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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing / Quy-Toan Do.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Do, Quy-Toan.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conflict and Development.
- Conflict and Fragile States.
- Energy.
- Flaring.
- ISIS.
- Islamic State.
- Oil.
- Oil Production.
- Oil Revenue.
- Remote Sensing.
- Local Subjects:
- Conflict and Development.
- Conflict and Fragile States.
- Energy.
- Flaring.
- ISIS.
- Islamic State.
- Oil.
- Oil Production.
- Oil Revenue.
- Remote Sensing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 pages)
- Other Title:
- How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing?
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2017.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Accurately measuring oil production in low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist organizations and insurgencies-including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh-tap oil as a revenue source. Understanding spatial and temporal variation in production in their territory can help address such threats by providing near real-time monitoring of their revenue streams, helping to assess long-term economic potential, and informing reconstruction strategies. More broadly, remotely measuring extractive industry activity in conflict-affected areas and other regions without reliable administrative data can support a broad range of public policy decisions and academic research. This paper uses satellite multi-spectral imaging and ground-truth pre-war output data to effectively construct a real-time day-to-day census of oil production in areas controlled by the terrorist group. The estimates of production levels were approximately 56,000 barrels per day (bpd) from July-December 2014, drop to an average of 35,000 bpd throughout 2015, before dropping further to approximately 16,000 bpd in 2016.
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