Power and utilities sector investors expect higher prices and more volatility. As they invest in an undervalued sector, they want greater transparency on companies’ energy transition plans.
Companies that historically have focused on oil and gas production can evolve their businesses to meet net-zero challenges.
The next ten years will determine the winners and losers in the refining business. Here’s what industry participants can do to prepare—and succeed.
Digital, EVs and alternative fuels, new mobility models, changing customer habits: to thrive amid these new challenges, fuel retailers must create new value pools.
Key stakeholders believe that oil prices will remain high in the short term. They also think that companies need to plan for the transition to cleaner energy.
These strategic steps can help companies in developed and developing countries alike realize their decarbonization commitments.
To successfully adapt their HR strategies and operating models for a decarbonizing world, companies must ensure that the new approaches make sense for all parts of the organization.
By building a durable competitive advantage in emerging climate-friendly tech, US players can unlock a huge global market.
Expanded use of low-carbon hydrogen and the fuels derived from it is critical to slowing global warming. Can we develop the renewable energy needed to make them?
The green revolution is taking off, but the transition must be managed thoughtfully to be as fair and inclusive as possible. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get it right.
In this series, we examine the disruptive forces that are bearing down on business leaders today, so that they can understand where opportunities exist amid the uncertainty.
Digital tools enabled by advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning can help companies uncover the fastest and most effective path to abating the O&G industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to reduce companies’ greenhouse gas emissions and cut costs by monitoring their carbon footprint and then reducing it through increased efficiency.
Shell and BCG Digital Ventures have paired numerous times to reimagine the future and, in the process, have incubated and launched several new businesses. MachineMax, which evolved from an initiative whose initial aim was to find new applications for Shell lubricants, provides an answer to a critical challenge facing the mining and construction industries: how to maximize the productivity of their equipment.
The pandemic and a host of social crises over the past 18 months have put a much-needed spotlight on the important role the corporate community can play in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. CEOs were truly moved to do more.
Although the oil and gas industry has made significant progress toward greater diversity, much remains to be done to gain the performance and productivity benefits that a diverse workforce provides.
BCG's Tina Zuzek demonstrates how companies can retain their best female employees.
BCG's Alan Thomson speaks to the tangible benefits of gender balance in the workplace.
Chasing new ways to manage volatility, advance sustainability, and build resilience can boost individual companies and benefit the broader business ecosystem.
Data-driven transparency provides the basis for setting performance targets, designing and implementing collaborative vendor development programs, and activating the broader business ecosystem.
As electricity markets become more volatile, the value of using energy flexibly is increasing. Companies can take four practical actions to create advantage.
Faced with an unprecedented crisis, operators should use a dual approach that supports suppliers and embraces strategic partnerships.
BCG’s Patrick Herhold and ACWA Power’s Paddy Padmanathan discuss what increasingly expensive fossil fuels and rapidly accelerating green technologies mean for the public and private sectors.
BCG's Kesh Mudaly and the Environmental Defense Fund's Mandy Rambharos explore what stakeholders across society must do to make sure no one is left behind in the global energy transformation.
André de Ruyter, CEO of Eskom, discusses decarbonization and what it will take to enable a just transition at his company and around the globe.
BCG’s Shelly Trench speaks with 3M’s chief sustainability officer, Gayle Schueller, about the policies and technologies that will be needed to ensure broad access to sustainable energy.
Sasol executives Sarushen Pillay and Priscillah Mabelane discuss the importance of ecosystems and partnerships in enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy.
