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Oil & Gas

Since 1993, McKinsey's Moscow office has helped implement more than 80 projects for Russian and international oil and gas players and petrochemical companies, both state-owned and private.

Key activities and project examples:

  • Strategy development. We assist in developing comprehensive strategies for vertically integrated energy and petrochemical companies, as well as for companies throughout the value chain.
  • Investment strategy. We help companies implement high-efficiency investment processes, optimize corporate investment portfolios, and support other major investment projects geared toward improving returns.
  • Marketing and sales. We work with functional experts to increase sales profitability through pricing, sales management, and optimization of distribution channels.
  • Operations. Our teams support the design and implementation of more efficient processes throughout the enterprise, particularly in purchasing and procurement, where we optimize raw-material purchasing and services to reduce expenses and total cost of ownership.
  • Organizational strategy. We collaborate with client executives to design and implement performance-management systems, create new corporate-center organization structures, optimize workforce structure, and identify ways to use IT to streamline operations and improve organization performance.

For more about McKinsey’s experience in oil and gas, visit our global practice homepage.

Meet our people

Pal Erik Sjatil

Pål Erik Sjåtil

Director

Leads McKinsey’s presence in Eastern Europe and the CIS and provides strategy development support in the region for local market leaders and multinational companies

Vladimir Aleksandrov

Principal

Leads projects in oil & gas and mining on strategy, operations, and organization. Has extensive knowledge of E&P operations, especially onshore and offshore subsurface optimization.

Darya Borisova

Darya Borisova

Principal

Darya led several large-scale turnaround programs for Russian industrial companies. Focuses on serving clients in the oil-and-gas and chemicals industries, as well as the transport, infrastructure, and logistics sectors. Darya leads McKinsey’s Capital Productivity Practice in Russia.

Avetik Chalabyan

Avetik Chalabyan

Principal

Leads strategy development, organization, and operational performance improvement for major Russian companies in the oil, metallurgical, mining, and aviation industries. Has served several CIS governments on economic and administrative reforms and policy development for selected industries.

Vitaly Klintsov

Vitaly Klintsov

Director

Leads the implementation of projects for public sector organizations and companies in the oil-and-gas and power sectors.

George Kobulia

George Kobulia

Principal

Leads projects on strategy development, organization modeling, operations improvement, and procurement for companies in the oil and gas, mining, and metals sectors. Active in work focused on state regulation.

Dmitry Savitsky

Dmitry Savitsky

Principal

Leads our work in B2B marketing and sales. Serves leading oil-and-gas and iron-and-steel companies in Russia and Eastern Europe, mostly in downstream sector.

Semyon Yakovlev

Semyon Yakovlev

Principal

Works with the largest banks in Russia and the Ukraine on operations transformation and strategy projects, oil and gas companies (implementation of operational transformation programs, strategy design and organization, increasing investment efficiency).

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