Values

OpenOil was founded in the belief that creative, practical and socially progressive policy making in the oil and gas industries is both vital to our collective future, and possible within current constraints. Yes, our continued addiction to hydrocarbons is a bad idea. And yes we need to get much more serious about renewables. But even more »

OpenOil in the press

April 2013 OpenOil archive to promote oil and gas industry transparency – Egypt Independent Lifting the lid on extraction – Executive Magazine, Lebanon March 2013 Transparency is not enough – The Executive Magazine, Lebanon Yeni Sayt – Open Oil (az) - Voice of America, Azerbaijan New Online Resource – Azerbaijan Oil Wiki - Turan Information Agency February more »

OpenOil blogs

We regularly blog on a number of topics, based on our research and our experiences travelling. To be kept up to date, sign up to the RSS feed.  

Blogs

Sudan’s gold rush – state-inspired?

on May 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

The army medical orderly tells me he has seen men die in front of him, crushed by wells that collapsed in the middle of Sudan’s desert. And in the next breath he tells me if I have any money to invest, he’ll join me to dig for gold in Kordofan: “All we need are a more »


An open letter to the Mozambican government

on May 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

Following is an open letter to Esperanca Bias, Mozambique’s Minister of Resources, on the occasion of Mozambique’s accession to the EITI mechanism. It is jointly signed by OpenOil and the Center for Pubic Integrity, a research institute and NGO based in Maputo. Dear Minister Bias, This year, 2013, is of unprecedented importance in ensuring good more »


Oil and corruption in Uganda: the foreign donors’ plight

on May 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

If this had been the UN, we might have sent a strongly worded statement to the Norwegians. They were absent from a forum in the heart of Africa on the corrupting effects of oil, an affliction for which Norway, more than any other nation, seemingly knows the cure. It wasn’t the UN – it was more »


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