The Global Oil & Gas Industry : Stories From the Field

The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Stories from the Field relates specific examples of challenges in decision making, changing business practices, and the difficulties in executing complex projects across the global industry. From contentious border disputes over mineral rights to the emergence of industry disrupters shaking the status quo, each story presents contemporary issues to distill lessons that are transferable to management challenges both inside and outside of the global oil and gas industry.

Bestselling PennWell authors Andrew Inkpen and Michael Moffett join with industry expert Kannan Ramaswamy to provide a narrative of 18 stories, each highlighting a different aspect of the industry. This collection provides an enriching, thought-provoking look into a business that many believe to be globally mature, but as these stories intimate, are increasingly local, emerging, and evolving with the global economy.

• Examples of the complex business situations in oil and gas and how excellent (and sometimes less-than-excellent) leaders navigate these difficult circumstances.
• Insights into the decision making of oil and gas companies from around the world
• Different themes that span the entire industry value chain: upstream, midstream, and downstream
• Timeless truths for the hydrocarbon sector and for many other businesses

Preface

Part I : Energy and Government
Chapter 1 : Enron and the Dabhol Power Company
Chapter 2 : Bolivia and the Pacific LNG Project
Chapter 3 : Kazakhstan’s Tengiz and Kashagan : A Tale of Two Projects
Chapter 4 : Dutch Natural Gas and the Groningen Field : The Creation of a New Industry

Part 2 : The Changing World of NOCs
Chapter 5 : Statoil’s Evolving Strategy
Chapter 6 : Mexico and Pemex
Chapter 7 : A Russian Rhapsody : The Rise and Fall of Gazprom
Chapter 8 : China’s National Oil Companies : Restructuring the Three Dragons
Chapter 9 : Nigeria and Reforming Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
Chapter 10 : The Rise and Fall of Petrobras

Part 3 : Contemporary Challenges in Global Oil and Gas
Chapter 11 : Shell and the Arctic
Chapter 12 : Australian LNG Megaprojects
Chapter 13 : ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell : The Tale of Two Projects in Sakhalin
Chapter 14 : TNK-BP (Russia)

Part 4 : The Disrupters
Chapter 15 : Ghana and Kosmos Energy
Chapter 16 : Mitchell Energy and the Shale Revolution
Chapter 17 : Reliance Industries (India) : Rewriting Strategy in the Downstream Business
Chapter 18 : Delta Airlines and the Trainer Refinery

Index
About the Authors