Sectors/Oil & gas
Sectors · Oil & gas

Oil and gas strategy, wellhead to cargo.

Schedule and cost against the base rate, contractor markets and host-state terms for operators, partners and lenders, led by a principal who has run offshore supply chains and FPSO operations.

On film

From the spoolbase to the seabed, on film.

6 min
Feature film · Offshore & subsea

Life of Field.

How a subsea development is engineered, installed, operated and removed, from spoolbase to recovery.

6 minutesHD filmDeck available
Practitioner's challengeWe have hidden twenty-one details in the film that only someone who has worked offshore will spot. Count them, then get the answer key.

Commodity briefings

Short executive briefings, one market each.

Inside this briefing

One global market.
Every barrel has its own value.

Crude oil connects wells, refineries and buyers across the world. The benchmark is the reference; quality, location and the sales formula determine what a particular barrel earns.

  1. 01
    Quality and refinery fit.

    Density, sulphur and processing needs.

  2. 02
    Common references. Distinct terms.

    Brent, WTI and Dubai/Oman.

  3. 03
    From benchmark to sales price.

    How the differential reaches revenue.

Explore the planned first season Eight executive briefings
  1. 01
    Crude oil

    The global oil market and its benchmarks.

    Watch above
  2. 02
    Natural gas

    Why gas markets differ by region.

    Planned
  3. 03
    LNG

    How gas becomes an international cargo.

    Planned
  4. 04
    Refining and petroleum products

    How crude becomes usable fuel.

    Planned
  5. 05
    Oil trading and the forward curve

    How physical supply and financial markets interact.

    Planned
  6. 06
    From discovery to first oil

    How an upstream investment becomes production.

    Planned
  7. 07
    FPSO and floating production

    How offshore development concepts affect field economics.

    Planned
  8. 08
    Production sharing: who gets the barrel

    How value is divided between companies and host states.

    Planned

Crude Oil · The global oil market and its benchmarks

Wellhead to cargo

The oil and gas value chain, link by link.

  1. 01Reservoir
  2. 02Concept and award
  3. 03Build and install
  4. 04Schedule and cost
  5. 05Operate
  6. 06Market
Principal’s record at this link

Every link draws on the same four practices. Mandates →

First oil is a date. We test whether it holds.

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