Supporting our oil and gas clients

Major challenges confront the oil and gas industry, such as greatly fluctuating demand and complex and growing regulatory pressures.

PA Consulting Group has worked with oil and gas clients for more than 20 years across upstream, midstream, downstream and corporate functions of their organisations. Our sector expertise helps national and international oil companies (NOCs and IOCs), together with service companies, to improve the efficiency and profitability of their businesses.

Described below are a range of services that our team provides for clients such as BP, Shell and StatOil:

Business improvement and transformation

We partner with our clients to achieve operational effectiveness, in front-line business units, supporting functions and shared services through cost reduction, performance improvement, smooth post-merger integration or effective organisation design.

Business resilience

Our teams design security and risk management solutions including business continuity and disaster recovery, adopting strategies for crisis management, and devising electronic security, with a particular focus on the security of mission-critical and safety-critical process control and SCADA systems.

Decision support

PA's consultants provide analytical, modelling and collaborative support for complex decision-making challenges surrounding asset management, resource optimisation and field development strategies.

Information technology

Our Oil and Gas experts provide insight into effective information management and technology services. These include support for operations in remote and challenging parts of the world, the establishment of offshore IT, and designing the right technology to exploit the full potential of digital oil fields.

Optimising people

Together with our clients we plan and implement strategies to handle the onset of the ageing workforce, knowledge and talent management, cultural change, recruitment and skills development in more isolated areas of the world.

Strategy and market analysis

We partner with our clients to conceive business and market strategies through market design and implementation, market analysis and modelling, price forecasting, valuation and support for mergers and acquisitions.

To hear more about our oil and gas capabilities, please contact us now.