A model designed to assist management in understanding the cost structure of oil distributors in the UK is developed. This model can be programmed on to a spreadsheet and only requires inputs which can be simply retrieved and updated.

Purpose – This paper aims at developing a methodology capable of controlling accidents and failures in oil and gas production activities. Design/methodology/approach – Fuzzy analysis that is based on fuzzy linguistics, rule matrix, rule structures, and system operating rules is utilised....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the effects of quality management practices on operational and business performance. Design/methodology/approach – A reliable and valid survey instrument was used for data gathering from managers in the petroleum industry. A...

How do managers, in their role as decision makers, design and implement systems for management of quality? Proposes that there is no one, definitive answer to this question, given various industrial environments and their operating constraints, diverse market conditions and numerous management...

Purpose – The paper's purpose is to highlight conflicting interests between combating climate change and the technique of carbon capture and storage (CCS) within the Norwegian petroleum industry. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is written in a conceptual form. The theoretical...

Assesses the main factors affecting employment in the Arab Gulf region. In particular: What are the main determinants of employment in the region? How do these determinants vary between national and foreign workforces? Have these determinants changed over time? The results, particularly for the...

The first of two articles to discuss the key strategic issues and their inter‐relationships in the changing and complex environment of the oil industry. Part I deals with the key issues in the search for flexibility in the more open system in which the oil majors now operate compared to the...

The second part of a two‐part article which examines the dominant strategic factors which are developing and may develop in trading conditions of the oil industry's general environment and their likely influences on the key structural assumptions inbuilt in the “strategic cycling”...

Sample-survey information is used to assess aspects of the predictive competence of the transaction-cost paradigm. The extent of vertical disintegration by oil companies in offshore oil gathering is shown to be consistent with the revealed efficacy of the markets in intermediate goods and...

The reforms and privatisation programmes of the 1990s structured the Russian oil industry around a few large national and private companies. This organisational structure poses some questions in respect of the Russian authorities will to take back the oil sector. Three factors may explain this...