Natural Resources - Activity 2. OPEC

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1 Natural Resources - Activity 2. OPEC *** If you have not gone through the preparation of this topic yet, please click here. *** *** The red circle(s) on the screen shots indicate the location of the tool or button you must use. *** 1. Click this link. 2. This is the prepared map for this activity. Once the map is loaded, save this map in your Esri account using Save. 3. This map shows twelve OPEC countries and their oil related information such as percentage of total oil produced and exported in barrels per day. OPEC countries are Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. The data source is from the CIA Factbook 2007 and Esri. If you want to look at the actual dataset, click this link to download its excel file. The meaning of each field is explained in step # First, we will add a dashboard gadget to represent total oil exported of OPEC countries. Click the Dashboard tool on the main toolbar.

2 5. The Dashboard window will pop up. Click the Add Gadget button. 6. We will use the Gauge gadget for the opec layer. Then click OK.

3 7. Fill out Configure Gauge as the following. You might need to click the drop-down menus to select. Once you are done, click OK.

4 8. If you want to edit the gadget, click the Organize button. There are three options Remove, Drag to reorder, and Properties. If you click Properties, you can see Configure Gauge again (refer to step #7). Once you have finished editing your gadget, you need to click Done.

5 9. Let s figure out the total percentage of oil exported from OPEC countries. Click the Select Features tool. 10. Draw a box on the map. This may take some practice. Click a corner of the map with your left mouse button and hold the button down. With your finger still holding down the left mouse button, move to mouse diagonally to where you would like to place the opposite corner of the box. In this case, your box needs to include all OPEC countries, like this:

6 11. Twelve countries are now selected. You can see that their outlines turned to red. On the Gauge, you can see that the amount of oil exports of OPEC countries is only 44%. 12. Click anywhere on the map to unselect OPEC countries. Now the Gauge says no feature is selected, and the boundaries of countries turn to blue now.

7 13. When you click one of OPEC countries, you will see its pop-up window. There are sixteen fields on the pop-up. The following is explanation of each field. Field GMI_CNTRY Meaning Three letter code for the country or geographic entity from Global Mapping International CNTRY_NAME Country name in common use SQKM SQMI POP2007 GDP_USD GDP_PCAP OILPRD_BLD Area in square kilometers using an equal area projection Area in square miles using an equal area projection 2007 midyear population estimate (Source: US Census Bureau, International Division) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in US dollars GDP per capita in US dollars Total oil produced in barrels per day OILCON_BLD Total oil consumed in barrels per day OILIMP_BLD OILEXP_BLD OILRES_BBL OILPRD_PER OILCON_PER OILEXP_PER OILIMP_PER Total oil imported in barrels per day Total oil exported in barrels per day Stock of proved reserves of crude oil in barrels Percentage of total oil produced in barrels per day Percentage of total oil consumed in barrels per day Percentage of total oil exported in barrels per day Percentage of total oil imported in barrels per day

8 14. If you want, you can add the above field information in the Description gadget. To do so, click the + sign to add a new gadget, and then choose Description. In Configure Description, add that information in Caption.

9 15. Close Dashboard by clicking the x button, and then click Layers. You can make the dashboard appear again if you click the Dashboard tool on the main toolbar. 16. Now we will make a graduated color map of OPEC countries percentage of total oil exported in barrels per day. Click the details of the opec layer.

10 17. In the Layer Details window, click Configure in the row labeled Display. 18. Click the drop-down menu Single Symbol, and then choose Classify Using Color.

11 19. Set the Configure Display in the following ways. You need to click the drop-down menus for the Attribute and Classify using fields to choose: Attribute: OILEXP_PER (% of total oil exported in barrels per day) Classify using: Quantile (For more information about the classification methods, click here. ) Classes: 5 (Setting the number of classes determines the number of groups in which you will divide your data.) Then click Color Ramp. 20. Choose one of the sequential color schemes. For more information about the color schemes, click here. Then click the arrow button to go back to Configure Display.

12 21. Your map may look like the following: 22. You can make various thematic maps by selecting any field of the table in step #13 in the selection of the Attribute field. For example, if you choose the GDP_PCAP field, you can make a map to show GDP per capita for OPEC countries like the following:

13 Discussion questions o OPEC members export rate is only 44%. Can OPEC members control the price of world oil? Why or why not? o Are there any conflicts between OPEC and non-opec countries such as Russia, Norway, Mexico, Canada, and the UK? o Do all of the major oil exporting countries have high GDP per capita? If not, why are there variations between them? o What types of government does each OPEC country have?