Trade liberalization of oil and gas services is likely to involve three broad sets of issues that may be subject to negotiations. First, it is still rather controversial which economic activities in the hydrocarbon sector might constitute services and might be the object of multilateral trade...

This paper discusses the current state and future prospects of backward production linkages to the manufacturing sector in the Angolan oil and gas industry. The paper finds that local value-added links are currently limited to labour and to a lesser degree in basic services. However, there is a...

This book investigates the business strategies chosen by oil and gas service companies operating in China, Singapore and Malaysia. It provides an analytical view of the reliability of strategic theoretical frameworks based on Western business practice but applied in a non-Western business...