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Oil and Gas Blocks

Details of the licenses of onshore and offshore oil and gas blocks as of 2015

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Data Resource Preview - Myanmar Oil and Gas Blocks

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Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Energy
  • Extractive industries
  • Extractive industries licensing and payments
  • Off-shore oil and gas exploration and extraction
  • Oil
  • Oil and gas resources
  • On-shore oil and gas exploration and extraction
Language
  • English
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Dataset reference date October 11, 2016
GeoNames
  • Myanmar
Positional Accuracy Among different data sources, only Global Witness include information on the area of oil and gas blocks. Hence the area of blocks that were not part of the Global Witness report were retrieved from polygons that were created in the Google Earth.
Logical Consistency There are no known issues with logical consistency.
Completeness Completeness of information on Areas was stated above. Some information that were not found in the references were stated as "not found".
Process Step Most recent data from were taken from 3 reference documents 1) Myanmar EITI Report 2015 2) Global Witness Report (The Shell Starts to Crack?) 2014 and 3) Myanmar Oil and Gas Sector-Wide Impact Assessment 2015 Triangulation was done. Most updated data was used if the data is found in more than one source. "Map showing recent block winners and responses to Global Witness survey" was uploaded onto Google Earth and the polygons were drawn around the blocks to get their geo locations, and to estimate the areas of the blocks. The kmz file was downloaded from Google Earth and then it is uploaded onto Carto to get a Carto map.
Lineage 1) Myanmar EITI Report 20152) Global Witness Report (The Shell Starts to Crack?) 2014 and 3) Myanmar Oil and Gas Sector-Wide Impact Assessment 2015
Responsible party Phandeeyar: Myanmar Innovation Lab, 11th Floor, "Mac Tower" Building, 561 Merchant Road, Yangon, 11181, Myanmar (Burma) Tel: 09 2600 72463 / 099 707 320 67 164 Email: opendevmm@phandeeyar.org Website: http://phandeeyar.org/
Metadata creator information Metadata last updated on 2016-09-05. For inquiries contact: Phandeeyar: Myanmar Innovation Lab, 11th Floor, "Mac Tower" Building, 561 Merchant Road, Yangon, 11181, Myanmar (Burma) Tel: 09 2600 72463 / 099 707 320 67 164 Email: opendevmm@phandeeyar.org Website: http://phandeeyar.org/
Attributes onshore_offshore - whether block is Onshore, Offshore, or Deep Water code_ref - standard reference code for the license block type_of_license company_1 company_1_origin company_2 company_2_origin other_companies - if there are more than 2 companies in the license, the rest are presented in the format: ["company_3","company_4",...] other_companies_origin - if there are more than 2 companies in the license, the rest are presented in the format: ["company_3_origin","company_4_origin",...] date_of_award - in DD-MM-YYYY format area_sq_km area_sq_miles location_region
License Creative Commons Attribution
Copyright To be determined
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Date uploaded October 11, 2016, 07:00 (UTC)
Date modified January 3, 2020, 05:12 (UTC)