OpenOil blogs

Last month in Lagos, we brought together activists from the tech and oil worlds for a hackathon on the extractive industries of Nigeria. A hackathon, in the lexicon of computer geekery, is what... Read More – ‘Big Data decoding Big Oil: Nigerian corporate networks’.

This is what a small oil well in the Niger Delta looks like from space. Strange, isn’t it? We can’t see the rig, and in fact the most prominent feature from above is the produced water... Read More – ‘What does an oil well look like from space?’.

OpenOil is launching a project to map the corporate supply chain in the oil sector, combining Big Data techniques and collaboration with domain experts on the ground. We are piloting this approach in... Read More – ‘Call for contributions: next generation oil governance’.

Are you looking for a way into promoting transparency and public understanding of your country’s oil and gas contracts? At OpenOil we are looking for partners to work with across the world to... Read More – ‘OpenOil is looking for partners to analyse oil contracts around the world’.

The oil markets are feverish again because of events in Syria, Egypt and Libya. There is talk of $150 per barrel and dire predictions about what that all means for the future. But let’s take... Read More – ‘The price of oil: bad news for the Middle East (Jazeera)’.