The Oil and Gas Industry Overview: Version 3

Overview/Description
The oil and gas industry is a key player in supplying the world's energy, transportation, petrochemical, and fertilizer needs. Comprised of both national and independent oil and gas companies, the oil and gas industry supplies the products needed to heat homes, provide transportation by running engines in motorized vehicles, increase food production through fertilization, and create plastics for countless uses. The industry uses a supply chain to provide oil and natural gas products from locations around the world and deliver them to consumers throughout the world. Industry players adopt unique strategies to overcome the challenges of supplying a non-renewable resource by finding new resources with improved technological, business, and diversification strategies. This course is designed to help learners understand key concepts, terminology, issues, and challenges associated with the oil and gas industry, and strategies employed to meet some of those challenges. The course will identify the main sectors of the oil and gas industry and its business drivers, and review the key aspects of the industry business model, its competitive environment, and the current trends in the industry. Finally, this course outlines some key challenges that the oil and gas industry is facing and presents common strategies that the players in the industry are adopting to overcome these challenges. This course was updated in 2013.

Target Audience
Consulting houses, industry investors, and all size companies that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; organizations looking for knowledge and key business information in the oil and gas industry

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

The Oil and Gas Industry Overview: Version 3

identify the main drivers of the oil and gas industry

match oil and gas industry sectors with their activities and services

sequence the stages in the oil and gas industry supply chains

classify key competitors in the oil and gas industry

recognize current industry trends

recognize oil and gas industry challenges

categorize strategies for overcoming oil and gas industry challenges