
Explore paradox of plenty and oil curse, explain Dutch disease, contrast Norway and Venezuela, and learn escape steps: float exchange rate, attract FDI, protect a sovereign wealth fund.
Analyze the UAE's 2026 exit from OPEC, applying game theory to reveal how profitability paradox and 15% capacity withdrawal reshape the global oil market.
Use the Pestel framework to map energy strategy across political, economic, social, tech, environmental, and legal forces, exposing power levers like capital, standards, and regulation.
Apply Porter's five forces to show how energy markets balance domestic regulation, global competition, substitutes, and power dynamics to defend value rather than merely beat rivals.
Reframe energy profits as a long-term capital allocation machine, balancing tariffs, PPAs, revenue streams, costs, and the capital cycle to govern vertical integration.
Track how value migrates from upstream reserves to infrastructure and contracts as LNG and hydrogen reshape the oil and gas landscape. Apply game theory to logistics.
Use the four-question Advantage Test to distinguish genuine competitive advantages from noise, assessing value, rarity, imitability, and whether the organization can exploit them in oil and gas strategy.
Examine how the traditional all-in strategy of owning upstream, midstream, and downstream assets creates margin smoothing but concentrates risk, prompting a shift to partnership for risk-adjusted returns.
Transform SWOT into SFAS by weighting critical factors and scoring capabilities, and apply game theory to anticipate rivals, avoid capacity expansion traps, and secure long-term oil and gas strategy.
Learn to use the quantitative strategic planning matrix (QSPM) to compare LNG expansion, hydrogen, and refinery upgrades with a 1–4 scoring system, revealing a numbers-based strategic choice.
Stress test your strategy against worst-case oil price shocks by identifying your break-even oil price and building a fortress balance sheet with cash reserves and manageable debt.
Develop a robust 10-year oil and gas strategy using an eight-step framework that analyzes external trends, internal capabilities, competitor moves, and stress-tested execution.
Explore how game theory explains the profitability paradox in oil and gas, using a payoff matrix to reveal Nash equilibrium outcomes, entry deterrence strategies, and cooperation opportunities.
MBA strategy questions
Business strategy practice test
Corporate strategy MCQs
Game theory practice questions
Capital allocation strategy
Oil & Gas business strategy
Energy economics MBA
Strategic management exam preparation
Executive strategy quiz
Limited bonus (April & May): Get an additional course at no extra cost after enrollment.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
The oil and gas industry is one of the world's most competitive and strategically complex industries. Companies must continuously make critical decisions regarding investments, market positioning, growth opportunities, risk management, energy transition, operational performance, and long-term value creation.
This course teaches the principles of Strategic Management, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, and Decision Making through the lens of the oil and gas industry.
This is not a technical engineering course. It is advanced strategic thinking for professionals, using oil and gas, LNG and energy markets as the core context.
Have you ever asked:
Why companies expand LNG capacity at the same time?
Why hydrogen projects move forward and then stall?
Why some national oil companies survive low oil prices while others struggle?
How capital allocation decisions are really made?
This course teaches oil and gas strategy at an executive level.
You will learn:
What strategy really means in long cycle industries
What strategic tools are used in corporate decision-making
How techno-economic factors shape strategy formulation
How to analyse LNG and gas market competition
How to apply game theory to pricing wars and capacity expansion
How to design ten-year corporate strategies
How to structure capital allocation under volatility
How to stress test portfolios under oil price decline
How governance and stage gate discipline protect long-term value
If you work in upstream, LNG, hydrogen, petroleum economics, planning, or within a national oil company, this course will upgrade how you think about capital, competition and long-cycle strategy.
No MBA required.
No advanced mathematics required.
Only industry awareness and the willingness to think strategically.
Ready to move from operations to strategy?
Enroll and begin thinking like a decision maker.
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