Deutsche Bank. Marketing Research. Oil and Gas for Beginners

London: Deutsche Bank AG, 2013. — 496 р.Пособие по нефтегазовому делу для начинающих (в большей степени для занимающихся техническим анализам для инвестиционного бизнеса).Deutsche Bank's overview of the global oil & gas industry. Structured in three parts, this layperson's guide includes details on the workings of the oil & gas industry, key oil producing countries and a summary of the assets and portfolios of the leading European and US oil & gas companies.
The strategic commodity.As the dominant source of our energy needs for the better part of the last 60 years, crude oil has held influence over the politics and economic strategies of nations more than any other commodity, frequently proving the source of instability, dispute and war. From the birth of Standard Oil through the expropriation of Yukos, the oil industry has similarly found itself the subject of frequent controversy, with the companies involved often achieving profits and wielding power greater than the nations in which they are based. For an industry that, at its most basic involves little more than drilling a hole in the ground in the hope of finding the ‘black stuff’, the modern day oil industry is a remarkable amalgam of politics, economics, science and technology. Huge and diverse, it is also one that can at times prove bewildering, and not just for the uninitiated.The industry, the countries and the major companies – all in one. With this in mind, in January 2008 the Global Oil & Gas Team at Deutsche Bank first published a document that we hoped would prove of good use for beginners and industry old hands alike – Oil & Gas for Beginners. Some five years and several reprints later, we have mustered the strength to update and expand our original text. Structured in three parts it contains contributions from Deutsche Bank’s global team of oil & gas analysts, many with backgrounds in the industry as well as drawing on Deutsche Bank’s longstanding relationship with Wood Mackenzie, one of the industry’s leading research houses. In the initial Industry Section we look at what shaped today’s industry, the geology of oil, and its applications together with how it’s found, how it’s extracted & refined and how it’s taxed. In the second Countries Section we review the oil & gas production outlook and histories for the leading OPEC and non-OPEC producers including details of the major fields, their tax systems, energy infrastructure and, of course, the status of their reserves. Finally, in the Companies Section we review the portfolios of the leading international oil companies that comprise the bulk of the oil & gas sector’s stock market capitalisation, providing asset value breakdowns and an overview of the major business activities and growth projects. For the uninitiated and more learned reader alike.Although Oil & Gas for Beginners is intended as a beginners guide we hope that it will also find favour with the more experienced reader. Overall, we trust that our audience will find it a useful document and entrust it with a permanent slot on an already overcrowded desk. So for those of you who want to know more about the life cycle of a basin, the Earth’s geologic clock, why an Indian bean has proven key to unconventional extraction or any number of industry relevant themes read on. We hope that what you find will prove both interesting and informative.