Respondent universe
Owners, directors, executives, managers and specialists with sufficient knowledge of their organisation’s petroleum operations.
PMP / METHODOLOGY / South Africa
Transparent by design.
Clear definitions, stable questions and disciplined confidentiality are essential to the credibility of every published reading.
Survey structure
Eligibility confirmation, permanent industry core, primary-sector conditions, current-quarter special topic, outlook and optional commentary.
Confidentiality
Identity and analytical responses are separated wherever practicable. No identifiable company cross-tabs are published. Public sector cuts are suppressed below five responses, with seven or more preferred for interpretation.
Scoring
Canonical index calculations take place outside the collection form so methodology can be versioned, audited and consistently reapplied.
Response integrity
One primary response is retained per organisation, sector and quarter. Potential duplicates are reviewed using organisation and work-email-domain signals before analysis.
Panel separation
The operator headline panel is analysed separately from demand-side commercial and fleet users and from ecosystem, advisory, finance, regulator and industry-body respondents.
Limitations
Every edition will disclose fieldwork dates, sample composition, weighting, panel composition, data suppression, revisions and material limitations.