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. Features and Benefits: 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 Contents: Enron and the Dabhol Power Company Bolivia and the Pacific LNG Project Kazakhstan’s Tengiz and Kashagan: A Tale of Two Projects Dutch Natural Gas and the Groningen Field: The Creation of a New Industry Statoil’s Evolving Strategy Mexico and Pemex A Russian Rhapsody: The Rise and Fall of Gazprom China’s National Oil Companies: Restructuring the Three Dragons Nigeria and Reforming Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation The Rise and Fall of Petrobras Shell and the Arctic Australian LNG Megaprojects ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell: The Tale of Two Projects in Sakhalin TNK-BP (Russia) Ghana and Kosmos Energy Mitchell Energy and the Shale Revolution Reliance Industries (India): Rewriting Strategy in the Downstream Business Delta Airlines and the Trainer Refinery 390 pages Read more