Join Organisations Data Initiative (JODI)

=Overview=

Something of a rough diamond with much room for improvement, the JODI publicly available database is nevertheless an interesting exercise in harmonising global energy statistics. It was launched in 2001 as the brainchild of six organisations, including the IEA, OPEC and the UN Statistical Department, who often sit on different sides of the oil and gas industry. They got together at a conference in Saudi Arabia to put streamline their methodologies and pool data they each held for respective member countries. The goal was to raise awareness of the lack of transparent and reliable energy statistics against a backdrop of volatility in oil markets through the 1990s. This eventually formed the basis for the platform we see today. Since 2005 the project has been in the hands of the Saudi-based International Energy Forum (IEF), the world's largest gathering of energy ministers.

There are incomplete data sets and questions over data reliability. But the architecture of the site presents data in a variety of chart types and is flexible enough to allow customised reports, downloadable in text files, CSV files or on the Beyond 20/20 platform. There are also options to consult the metadata on each data set.

http://www.jodidata.org/