{"id":919,"date":"2011-03-02T21:14:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2011-03-02T21:14:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:14:50","slug":"quelle-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/919\/","title":{"rendered":"Quelle Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstreamonline.com\/live\/article246603.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Upstream Online<\/em><\/a>, several huge surprises in one article.\u00a0 The first:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nigeria&#8217;s state oil company had the poorest transparency record of 44 national    and international energy companies evaluated in a report published by    international watchdogs this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Transparency International (TI) and Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) rated a list    of oil and gas companies, which represent 60% of global output, on how they    reported revenues and disclosed information on anti-corruption programmes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was the only company to  score    zero on organisational information disclosure, which included  the provision    details of deals agreed with governments and partners  on energy projects.    The average score was 65%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report, released this week and based on research carried out in 2010,    showed that publicly listed companies score better than non-listed ones,    while international oil companies fare better than national oil entities,    according to Reuters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The third:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NNPC was among eight companies, including Angolan state oil company Sonangol    and Russia&#8217;s gas export monopoly Gazprom , to score 0% on reporting    anti-corruption programmes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gazprom?\u00a0 Nooooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Upstream Online, several huge surprises in one article.\u00a0 The first: Nigeria&#8217;s state oil company had the poorest transparency record of 44 national and international energy companies evaluated in a report published by international watchdogs this week. &#8230; Transparency International &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/919\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}