In 2018, twice more, in volume of capital expenditure, EPC contracts were awarded than in 2017. This step change is not related to some barrel price speculations bu to the new business models developed by the game changers, mostly the Independent companies taking now the lead of the market.
Read more 07 Jan 2019
Happy New Year 2019
Back in April, Japan published a report announcing the discovery of huge reserves of rare earth close to the Minamitori Island, 1800km away from Tokyo. Scientists discovered 16 million tons of rare earth elements encapsulated in mud 6000 meters underwater, enough to supply the national electronic industry and the world consumption for at least 400 years.
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Read more 11 Nov 2018
Market Shift and Upturn
Did you see the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical Market Shift and Upturn?
The volume of Oil & Gas and Petrochemical engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts awarded in 2018 is about to double compared with 2017 as a consequence of the market shift from the international oil companies (IOCs) to the national oil companies (NOCs) and independent companies.
The Independent companies of the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical market develop a new business model to award EPC contracts.
Read more 13 Aug 2018
Independent Companies
Independent companies definition. Independent companies refer to Oil & Gas and Petrochemical operators that are neither international oil companies (IOCs) nor national oil companies (NOCs).
Read more 06 Aug 2018
LNG market will be multiplied by 5 in 2018
Already more than double the 2017 business From the numbers we collected at the end of June, the […]
Read more 17 May 2018
Do you Value Chain or do you Value Network?
Do you value chain or do you value network? Is this wording game that important?
We believe it just summarizes the gap between the conventional economy and the new one leading to the 4thindustrial business model revolution.
Over the last decade, we have seen the emergence of new business models with Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, the so-called GAFAM, disrupting all economies and industries.
Innovation and technologies are the first reasons to explain how these companies became disruptive and successful in inventing new business models.
Read more 04 May 2018
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the new directive adopted by the European Union to regulate data privacy between citizens and organizations.
This law will come into effect the 25 May 2018 and will apply to every company processing data from EU citizens, even if the organization is not EU-based. GDPR is a major breakthrough for privacy and security in an increasingly data-driven world.
This directive aims to give EU citizens control over their personnal data, while giving greater responsability to organizations data management.
03 May 2018
Blockchain
Blockchain is a technology allowing an ecosystem to store and share information without the supervision of a control center. In fact, it is a distributed data base where information are checked and arrange in blocks at regular time interval. Creating a « chain of blocks », these remote registers are able to secure all the transactions between users since the system was created.
Protected by cryptography, the blockchian makes it possible to establish a trust between users.