Strategic Issues Monitor

Oil & Gas Sector

Trends Dashboard from the Climate Change and Environmental Regulation report

The Trends Dashboard from the Climate Change and Environmental Regulation report

Emerging issues and risks for leading companies in the oil and gas sector

Oxford Analytica’s Strategic Issues Monitor (SIM) for the oil and gas sector is designed for executives and analysts who require detailed insight into the geopolitical, financial, legislative, and social events that affect the industry.

The global oil and gas sector landscape is changing as an increasing share of reserves is held by fully or partially government-owned companies; exploration and production efforts become ever more risky and expensive; and environmental regulations are tightening in many parts of the world.

Our SIM service tracks precisely these topics, providing an early warning dashboard to monitor emerging risks and provide forecasts on issues ranging from oil and gas regulatory regimes to global trends in oil and gas investments.

Detailed analysis of emerging issues

The SIM service is based around five in-depth reports. Each report covers emerging issues, and comes with an Executive Brief that summarises key developments in all five areas.

The five reports cover:

  • Codes, regulation and fiscal regimes
  • Upstream investment and technology
  • Competition for access to energy resources
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability
  • Climate change and environmental regulation

Unique service

What makes the Oil & Gas Strategic Issues Monitor unique?

Network of experts
Analysis is produced by recognised leaders in their field — SIM is written by experts in our global network of more than 1,500 people. As a result our service is informed, in-depth and up-to-date.
Multidisciplinary approach
Like all Oxford Analytica publications, SIM uses a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together experts with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. We have established an expert panel for each of the five topics SIM covers.
Peer-review process
SIM uses a peer review process whereby everything that is written by one contributor is reviewed by another expert of an equal or greater level of expertise. In this way, weensure quality, accuracy, and absence of bias in our analysis.

An indispensable resource

For strategic planning executives, the SIM service provides an indispensable resource for qualitative forecasting of the business environment.

For government affairs professionals, the service provides an early warning on emerging issues in oil and gas sector regulation.

And for risk managers, the oil and gas SIM identifies and tracks emerging risks that could lead to correlated loss events.