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license_id stringlengths 8 8	operator stringclasses 5 values	award_year int64 1.96k 2.02k	license_type stringclasses 3 values	acreage_km2 int64 101 5k
OML-0001	TotalEnergies	1,988	OGL	3,872
OML-0002	Eni	1,998	OPL	566
OML-0003	ExxonMobil	1,970	OML	3,271
OML-0004	ExxonMobil	1,981	OML	869
OML-0005	TotalEnergies	1,989	OPL	2,533
OML-0006	TotalEnergies	1,980	OML	4,655
OML-0007	Chevron	1,981	OML	4,943
OML-0008	Shell	2,008	OGL	1,182
OML-0009	Chevron	2,023	OGL	289
OML-0010	ExxonMobil	2,003	OGL	1,367
OML-0011	Shell	1,962	OML	3,990
OML-0012	Eni	1,968	OGL	2,535
OML-0013	Shell	2,019	OPL	341
OML-0014	Chevron	1,968	OPL	2,712
OML-0015	Chevron	1,979	OGL	1,578
OML-0016	TotalEnergies	2,020	OGL	134
OML-0017	Shell	1,995	OPL	4,043
OML-0018	TotalEnergies	1,961	OPL	3,561
OML-0019	Chevron	1,963	OPL	1,600
OML-0020	Chevron	1,985	OPL	4,397
OML-0021	TotalEnergies	1,973	OGL	3,442
OML-0022	TotalEnergies	2,016	OPL	437
OML-0023	Eni	1,983	OPL	4,959
OML-0024	TotalEnergies	2,019	OML	2,162
OML-0025	Eni	1,960	OML	2,668
OML-0026	Shell	2,003	OGL	491
OML-0027	ExxonMobil	1,994	OML	4,574
OML-0028	Eni	2,001	OGL	3,199
OML-0029	Shell	1,967	OPL	3,204
OML-0030	Eni	1,994	OPL	1,670
OML-0031	Shell	1,994	OML	2,790
OML-0032	Shell	1,964	OPL	602
OML-0033	ExxonMobil	1,968	OGL	1,584
OML-0034	ExxonMobil	2,022	OGL	663
OML-0035	Eni	1,991	OPL	1,778
OML-0036	ExxonMobil	1,988	OML	1,822
OML-0037	ExxonMobil	1,981	OPL	2,829
OML-0038	Eni	2,021	OML	3,160
OML-0039	TotalEnergies	1,987	OPL	2,081
OML-0040	ExxonMobil	2,023	OPL	2,138
OML-0041	TotalEnergies	1,984	OGL	2,337
OML-0042	Shell	1,960	OML	1,406
OML-0043	Shell	2,011	OML	1,382
OML-0044	ExxonMobil	1,968	OPL	3,848
OML-0045	Shell	2,010	OPL	4,879
OML-0046	ExxonMobil	2,013	OML	3,863
OML-0047	Shell	2,021	OML	4,759
OML-0048	TotalEnergies	2,021	OGL	3,557
OML-0049	ExxonMobil	2,008	OML	3,796
OML-0050	Shell	2,018	OML	4,197
OML-0051	Chevron	1,987	OPL	954
OML-0052	Eni	1,991	OML	3,574
OML-0053	Chevron	2,012	OPL	1,833
OML-0054	TotalEnergies	2,014	OGL	3,355
OML-0055	ExxonMobil	1,976	OGL	4,489
OML-0056	Eni	2,011	OPL	297
OML-0057	ExxonMobil	2,022	OML	3,372
OML-0058	TotalEnergies	2,018	OPL	2,611
OML-0059	Eni	1,962	OGL	1,469
OML-0060	ExxonMobil	2,022	OGL	3,319
OML-0061	TotalEnergies	2,000	OML	2,059
OML-0062	Chevron	1,999	OML	1,902
OML-0063	TotalEnergies	2,016	OML	4,161
OML-0064	Chevron	1,994	OGL	723
OML-0065	Shell	2,011	OML	2,149
OML-0066	Shell	2,007	OPL	3,823
OML-0067	Eni	1,996	OGL	2,156
OML-0068	Shell	1,994	OGL	2,355
OML-0069	ExxonMobil	1,979	OPL	3,291
OML-0070	Shell	1,983	OGL	1,748
OML-0071	TotalEnergies	1,997	OPL	3,283
OML-0072	Shell	1,994	OML	3,061
OML-0073	Chevron	1,961	OPL	3,334
OML-0074	Eni	2,000	OML	4,593
OML-0075	Eni	2,007	OGL	1,318
OML-0076	Shell	2,023	OML	2,835
OML-0077	TotalEnergies	2,018	OGL	4,665
OML-0078	Eni	2,010	OPL	3,454
OML-0079	ExxonMobil	1,993	OML	4,993
OML-0080	Shell	1,987	OGL	1,059
OML-0081	Shell	1,964	OML	915
OML-0082	ExxonMobil	1,963	OGL	3,220
OML-0083	Shell	2,003	OPL	2,624
OML-0084	Eni	1,965	OGL	1,160
OML-0085	Eni	2,008	OPL	4,376
OML-0086	ExxonMobil	2,019	OML	1,239
OML-0087	Eni	1,980	OGL	1,284
OML-0088	ExxonMobil	2,023	OPL	1,916
OML-0089	Chevron	1,990	OPL	669
OML-0090	ExxonMobil	1,999	OPL	3,963
OML-0091	Chevron	1,991	OGL	3,001
OML-0092	Chevron	2,022	OGL	2,637
OML-0093	Chevron	1,985	OML	3,275
OML-0094	Shell	1,968	OGL	4,441
OML-0095	Eni	2,001	OGL	637
OML-0096	ExxonMobil	2,009	OML	2,555
OML-0097	Eni	2,019	OPL	3,050
OML-0098	Shell	1,995	OML	4,215
OML-0099	Shell	1,967	OPL	4,595
OML-0100	TotalEnergies	2,010	OGL	1,266

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⚠️ Synthetic dataset — Parameterized from published SSA literature, not real observations. Not suitable for empirical analysis or policy inference.

Nigerian Oilgas Licenses

Dataset Description

This dataset is part of the Nigerian Oil & Gas Sector collection, containing comprehensive data on Nigeria's petroleum industry from 1999-2025.

Rows: 1,000
Columns: 5
Period: 1999-2025 (where applicable)
License: MIT

Data Quality

1999-2014: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Based on official NEITI data
2015-2025: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Validated synthetic (OPEC/NNPC sources)

Schema

Column	Type	Sample
`license_id`	object	OML-0001
`operator`	object	TotalEnergies
`award_year`	int64	1988
`license_type`	object	OGL
`acreage_km2`	int64	3872

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/nigerian_oilgas_licenses")
df = dataset['train'].to_pandas()

Citation

@dataset{nigerian_oilgas_2025,
  title = {Nigerian Oil & Gas Sector Datasets},
  author = {Electric Sheep Africa},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/nigerian_oilgas_licenses}
}

Collection

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Nigeria Oil & Gas Sector

Collection

35 datasets on Nigeria's oil & gas: production, pricing, infrastructure, environmental, operators & trade (1999-2025). 100K+ rows. • 35 items • Updated Oct 14, 2025