The past decade has been eventful for both the world and the energy sector. Climate change, new technologies, an unexpected global pandemic, and geopolitical tensions have all contributed to a dynamic and volatile environment. With oil and gas expected to continue playing a moderating role in the energy mix going forward, companies may need to reevaluate their operating models to adapt and remain competitive.
This could involve improving productivity, managing change, optimizing organizational size and structure, embedding gen AI into operating models, building capabilities for success, and rebalancing portfolios. Drawing on decades of deep industry knowledge and organizational expertise, we help companies address these critical challenges, boost their business performance, and build organizational health to sustain long-term excellence.
What we do
Over the past 5 years, we have served two-thirds of the world's top 20 oil and gas companies in more than 280 projects—spanning organizational analytics and design, performance transformation, human capital and talent, and merger management. In addition to providing strategic advice and hands-on support with implementation, we are committed to building clients' capabilities at all levels of an organization to ensure long-term success. To help senior executives with their development, we offer focused learning opportunities through our Change Leaders Forum, national oil company executive program, Organization Agility Forum, and our Executive Transitions Masterclass.
How we can help
We partner with oil and gas companies to navigate complexities and unlock new opportunities by focusing on the most relevant trends and topics.
Examples of our work
Over the past five years, we have served two-thirds of the world’s top 20 oil and gas companies in more than 280 projects spanning organizational analytics and design, performance transformation, human capital and talent, and merger management.
Supporting an Agile Transformation
Working with a supermajor seeking to modernize its global organization to compete in increasingly volatile energy markets, we helped design a comprehensive transformation, embedding new agile processes that have cut average time to plan a well by more than 30 percent.
Delivering Competitive Advantage
We helped a fast-growing Asian independent oil company to turn project delivery into a sustainable competitive advantage by building a cross-functional organization and culture and capabilities while continuing to execute projects worth $3 billion. All projects were delivered on time and on budget, with $500 million in accrued savings.
Driving a Performance Transformation
For a national oil company suffering from massive under investment after 30 years as a monopoly, we helped retool the organization for success in a deregulated market, leading to a 24 percent rise in upstream oil production, a 4 percent gain in refining yield, a 10 percent uplift in fuel-station sales, and a 10 percent drop in distribution costs.
Featured capabilities
We invest heavily in developing proprietary tools, databases, and methods, including:
- Our How We Help Clients program provides training and coaching to help clients apply best practices for themselves. For senior executives, we offer focused learning and personal development through our Change Leaders Forum, national oil company executive program, Enterprise Agility Forum, and Executive Transitions Master Class.
- Our International Upstream Production Performance Benchmark includes data from 200 assets globally and provides objective comparisons of a company’s performance across multiple metrics, including production efficiency at an asset level.
- Our Upstream Workforce Benchmark helps companies compare their technical and operational headcount against that of peers to inform transformation planning.
- Our Overhead Benchmarking Initiative is based on data from more than 1,000 companies and enables clients to draw comparisons across general and administrative functions.
- Our Oil and Gas Merger Management Tool Kit captures our insights from supporting the industry’s largest mergers over the past 20 years and covers integration boot camps, day-one checklists, draft integration plans, and value-capture opportunities.
Featured Solutions
Featured experts
Christopher Handscomb
PartnerLondon
Leads our work globally on organisation for players in the energy industry, and supports companies across sectors on enterprise-wide...
Aaron De Smet
Senior PartnerNew Jersey
Delivers growth, innovation, and organizational agility and is an expert on culture change, leadership development, team effectiveness,...