Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to the identify risk factors, which affect oil and gas construction projects in Vietnam and derive risk responses. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire survey was conducted with the involvement of project executives of PetroVietnam and statistical...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the continuing justification for linking the prices of European gas to those oil products. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses an analytic‐deductive approach supported by relevant analysis of data over a period of two decades....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an appreciation of the role of national oil companies (NOCs) which control roughly 90 percent of the global hydrocarbon reserves, and whose operating and investment decisions affect prices, demand adjustments as well as their countries' policy...

Purpose – The paper aims to research the capability of using the tools of domestic and international performance benchmarking for estimation of efficiency, determine its key factors and reveal the full reserves of inputs reduction and potential growth efficiency for gas distribution companies....

This paper adopts a literary theory perspective to depict accounting reports and information as texts rather than as economic commodities and so available for analysis from the vantage point of semiotic linguistic theory. In doing so it takes the literary turn followed by many of the social...

Purpose – This research paper aims to examine global factors influencing business behaviour in the Russian oil and natural gas sector. The aspect of corporate governance will serve as an indicator for the business behaviour processes under review. It will be investigated whether global factors...

Presents a detailed report on pricing in the gas, electricity and telephone industries in the UK. Reports that all three utilities have to balance their commercial operations, sensible use of their resource and political obligations imposed by the Government.

Looks at models constructed for the gas industry domestic, central heating, cooling and industrial markets. Shows how these models can be used to permit the rapid assessment of marketing targets for appliance sales and price levels against gas supply constraints. Concludes that although these...

Suggests that both future supplies of, and the future demand for, North Sea Gas are highly uncertain. Gives examples to show that one can argue, with equal plausibility, that in the 1970s there could be either a significant shortage, or a substantial surplus of capacity relative to ‘premium’...

Stresses the importance of forecasting in essential supply industries such as the gas industry with regard to storing the product. Examines some of the problems encountered in this area and how they are dealt with.