9th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Central Asia and MENA Region

The aim of the workshop is to enhance JODI-Oil data quality and set the groundwork for JODI-Gas, which will be launched during the first half of 2014. The Workshop is designed for 30 to 40 participants, mainly from the Central Asian and MENA 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 covered the following topics:

• A briefing on the background, status and objectives of JODI-Oil and JODI-Gas;
• Training on the extended JODI-Oil questionnaire;
• An overview on data user perspectives (findings from the latest JODI-Oil user survey);
• 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

• Importance of energy commodity data transparency
• The Joint Organisations Data Initiative
• The Extended JODI-Oil Questionnaire and JODI-Oil Manual 2nd Edition
• Data Quality Assessment
• Extending JODI to natural gas
• JODI-Gas Questionnaire and JODI-Gas Manual
• JODI-Gas Data Quality Assessment
• Increasing Transparency of Oil and Energy Data

Previous JODI Training Workshops

• 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