Topic: extractive industries

Shale gas production is changing the global energy picture. WRI analysis is helping to clarify the challenges and opportunities of this complex energy source.

This paper originally appeared on the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group website. The full text of the paper is available here.

The following Q&A and photo essay originally appeared on allAfrica.com, and are reposted with permission.

This timeline provides a wide-ranging review of the decisions, policies, participants and events that formed the backdrop to the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This timeline is intended to serve as a resource and reference tool for policymakers, academics and journalists interested in a larger accounting of the oil drilling governance and regulatory system, going back to 1978.

Do the revised reporting guidelines for the oil and gas industry go far enough?

This working paper examines whether new rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could help bring transparency to Uganda’s oil industry.