A lightly-attended session at the 21st World Petroleum Congress (WPC) on Tuesday was told that while some initiatives have achieved progress in the last decade, companies need to put the issues higher up their agendas.
“We have 4000 people here [at WPC] but I do not hear a great deal about governance. I think we all know our industry is not particularly liked out there by many countries, by many stakeholders,” said Jonas Moberg, head of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global initiative to encourage governments to better manage natural resource revenues.
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