How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing
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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2017
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Authors: | Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed ; Ahn, Daniel P. ; Baugh, Kimberly ; Do, Quy-Toan ; Elvidge, Christopher D. ; Hansen-Lewis, Jamie ; Shapiro, Jacob N. ; Zhizhin, Mikhail |
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2017: World Bank, Washington, DC |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 8231 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Iraq Middle East and North Africa Syrian Arab Republic English |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012569734
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