Terms of Service

Who we are

Oilscope is an independent map and data service about Nigeria's oil and gas sector, based in Lagos, Nigeria. In these terms, “we” means Oilscope and “you” means anyone who uses the website, the map or the data. By using Oilscope you accept these terms. Questions: clementinaags1@gmail.com.

What the data is, and is not

Oilscope compiles public sources: OpenStreetMap, Global Energy Monitor, Wikidata, the NOSDRA oil spill register, NASA satellite detections and the US EIA. We match, check and grade these records, but we do not visit sites and we cannot guarantee that any record is complete, current or correct. Nothing on Oilscope is official data, and nothing on it is investment, legal, safety or engineering advice.

Use the data as a starting point and confirm anything important with the operator or the regulator before you rely on it. Each record shows its sources and a verification level; see Data & methods.

Free use

Anyone may use the free map and the public pages. On the free map, sites are shown as blurred areas. You may share screenshots of the public pages with a credit to Oilscope.

Paid plans and licences

Pro and Business are monthly subscriptions, priced in US dollars on the Pricing page and paid by card through Paystack. Enterprise is agreed in writing.

• A licence key is for the person or organisation that bought it. Pro works on up to 3 devices and Business on up to 5.
• Each plan includes a number of exported rows a month. Unused rows do not carry over.
• Your plan runs for the month you paid for. If you cancel, it continues to the end of that month and then stops. We do not refund part-months, except where the law requires it.
• We may change prices for future months. We will tell paying customers by email at least 30 days before a change affects them.

What you may not do

• Resell, republish or give away the paid data, or exports of it, in bulk, or use it to build a competing product.
• Share a licence key beyond its device limit, or try to get around the limits, the blurring or the export counts.
• Copy the data automatically (scraping), overload the service, or try to break into it.

Paid data carries an invisible mark that identifies the licence it was delivered to, so a leaked copy can be traced. If these rules are broken we may suspend the licence without a refund.

Credit to the sources

The underlying data belongs to its sources and keeps their licences: OpenStreetMap under the Open Database License (ODbL), Global Energy Monitor under CC BY 4.0, Wikidata under CC0. Where you publish material that uses Oilscope data, credit Oilscope and the original sources. Base maps are © their providers as credited on the map.

Availability and liability

We work to keep Oilscope available and correct, but it is provided as it is, without warranties. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for losses that come from using or relying on it, and our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Changes and law

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version; if a change matters to paying customers, we will email them. These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the courts of Lagos State have jurisdiction.