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This document is part of the source library for NRGI's 2017 Resource Governance Index, a comprehensive measure of the quality of natural resource governance in oil, gas and mineral-rich countries. To access the full dataset and all other index resources, visit https://resourcegovernanceindex.org.

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Field Value
Sector Oil and Gas
Country Bangladesh
Year 2016
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Open data
Document Type Web Page
RGI Sub-component Licensing
RGI Questions 1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?,
1.1.6c: From 2015 onwards, and after each licensing process, did the licensing authority actually disclose the list of areas/blocks allocated?,
1.1.2d: Does the publicly available registry of licenses/contracts give the names of companies that hold an interest in a given area/block?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring? Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice Practice
Publisher Govt. of Bangladesh
Author Govt. of Bangladesh
Source or API link http://bomd.gov.bd/en_US/page/details/4
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email Natural Resource Governance Institute