10th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Sub-Sahara and MENA Region

The 10th Regional JODI Training Workshop was held from the 23th - 25th of November 2014 in Doha, Qatar. The Workshop was hosted by the Gas Exporting Countries Forum with the support of the JODI partners: APEC, Eurostat, IEA, IEF, OPEC, OLADE, and UNSD. The objective of the workshop is to enhance JODI-Oil data quality and continue to strengthen JODI-Gas, which was publically-launched this past May at the 14th International Energy Forum Ministerial in Moscow. The Workshop gathered for some 25 participants from 20 countries, mainly from the Sub-Saharan Africa region, who are in charge of hydrocarbon data collection at national administrations and who participate in the collection and dissemination of JODI data. The Workshop will cover the following topics:

• A briefing on the background, status and objectives of JODI-Oil and JODI-Gas;
• Training on the JODI-Gas questionnaire and the extended JODI-Oil questionnaire;
• An overview on perspectives of data users (how JODI data are used);
• An open discussion on good practices regarding oil and gas data collection;
• A review of data quality assessment techniques, with practical exercises for both JODI-Oil and JODI-Gas.

Presentations

• African Energy Data Collection Activities
• Importance of Energy Commodity Data Transparency
• The Joint Organisations Data Initiative
• The Extended JODI-Oil Questionnaire and JODI-Oil Manual 2nd Edition
• JODI-Oil Data Quality Assessment
• Use of JODI Data in Energy Modeling
• Extending JODI to Natural Gas
• JODI-Gas Questionnaire and JODI-Gas Manual
• JODI-Gas Data Quality Assessment
• Increasing Energy Data Transparency
• How to gather relevant data from oil and gas supply chains? – Introduction of initiatives by Oslo City Group

Previous JODI Training Workshops

• 9th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Central Asia and MENA Region
  25-27 February 2014
• 8th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Asia and Pacific Region
  28-30 October 2013
• 7th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Middle East and North Africa
  8-10 October 2012
• 6th JODI Training Workshop for Latin American Countries
  26-28 July 2010
• 5th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Caspian, Central Asia and East European Countries
  18-20 November 2009
• 4th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Asia Pacific Countries
  10-12 September 2008
• 3rd JODI Training Workshop for Middle Eastern and North African Countries
  26 October 2007
• 2nd Regional JODI Training Workshop for Sub-Saharan African Countries
  31 January 2007
• JODI Training Workshop for Latin American Countries
  14-18 August 2006