Reports
Assessing shale gas potential
Shale gas has been hailed as the next energy revolution, but is controversial for its uncertain economics and feared environmental impacts. Ruud Weijermars and Crispian McCredie, Alboran Energy Strategy Consultants, explain why European shale gas development is likely to be led by Warsaw and not Brussels. (more…)
Building Corporate IQ – Moving the Energy Business from Smart to Genius
Executive Guide to Preventing Costly Crises Building Corporate IQ – Moving the Energy Business from Smart to Genius gives a clear outline of organizational intelligence and provides a framework for practitioners of good leadership. The synthesis starts with an overview of the fundamental skills and competencies mastered by leaders and team members in organizations. Building Corporate IQ – Moving the Energy Business from Smart to Genius also includes a corporate IQ test that is designed to help leaders gain insight into how their organization can stay at the competitive frontier. (more…)
Russian gas key to 2020 targets
With 2020 only eight years away and taking into account International Energy Agency (IEA) projections, how will Europe meet its greenhouse gas emissions targets whilst ensuring affordable energy supply? Using gas as a transition fuel means Europe must carefully weigh the risks of an increased dependency on Russia. Crispian McCredie and Ruud Weijermars*, Alboran Energy Strategy Consultants, consider the dilemmas that must be solved for a new European Union energy policy. (more…)
Guidelines for clockspeed acceleration in the US natural gas transmission industry
This study presents the clockspeed analysis of a peer group comprising six major integrated US energy companies with substantial US interstate natural gas pipeline business activities: El Paso, Williams, NiSource, Kinder Morgan, MidAmerican and CMS Energy. For this peer group, the three clockspeed accelerators have been benchmarked at both corporate level and gas transmission business level, using time-series analysis and cross-sectional analysis over a 6-year period (2002–2007). (more…)
Critical Drivers of Exploration and Production Clockspeed
The performance of oil and gas companies takes place in a highly competitive market where everything is related to timing. In a bull market, companies that respond the fastest to internal and external signals of growth opportunities can take measures to further accelerate their growth. In a recessional market, companies can prevent overly steep deceleration of their business size by taking adequate action to adjust the company to the changed outlook without undue delay. (more…)
CLOSING COMMUNICATION GAPS CAN IMPROVE THE SUCCESS OF OIL & GAS VENTURES
For nearly a century, National Oil Companies (NOCs) and International Oil Companies (IOCs) have jointly executed the challenging task to match the global energy supply and demand schedules. Increasingly, IOCs struggle for access to reserves, controlled by NOCs, as follows from an inventory of the regional spread of reserves. The global increase in energy demand and unequal access to reserves has an important consequence: negotiations and relation management involve mutual stakes higher than ever before. (more…)