Three Steps Offshore Drillers Must Take Now
By rethinking their business and making bold moves today, offshore drillers can position themselves for healthy returns when the industry’s clouds finally lift.
By rethinking their business and making bold moves today, offshore drillers can position themselves for healthy returns when the industry’s clouds finally lift.
By tailoring an incremental approach to their constraints and opportunities, upstream players can reduce their carbon footprint while limiting any negative economic impact.
Many companies fail to capture key benefits of replicating equipment and processes in a virtual environment. Taking these steps is essential to success.
Seven imperatives hold the key to succeeding with digital transformation at scale.
It’s a half-trillion-dollar liability that will only grow over time. Leading operators in each basin must decide on a strategy and work with their suppliers to put it into action.
Oil and gas operators and governments have announced ambitious plans to reduce abandonment expenses. To make it happen, they need to orchestrate a multifaceted approach.
Thousands of wells and structures in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and West Africa are nearing obsolescence. Governments must prepare for the massive decommissioning task ahead.
The US gas market is seeing a raft of bullish price forecasts—but appearances can be deceiving.
In light of the pandemic and the supply shock in oil markets, gas companies must strengthen their positions and plan ahead.
Beijing’s decision to create a single national pipeline company will open up significant opportunities for global gas players.
This report, coproduced by BCG and the International Gas Union, assesses recent trends shaping today’s global gas industry and the factors that will affect the market in the future.
In a rapidly changing world, supply chains are faced with an ever-expanding set of risks and uncertainties. Downstream oil and gas supply chains in particular face unprecedented disruptions arising from structural complexities and a changing ecosystem. This publication with Indian Oil (India's largest refiner and oil marketing company) is a deep-dive into the key risk drivers for oil and gas supply chains and the benefits of resilience. It also provides a framework for building resilient supply chains illustrated through detailed case studies.
While the global energy system is witnessing progressive transformation , the report focuses on the various challenges that global oil and gas firms are facing which are questioning the sector’s business operations. However it tries to present some possible solutions to meet the growing global energy demand with reduced emissions; some options that companies may consider as they prepare to be part of a world with net zero emissions by 2050.
While the Indian Power Sector recently achieved the distinguished feat of 100 percent household electrification, ensuring cheap and reliable power 24X7 to all its consumers is a great challenge. Despite making significant progress, long power cuts are still the norm for select states and districts in India. In this backdrop, emerging technologies pertaining to distributed energy systems are gaining momentum across the country. While such systems have the potential to empower customers to move towards self-sufficiency, they are also perceived as a significant threat by DISCOMs.
The Indian power sector is evolving rapidly through changes in regulations, demand and technology. While the sector has seen strong growth and improved accessibility, challenges still remain across the value chain. Generating assets are increasingly faced with margin pressures owing to raw material volatility (for thermal assets) and increased competition (for renewables).
India’s economic growth is linked to the fortunes of the energy sector
Attractive opportunities in storage stand to emerge soon. For smart investors, the rewards could be sizable.
Against a rapidly evolving financial and operating backdrop, midstream oil and gas players must rethink how they do business.
The change in maritime fuel regulation is scheduled to take effect within months. But stakeholders still have time to act.
The new sulfur regulations for marine fuel will disrupt the refining industry. By taking action now, refiners can limit the downside—or even emerge as winners.
Powerful forces—including the rise of electric vehicles and changing consumer expectations—are buffeting fuel retailers. Companies must adapt or risk becoming irrelevant.
Deregulation is creating attractive opportunities in Mexico’s fuels market, both in the provision of infrastructure and in fuel sales and supply.
By making smart moves and adopting the right business model, companies can mitigate the risks and capture the upside of digitization.
Blockchain might not be the panacea some anticipate. But the hype surrounding it could drive attention and solutions to the problems that plague commodity trading.
Digital forces are transforming commodity trading’s value chain and sources of competitive advantage, redistributing billions of dollars in trading value in the process.
