The oil and gas industry is going through one of the biggest changes in its history. Whether it be the main, big oil extractors (BP, Shell etc) or oil and gas services companies, they are all effected by the ‘Energy Transition’
My organisation, being an oil and gas ‘services company’, like others, must respond with flexibility, speed, collaboration or, as has happened within my company, can lose out to the tide of digital companies who can often do it cheaper, more efficiently and at less cost.
The result is a very ambitious growth strategy, but unfortunately lacks the change needed to deliver engineering solutions to consider new market segments. Unfortunately, the use of old, outdated processes are being used causing inefficiency in delivery.
I have, therefore, used four steps to carry out my literature review:
STEP 1
Identifying topics to search for:
Firstly, it was in my best interests to note down what the problem is, document questions and sub-questions that can be answered by colleagues and through company research. Topics to search for would be around:
1/ How can SOS delivery future energy transition engineering solutions to new markets using outdated O&G related processes?
2/ How can we improve engineering delivery efficiency while a skills shortage, saturated market and resource issues exists?
1/ This allowed me to generate some sub questions that would help fine tune my literature searches. These consist, so far, of:
2/ Would upfront R&D investment allow new technologies to be designed (using an implicit R&D process)?
STEP 2
Searching for academic knowledge:
Using the OU Library, and other ‘quality’ sources (such as ‘Google Scholar’) a general review of ‘the problem’ was carried out and brought up a number of academic papers, dissertations and notes on efficient ways to deliver, based on theories taking into account the 4th Industrial Revolution, the fact that large organisations, such as the Oil and Gas Industry, the MOD and the nuclear industry are looking for cost effective, more efficient methods of delivering R&D and other such Engineering complexities.
STEP 3
Tunnelling this down to several contextual sources of knowledge was quite time consuming but allowed me focus on my organisations problem in delivering engineering solutions more cost effectively, and efficiently, as we go through the ‘Energy Transition’. These theories, frameworks and models were peer reviewed, formal documents and other sources of ‘quality’ information from non-academic sources.
This allowed me to gather information relevant to my project and help me define my project work problem.
STEP 4
As a result of Step 3, I then managed to round down my literature research to several documents (around 10 -15) which I then saved into a research folder structure as follows:
1/ Stakeholder Analysis
2/ Risk Management
3/ Change Management
4/ Culture
5/ Strategy
The above will allow me to use several concepts when questioning and from theory literature to produce a possible change model which can be presented.
My Literature Review
The oil and gas industry is going through one of the biggest changes in its history. Whether it be the main, big oil extractors (BP, Shell etc) or oil and gas services companies, they are all effected by the ‘Energy Transition’
My organisation, being an oil and gas ‘services company’, like others, must respond with flexibility, speed, collaboration or, as has happened within my company, can lose out to the tide of digital companies who can often do it cheaper, more efficiently and at less cost.
The result is a very ambitious growth strategy, but unfortunately lacks the change needed to deliver engineering solutions to consider new market segments. Unfortunately, the use of old, outdated processes are being used causing inefficiency in delivery.
I have, therefore, used four steps to carry out my literature review:
STEP 1
Identifying topics to search for:
Firstly, it was in my best interests to note down what the problem is, document questions and sub-questions that can be answered by colleagues and through company research. Topics to search for would be around:
1/ How can SOS delivery future energy transition engineering solutions to new markets using outdated O&G related processes?
2/ How can we improve engineering delivery efficiency while a skills shortage, saturated market and resource issues exists?
1/ This allowed me to generate some sub questions that would help fine tune my literature searches. These consist, so far, of:
2/ Would upfront R&D investment allow new technologies to be designed (using an implicit R&D process)?
STEP 2
Searching for academic knowledge:
Using the OU Library, and other ‘quality’ sources (such as ‘Google Scholar’) a general review of ‘the problem’ was carried out and brought up a number of academic papers, dissertations and notes on efficient ways to deliver, based on theories taking into account the 4th Industrial Revolution, the fact that large organisations, such as the Oil and Gas Industry, the MOD and the nuclear industry are looking for cost effective, more efficient methods of delivering R&D and other such Engineering complexities.
STEP 3
Tunnelling this down to several contextual sources of knowledge was quite time consuming but allowed me focus on my organisations problem in delivering engineering solutions more cost effectively, and efficiently, as we go through the ‘Energy Transition’. These theories, frameworks and models were peer reviewed, formal documents and other sources of ‘quality’ information from non-academic sources.
This allowed me to gather information relevant to my project and help me define my project work problem.
STEP 4
As a result of Step 3, I then managed to round down my literature research to several documents (around 10 -15) which I then saved into a research folder structure as follows:
1/ Stakeholder Analysis
2/ Risk Management
3/ Change Management
4/ Culture
5/ Strategy
The above will allow me to use several concepts when questioning and from theory literature to produce a possible change model which can be presented.