Global oil & gas (energy) publications, thought leadership and studies

  • Oil & gas tax guide for Africa 2013
    Oil & gas tax guide for Africa 2013
    A guide to oil and gas tax regimes in some of Africa’s fastest growing countries.
    628 KB PDF file | Free download
  • New conventions for unconventional oil and gas: Reducing the drag to achieve speed and efficiency
    New conventions for unconventional oil and gas: Reducing the drag to achieve speed and efficiency
    This new publication examines the current trends in how energy companies are operationalising their strategies for unconventional development in shale.
    628 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Energy Consulting Capability Statement
    Delivering operational excellence
    Energy Consulting Capability Statement
    Delivering operational excellence
    Operational excellence is no longer something to strive for – it is a ‘must have’.
    PwC’s operational excellence services can ensure you deliver.
    1.52 MB PDF file | Free download
  • The US Energy Revolution: The role of private equity in oil and gas
    The US Energy Revolution: The role of private equity in oil and gas
    This new thought leadership piece examines the trends that have spurred unprecedented private equity growth in the US oil and gas industry during the past ten years. The specific lens is risk, and the analysis probes each industry segment along the risk continuum with deeper dives into each subsegment.
    477 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Embedding cyber security into the energy ecosystem: An integrated approach to assessing cyber threats and protecting your assets
    Embedding cyber security into the energy ecosystem: An integrated approach to assessing cyber threats and protecting your assets
    This publication discusses the implications of persistent cyber threats on energy companies and the challenges that security leaders face on a daily basis that can divert their focus, including demand for always-on services, intensifying regulations, mobility and initiatives like replacing aging industrial control systems with more modern "smart" devices.
    2.23 MB PDF file | Free download
  • Stay informed 2012 Financial Reporting Survey
    Stay informed 2012 Financial Reporting Survey
    This publication helps energy companies benchmark selected accounting policies with industry practices, identifies trends for significant accounting estimates, and facilitates the discussion on certain aspects of energy industry practice.
    2.23 MB PDF file | Free download
  • Shale oil: the next energy revolution
    Shale oil: the next energy revolution
    Shale oil could revolutionise the world’s energy markets over the next 20 years, resulting in lower oil prices, higher global GDP, changing geopolitics and shifting business models for oil and gas companies.
    1.05 MB PDF file | Free download
  • 2012 SEC comment letter trends: Energy industry
    2012 SEC comment letter trends: Energy industry
    This publication provides an analysis of SEC comment letters issued throughout the past few years to registrants across the energy value chain, including exploration and production, midstream, downstream, drillers, oilfield services, and integrated energy companies.
    4.66 MB PDF file | Free download
  • Energy Visions: Pipelines, politics and price
    Energy Visions: Pipelines, politics and price
    The 2012 PwC-sponsored Canadian oil and gas annual client event known as Energy Visions focused on some of the political aspects of the industry, along with energy prices, efforts to build pipelines and the overall impact of the Canadian oil and gas on the world market.
    1.1 MB PDF file | Free download
  • Executing a successful listing: Markets for Oil & Gas
    Executing a successful listing: Markets for Oil & Gas
    This PwC IPO Centre publication provides an overview of different financial markets and how they serve the oil and gas sector and includes a high level summary of the listing requirements in each of those markets that are applicable to oil and gas companies.
    3.3 MB PDF file | Free download
  • Eurasia Group and PwC: Global trends in oil & gas: Free markets versus state capitalism.
    Eurasia Group and PwC: Global trends in oil & gas: Free markets versus state capitalism.
    The rise of state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) is part of the trend toward state capitalism in emerging markets. While NOCs may lack cutting-edge energy production technologies, they have the advantages of low-cost capital from state-controlled banks.
    247 KB PDF file | Free download
  • PwC dialogue: the growing significance of NOC renewable energy strategies.
    PwC dialogue: the growing significance of NOC renewable energy strategies.
    The growth of renewable energy in the Middle East could transform the energy supply and business development opportunities open to national oil companies (NOCs). There is increasing recognition that, just as these countries are ‘oil rich’ so they are also potentially ‘renewables rich’. In the run up to this year’s World Petroleum Congress, PwC has been conducting a dialogue on the role of NOCs in relation to renewable energy.
