value chain

The Independent companies of the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical market develop a new business model to award EPC contracts.

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.

Third largest US oil and gas company by equity Home based in Los Angeles, California, USA, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) is listed in New York Stock Exchange since 1964 and is operating as an international oil company. With more than 40,000 employees, Oxy focuses its oil and gas operations in three core regions of the world: […]

Shell do not revise its offer on Cove Energy against PTT Last February, Shell Exploration and Production B.V.(Shell) had made an offer on  to take over Cove Energy (Cove), then the Thai National Oil Company (NOC), PTTEP came into the game with the counter offer. After different bids, both companies maintained their conditions, Shell at $0.220 per share and PTTEP at $0.240 while Coves‘ […]

QP and Shell completed feasibility study on $6 billion Ras Laffan petrochemical complex Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell have completed the feasibility study of the World-scale petrochemicals Complex in in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar Estimated to cost $6 billion capital expenditure this petrochemical complex will be designed around a world-scale steam mixed cracker (ethane or methane) Shell and QP are targeting to benefit from […]

Enterprise to leverage its midstream Market Leadership with booming downstream in USA Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) is planning to build one of the world’s largest Propane DeHydrogenation (PDH) unit and Polymer Grade Propylene (PGP) unit in Texas, USA. These PDH and PGP projects are directly related to profitable development of NGL-rich natural gas production. With […]

Tsusho takes 32.5% of Encana’s Coalbed Methane Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Tsusho) has reached an agreement with Encana Corporation (Encana), Canada‘s largest natural gas producer, to acquire a 32.5% interest in a coalbed methane (CBM) project. Tsusho will pay C$602 million to acquire the interest and in capital expenditure over the coming seven years. Tsusho has […]