Majors' growth strategies benchmarking

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The energy industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the energy transition, evolving policy frameworks, and shifting capital priorities. Our new Corporate Strategy Solution provides a comprehensive suite of data, analytics, and insights to help energy companies understand how industry leaders are positioning themselves for the future.

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Supermajor Corporate Strategy Report

The supermajors set the trend for the rest of the industry. This report series examines in depth each major’s transition strategy, financial performance, corporate targets, emissions performance, reduction plans, value at risk, as well as forward-looking portfolio investments and diversification into CCUS, hydrogen, and renewable energy. Through a comparative lens across upstream resilience, decarbonization, and diversification, the analysis would enable BP to better understand its positioning relative to peers and the range of strategic pathways that could strengthen its competitiveness and market leadership.

Corporate Benchmarking Report

This report series benchmarks peer group transition strategies, enabling comparisons of financial performance, cost and carbon competitiveness, exploration strategies, portfolio investments, M&A, value at risk, and portfolio transformation targets, including expansion within low-carbon sectors. The Supermajor Benchmarking Report provides a comprehensive comparison of the majors’ portfolio strategies, operational performance, sustainability targets and financial outcomes, including analysis of total shareholder return, joint ventures, geographic diversification and renewable M&A activity. The series also includes a comparative review of NOC sustainability strategies, targets and results.

Energy Transition Risk Report

This report provides a long-term outlook for the upstream industry, analyzing energy transition risks under multiple demand scenarios. It benchmarks against common industry scenarios, including the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Emissions scenarios and Current Policy Scenario, to illustrate the key factors driving change in the upstream oil and gas sector and the challenges ahead. The analysis assesses transition risk for key stakeholders across the petroleum value chain, including governments, service companies and upstream players.

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