UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Source: data.gov.uk (2021-09-09)

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is an international standard for openness around the management of revenues from natural resources. It is designed to improve accountability and public trust for the revenues paid and received for a country’s oil, gas and mineral resources.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) reports covering payments and data for the UK extractives sector and a reconciliation of payments made by oil, gas, mining and quarrying companies for the UK extraction of raw materials and government receipts are now available on the [UK EITI website](https://www.ukeiti.org/about-us).

To access the data via the [UK EITI website](https://www.ukeiti.org/publications-reports), please put a tick in the “UK EITI Reports” box and click on the “Filter” box. Each UK EITI payments report will be listed. When you double click on the report title a list of the related data will also be listed and accessible.

UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative 
(UK EITI) report 2016: supplementary information 
Please note that the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) would like to add the following 
supplementary information to complement the 3rd UK EITI report: 
• The sectoral background information contained within the report draws on the 
best data available to the Multi Stakeholder Group. There are instances, 
particularly with regard to mineral production and export data, where the UK 
authorities have recently taken the view that collection and publication of data 
are no longer cost effective. The report strives nonetheless to provide as full a 
picture of each sector as it is feasible to do. 
• While the EITI Standard anticipates inclusion of details of licence application 
dates the petroleum licensing authorities, currently the Oil and Gas Authority 
(OGA), have not routinely collected such information. Almost all oil and gas 
licences are awarded following ‘Rounds’ which have a pre-determined 
opening and closing date. It can obviously be assumed that an application for 
a licence awarded following any given Round will have been received at some 
point between that Round’s opening and closing dates.  
• The UK government does not own upstream oil and gas pipelines. Operators 
require a pipeline works authorisation under the Petroleum Act 1998 for the 
construction and/or use of pipelines. There is an administrative charge 
payable to the OGA for issuing Pipeline Works Authorisations (PWAs) – the 
amount depends how many person days it takes to process the application. 
• There is no recurrent annual rental fee for petroleum licences in Northern 
Ireland, which is why payments to the Department for the Economy are not 
included as a revenue stream. 
• The UK EITI web page www.gov.uk/government/publications/extractive-
industries-transparency-initiative-payments-report-2016  and data.gov.uk 
website https://data.gov.uk/dataset/1ce0afa8-fade-4333-9983-
32b3cb4a87e3/uk-extractive-industries-transparency-initiative-eiti both contain 
CSV data files that are more comprehensive and often more up-to-date than 
the data in the tables and charts in the 2016 UK EITI report. The CSV files are 
also revised and updated periodically.