Oil & Gas – Upstream Experts

Eric A. Spiegel Peter Parry Ibrahim El-Husseini Nick Pennell Arthur Ramos Per-Ola Karlsson

In an industry characterized by heightened levels of uncertainty and volatility, upstream oil and gas companies face continued pressure to perform. Private-sector companies are confronting such challenges as securing renewal, driving growth, and delivering strong returns, whereas national oil companies are contending with stewarding the resource base, further developing workforce skills, and establishing partnerships that create wealth.

Against a backdrop of firming prices for oil and gas, industry investors are looking for the next level of performance. As oil and gas companies identify and capture new opportunities, they are leveraging innovative technologies to improve extraction and to access new resources, investing in skills to better manage major projects and assets, focusing on operational excellence and standardization to improve efficiencies, managing human capital more creatively to address the tight labor markets, and adapting operating models to respond to new business realities characterized by maturity, competitive intensity, and asset integrity.

Global exploration and production trends are on the verge of rapid acceleration, as abundant capital resources look for a home in traditional areas and unconventional hydrocarbons such as tight gas, coal bed methane, heavy oil, tar sands, and shale. Building new conversion and handling capabilities (for LNG, gas to liquids, upgrading, and carbon sequestration) are the fundamental new skills to add to expertise in exploration, development, improved recovery, and technology application.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s Capabilities

Drawing on our deep understanding of industry dynamics, extensive cross-sector experience, and broad functional capabilities, Booz Allen delivers comprehensive support to the upstream oil and gas sector. Our global capabilities are equally effective in delivering results that endure in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Asia. Working side by side with our private and public-sector clients, we support strategy development and execution, operations readiness and effectiveness, technology management, and workforce planning.

Strategy Development and Execution — We help clients build sector-level, regional, and business unit strategies to tackle the full range of strategic and competitive challenges they face. Working with ambition and condition-driven methodologies, our teams help clients inform their strategic debate, envision the future, set clear expectations, and develop and implement an appropriate strategy.

• Sector-level strategies
• Region and business unit strategies
• Growth and business renewal
• Distinctive strategies that breakout and are competitive
• Changing industry position, challenging status quo

Operations Readiness and Effectiveness — We assist clients in achieving maximum effectiveness in day-to-day business operations, tackling maturity onset or new project expansions and technology implementation.

• Operating model review
• Organizational development
• Functional support improvement and excellence (Finance, SOX, HR, Technology, IT)
• Operations effectiveness, efficiency, and integrity
• Digital oilfield design, development, and implementation

Technology Management — We help clients build competitive strategies for accessing, developing, and deploying new technology.

• Technology strategy and portfolio management
• Due diligence
• Technology transfer and adoption
• Technology profile and competitive position

Workforce Planning — We work alongside clients to tackle tight labor markets, develop new skills, address discipline requirements, and build sustainable workforce strategies.

• Learning and development strategy
• Resourcing, recruitment, and retention
• Workforce and capability planning
• Discipline and skill pool effectiveness

Representative Energy Sector Disciplines and Areas of Expertise

Booz Allen has worked with an array of the world’s leading energy companies in every category of the business: upstream oil and gas; downstream refining petrochemicals, trading, distribution, and retail; and gas and power, including electricity and gas distribution. Among the firm’s clients are the global super-major oil companies, independents, and NOCs; local and regional utilities in Europe, the United States, and Latin America; petrochemical manufacturers; financial investors; and policy makers.

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