Covering Extractives is a new, free, online multimedia guide for journalists reporting on the oil, gas and mining sectors. Read why we created it, and what it covers.
ResourceProjects.org contains data on more than $240 billion in oil, gas and mining payments to governments in 2019 alone. With a new data layout and updated company and country pages, users can quickly find out how much (or little) a company is paying in taxes, royalties, production entitlements and more on a mine or oil block, and to which specific government entities.
Due to the pandemic and falling oil prices, Latin American countries are considering giving tax breaks to maintain investment in their projects. The author of this post explains why this may not be a good solution.
Luego de la pandemia y la caída de precios, los países de América Latina están considerando otorgar exenciones fiscales para mantener la inversión de las empresas en sus propios proyectos. Esta publicación explica por qué esta puede no ser una buena medida.
In the aftermath of the pandemic and falling oil prices, Algeria is considering giving tax breaks to maintain investment in its projects. The author of this posts suggests that there are better alternatives for the country.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, experts predict Africa’s economy will shrink for the first time in over 25 years. For the continent’s oil- and gas-rich countries the impact of the pandemic coincided with and exacerbated a global drop in oil prices.
La République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) a fait des progrès significatifs en matière de divulgation des contrats extractifs. On aurait donc pensé qu’elle serait en bonne voie pour devenir l’un des pays modèles en Afrique subsaharienne en la matière.
