Oil and gas concessions

“Mining concession” refers to an area allocated by a government or other body for the extraction of minerals. The terminology for these areas varies from country to country. “Concession” is used as a general term for licenses, permits, or other contracts that confer rights to private companies to manage and extract minerals from public lands; terminology varies at the national level, however, and includes mineral or mining "permits," "tenures," "licenses," and other terms. This data set displays mining concessions as a single layer assembled by aggregating concession data for multiple countries. The data may come from government agencies, NGOs, or other organizations and vary by date and source. Only active or available concessions are included in this layer. Inactive or expired concessions are excluded as defined by the dataset source. As available, additional data source information is linked below: - Brazil - Cameroon - Cambodia - Colombia - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malaysia - Peru - Suriname - [Zambia](www.znsdi.net) If you are aware of concession data for additional countries, please email us [here](mailto:gnw@wri.org).  Displays boundaries of areas allocated by governments to companies for extraction of minerals

“Oil palm concession” refers to an area allocated by a government or other body for industrial-scale oil palm plantations. This data set displays oil palm concessions as a single layer assembled by aggregating concession data for multiple countries. The data may come from government agencies, NGOs, or other organizations and varies by date and data sources. Only active or available concessions are included in this layer. Inactive or expired concessions are excluded as defined by the dataset source. As available, additional data source information is linked below: - Cambodia - Cameroon - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malaysia  If you are aware of concession data for additional countries, please email us [here](mailto:gnw@wri.org). Displays boundaries of areas allocated by governments to companies for oil palm plantations.

Logging concessions refers to areas allocated by a government for harvesting timber and other wood products in a public forest. Logging concessions are distinct from wood fiber concessions, where tree plantations are established for the exclusive production of pulp and paper products. “Concession” is used as a general term for licenses, permits, or other contracts that confer rights to private companies to manage and extract timber and other wood products from public forests; terminology varies at the national level, however, and includes "forest permits," "tenures," "licenses," and other terms. This data set displays logging concessions as a single layer assembled by aggregating data for multiple countries. The data may come from government agencies, NGOs, or other organizations and varies by date and data sources. Only active or available concessions are included in this layer. Inactive or expired concessions are excluded as defined by the dataset source. As available: additional data source information is linked below: - [Cambodia]() - Cameroon - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Gabon - Liberia - Suriname If you are aware of concession data for additional countries, please email us [here](mailto:gnw@wri.org). Displays boundaries of forested areas allocated by governments to companies for harvesting timber and other wood products.

The data set contains areas with oil and gas deposits to which permits under Section 5(1) of the Underground Resources Exploitation Act have been extended for the purpose of abstraction. The dataset is updated ad hoc and exists as a shape file with polygons. The boundaries of contractually defined geographical coordinates based on ED 50. The dataset is projected in UTM zone 32N based on ED 50. Further information on the oil and gas deposits can be found in the Danish Energy Agency's annual reports on "Denmark's oil and gas production and other uses of the subsoil".

“Wood fiber concession” refers to an area allocated by a government or other body for establishment of fast-growing tree plantations for the production of timber and wood pulp for paper and paper products. This data set displays wood fiber concessions as a single layer assembled by aggregating concession data for multiple countries. The data may come from government agencies, NGOs, or other organizations and varies by date and source. As available, additional source information is linked below: - Cambodia - Malaysia If you are aware of concession data for additional countries, please email us [here](mailto:gnw@wri.org). Displays boundaries of areas allocated by governments to private companies for tree plantations for production of timber and wood pulp for paper and paper products.

The Rocchetta concession area, published by Regione Umbria SIAT as a feature layer under the regional landscape and territorial plan.