Petrowatch

Article summary

Petrowatch is an English-language market intelligence newsletter on the Indian oil industry, published uninterrupted since February 1997. Petrowatch has been cited by the BBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes India, and the Financial Times for its coverage of the Indian oil industry, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board. In addition, Petrowatch has been cited several times by Japanese investment bank Nomura, most recently in its India Gas Report published in February 2015 on Liquefied Natural Gas importer Petronet LNG.

Key claims

1. publication date: 1997 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. publication date: 2015 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the publication date is "1997". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the publication date is "2015". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358766653