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Energy Sector Reforms in Mexico: A Catch 22 14 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
Whatever changes Mexico’s energy sector will take, they will be radical compared to the status quo. At least this is what one might think, having followed Mexico`s energy reform debate since 2008 and ...
So what exactly stops Kenya publishing its contracts? 5 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
The World Bank has just recommended among other things that Kenya should publish its oil and gas contracts. The government could modify the terms of its contracts, said the consultants from Challenge ...
Briefing 1 of 5: South Sudan’s extractive industries in ten minutes 23 Jul 2013 | 08:01 pm
OpenOil and Cordaid are publishing a series of policy briefs about the oil, gas and mining industries of South Sudan, Colombia, DR Congo, Guatemala and Nigeria. The briefs are written for the people d...
Society and revolution in Libya: can young people make the oil industry better? 5 Jul 2013 | 04:02 pm
Young people started Libya’s revolution, young people fought and young people finished it. Now, almost two years after Tripoli’s liberation, their role in this new nation they helped create is unclear...
Egypt: when is a subsidy not a subsidy? 14 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm
Energy subsidies are without doubt one of the main problems of Egypt`s ailing economy. Officially accounting for 20 percent of Egypt’s budget, the government has proposed a long list of subsidy reform...
The EITI and Zombie Transparency: what next for Azerbaijan? 31 May 2013 | 11:28 am
One of my favourite catchphrases thrown around last week at the sixth EITI global conference was ‘zombie transparency’. Not a reference to jetlagged scenes over EITI Board meetings, as suggested by on...
Saudi Arabia needs to reform its energy subsidies, but how? 27 May 2013 | 06:44 pm
I was somehow surprised when Saudi Arabia’s Economy and Planning Minister Mohammed al-Jasser announced last week that their rock-bottom fuel prices, some of the lowest in the world, are after all a se...
Sudan’s gold rush – state-inspired? 23 May 2013 | 03:18 pm
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...
An open letter to the Mozambican government 22 May 2013 | 11:12 am
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 P...
Oil and corruption in Uganda: the foreign donors’ plight 17 May 2013 | 05:45 pm
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 whic...