    39.5 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Petroleum Accounting: Principles, Procedures, & Issues 7th edition
    Petroleum Accounting: Principles, Procedures, & Issues 7th edition
    The 7th Edition of Petroleum Accounting: Principles, Procedures, & Issues is for accounting and financial professionals, and energy industry investors. Topics covered include accounting and reporting practices and procedures, changes and updates by the SEC, FASB, EITF, and the IRS, and recent developments affecting all energy professionals.
  • Succession planning: What is the cost of doing it poorly…or not at all?
    Succession planning: What is the cost of doing it poorly…or not at all?
    Succession planning can provide a long-term competitive advantage for companies in the energy industry. The key is investing the proper amount of time and attention to ensure that pivotal talent is identified and nurtured.
    229 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Financial reporting in the oil and gas industry: International Financial Reporting StandardsFinancial reporting in the oil and gas industry: International Financial Reporting Standards
    Financial reporting in the oil and gas industry: International Financial Reporting Standards
    This publication considers the major accounting practices adopted by the oil and gas industry under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The need for this publication has arisen due to the absence of an extractive industries standard under IFRS; the adoption of IFRS by oil and gas entities across a number of jurisdictions, with overwhelming acceptance that applying IFRS in this industry will be a continual challenge; and ongoing transition projects in a number of other jurisdictions, for which companies can draw on the existing interpretations of the industry.
    1.2 MB PDF file | Free download
  • Valuing the great shale play: Applying proper fair value accounting to acquired shale gas reserves
    Valuing the great shale play: Applying proper fair value accounting to acquired shale gas reserves
    Once considered an unconventional resource, shale gas today is viewed by many as an important component of the domestic energy portfolio. Companies eager to join in the "shale rush" should take steps to make sure that acquired reserves are properly fair valued for financial reporting purposes.
    401 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Compliance plus risk management equals value Compliance plus risk management equals value
    Compliance plus risk management equals value
    Energy companies today must make a strong effort to monitor compliance and cooperate fully with law enforcement when required. An overarching compliance program coordinated with risk management can protect energy companies from today’s new regulatory realities and provide new opportunities for value.
    76.4 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Maximizing the value of shale joint ventures Maximizing the value of shale joint ventures
    Maximizing the value of shale joint ventures
    Shale gas joint ventures with international partners will continue to play an important role in developing domestic shale gas and oil resources for years to come, with domestic companies providing acreage and know-how and foreign investors providing much-needed capital. With the proper insight, these agreements can be structured in a manner that offers substantial accounting and tax benefits to both sides of the joint venture.
    278 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Oil and Gas global deals continue to blaze a trail
    Oil and Gas global deals continue to blaze a trail
    There were 163 deals globally in the Oil and Gas industry in the first quarter of 2011, the lowest level of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) activity since early 2009 and down by around 20% on the levels seen in 2010 albeit at higher than average deal sizes supported overall deal value.
    217 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Nice work if you can get it! Developments in the Turkish petroleum market
    Nice work if you can get it! Developments in the Turkish petroleum market
    The pick-up in oil prices, the offshore disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a shifting focus from downstream to upstream and elaborate discussions on shale reserves have been the global headlines in 2010... But the issues topping the agenda in the Turkish petroleum market were very different.
    667 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Managing your capital project: Capital project capability statementManaging your capital project: Capital project capability statement
    Managing your capital project: Capital project capability statement
    The scale of projects in the energy, utility and mining sectors present immense challenges at the best of times. In a world of economic instability, with uncertain demand and plummeting commodity prices, these challenges are magnified. From project appraisal all the way through to completion and operation, a solid project management strategy will optimise your capital project delivery, ensuring survival in the downturn, and emerging stronger and better positioned.
    492 KB PDF file | Free download
  • Energy Insights: Energy SEC Revenues Reporting - Leading the changeEnergy insights: Energy SEC revenues reporting - Leading the change
    Energy insights: Energy SEC revenues reporting - Leading the change
    A new set of reporting principles, adopted in late 2008, impacts the way oil and gas companies communicate reserves information to stakeholders. The SEC's new rules give energy executives and directors the opportunity to more closely align reserves reporting with their overall business strategy and their competitive position in the marketplace. This publication will help you better understand how these rules impact the financial accounting and disclosure requirements, as well as other implications of the rule changes.
    177 KB PDF FILE | Free download