Strategic Issues Facing the Oil & Gas Sector
- The nature of the oil and gas sector
- Current & future challenges within the sector – a question of supply & demand
- Volatility: demand, energy prices, exchange rates, interest rates
- Resources & reserves and the need for research & development
- Financial issues impacting on strategic development and growth
Advanced Strategic Decisions
- Strategic planning and decision making in a volatile market
- Analytical tools to aid strategic planning and decision making
- Diversifying income streams – balancing upstream, midstream & downstream
- Growth strategies: exploration, diversification, vertical & horizontal integration
- Mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, production sharing agreements & strategic alliances
Financing Strategies in the Oil & Gas Sector
- Sources of finance – the optimum capital structure and the cost of capital
- Capital investment appraisal: NPV, IRR, Modified IRR, Payback
- Financial forecasting and analysis in Excel
- Managing uncertainty of production, prices, capital costs & construction delays
- Modelling energy prices in capital budgeting
Financial Risk Management Strategies
- Developing and implementing a risk management strategy
- Risk analysis of oil and gas projects using Excel
- Sensitivity analysis, sensitivity charts and scenario analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation
- Hedging energy prices; interest rates and foreign exchange rates using financial derivatives
- Accounting for hedging under IFRS
Project Management to Meet Strategic Aims & Objectives
- Estimating activity durations and costs using statistical and probability estimates
- Critical path and manpower planning
- Earned value analysis
- Budgetary control and variance analysis
- Implementing and managing change, suspension or shut downs