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[IWS] OIL & GAS COMPANIES' REVENUE TRANSPARENCY 2011 REPORT

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor----------------------
Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Transparency International

 

Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2011 Report on Oil and Gas Companies

http://www.transparency.org/publications/publications/other/prt_2011

or

http://www.transparency.org/content/download/59374/951162/TI_PRT_2011_report_FINAL_EN.pdf

[full-text, 65 pages]

 

The Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2011 Report on Oil and Gas Companies, published by Transparency International in partnership with Revenue Watch, rates 44 companies on their levels of transparency. Representing 60 per cent of global oil and gas production, the companies are evaluated in three areas: reporting on anti-corruption programmes, organisational disclosure and country-level disclosure of financial and technical data.

 

CONTENTS

MAJOR RESULTS 2

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4

1. Why transparency in the oil and gas sector matters 5

2. Methodology 6

3. Major findings 7

4. Key policy recommendations 8

RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS 12

1. General results 12

2. Reporting on anti-corruption programmes (section 1) 14

3. Organisational disclosure (section 2) 22

4. Country-level disclosure (section 3) 30

5. National oil company specific (section 4) 43

6. Cross-section analysis 48

8. 2011 vs. 2008 results 51

CONCLUSION 52

ANNEXES 53

Annex 1 - History of the project 53

Annex 2 – Methodology and questionnaire guide 55

Annex 3 – Building a ‘perfect score company’ 65

Annex 4 – Country-level disclosure on domestic operations 70

Annex 5 - Data tables with sources 73

Annex 6 – Data sharing with companies - an example of a data set 110

Annex 7 – Oil and gas industry background relevant to the PRT report 113

LIST OF TABLES AND DIAGRAMS 118

BIBLIOGRAPHY 119

END NOTES

 

 

 



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Institute for Workplace Studies 
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New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
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