The instrument stays identifiable through change.
Licence names, blocks, contracts, concessions, boundaries and successor interests are resolved to a maintained record rather than treated as disconnected mentions.
Locus / African licence platform
Locus remembers what the market forgets.
A maintained institutional record of the individual mining, oil and gas licences that Extractive Insight covers—built to preserve identity, ownership, provenance and change over time.
The maintained record
A licence is not a row in a spreadsheet.
Its name may change. Its geometry can be varied. Interests can be transferred, diluted, carried, pledged or subject to state participation. Operatorship can move without the underlying interest moving with it.
Locus keeps the identity of the governing instrument intact while recording each of those changes against the evidence that supports it.
01Licence identityInstrument · boundaries · term · standing
02Interest chainHolder · control · participation · encumbrance
03Event historyOccurrence · knowledge · source · tier
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Architecture
The interest chain is more than a shareholder list.
Registered holder, participating interests, operatorship, carried interests, back-in rights, control, charges, pledges and competing claims remain distinct.
The current position keeps its history.
Renewals, extensions, variations, approvals, relinquishments, transfers and regulatory decisions are maintained as events, not overwritten by the latest state.
The source travels with the statement.
Every entry retains its named source and source tier wherever it appears, allowing conclusions to be checked and reused in institutional papers.
Two-date architecture
Every record carries when the event occurred—and when it became known to us.
The legal, commercial or administrative position changes.
The event becomes known to Extractive Insight through a named source.
What did the file show on the date the institution made its decision?
Historical reconstruction returns the file as it stood then—not today’s information retrospectively backdated.
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Institutional utility
Assessments
Begin with analysis rather than data assembly.
Watchlists
Identify what changed, not merely the current position.
Ratings
Compare exposure through visible factors and reasoning.
Disputes
Build chronologies on a contemporaneously maintained record.
Governance
Review decisions against what was known at the time.
Extracts
Receive sourced records in a form suited to the decision.
Staged client access
Locus already supports everything Extractive Insight delivers.
Direct client access will open in stages. The roadmap is explanatory; it is not presented as currently released functionality.
- 01Licence files and interest chains
- 02Watchlists and ratings
- 03Extracts on demand
Discuss an asset
Ask what the record showed then.
Bring us the named licence and the date that matters. We will confirm whether the asset is within coverage before we quote.
Discuss an asset