Corporate Strategy Solution
Executive-level insights into the strategies of key oil and gas companies
Introduction
In the oil and gas industry, answering the critical question of “how” can determine whether a company gains a competitive edge or incurs significant financial loss. Success depends on access to comprehensive, decision-grade data that enables leaders to evaluate strategy with clarity and confidence. This means combining insights on portfolio composition, operational performance, decarbonization pathways, and emissions performance, while ensuring every decision is grounded in a robust investment plan and aligned with long-term profitability.
Traditionally, these insights have been fragmented across multiple tools, vendors, and datasets, creating inefficiencies and limiting visibility. Our Corporate Strategy Solution eliminates this complexity by delivering a single, unified dashboard that integrates all critical data into one seamless platform. It brings together over 100 benchmarking metrics across 120+ companies, spanning traditional oil and gas operations as well as low-carbon business segments.
Built on asset-level data and standardized across business units, the platform provides both historical context and forward-looking intelligence. It also uncovers insights on companies with limited public disclosure, offering a depth of transparency rarely available in the market. This enables operators and financial institutions to benchmark performance, evaluate risk, and identify strategic opportunities with far greater precision.
More than just a data platform, this solution serves as a one-stop hub for corporate strategy intelligence, combining advanced analytics with in-depth reports and expert commentary on key market developments. By equipping decision-makers with reliable, integrated insights, it empowers organizations to optimize investments, and make smarter, faster strategic decisions in an increasingly complex energy landscape.
Assess corporate strategies and performance across the global oil and gas sector — from portfolio resilience to decarbonization progress.
This includes the ability to:
- Executive summary: Review key performance indicators and corporate profiles to understand each company’s overall strategic positioning.
- Portfolio analysis: Analyze exposure across upstream, refining, and low-carbon segments, including electrons and molecules, portfolio investments, and asset mapping.
- Financial analysis: Track shareholder distribution, profitability, debt trends, and capital efficiency to evaluate financial resilience.
- Decarbonization strategy: Assess emissions performance across Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3, including reduction strategies for upstream and refining operations.
- Risk analysis: Quantify stranded asset exposure and value at risk under varying commodity and carbon price scenarios.
- Peer benchmarking: Compare up to 120 leading companies on portfolio performance and decarbonization KPIs to identify best practices and competitive positioning.
Guiding energy leaders through the next strategic shift
- Corporate Benchmarking and Peer Strategy Evaluation
- Financial Performance and Shareholder Value Analysis
- Decarbonization Roadmap and Transition Strategy Design
- Strategic Risk and Scenario Planning
- Competitive Intelligence and Market Positioning
How can this help you
Energy Companies
Leverage the corporate strategy data:
Understand the corporate strategies of key oil and gas companies, their performances, and their decarbonization targets.
Bring clarity on portfolio capital allocation across multiple sectors. Analyse performance globally, regionally or by energy theme.
Analyse emissions comprehensively by monitoring progress and aligning with global sustainability goals. Assess progress on portfolio decarbonization.
Banking
Use corporate strategy insights to:
Quantify energy transition risks and opportunities for various stakeholders and KPIs within the oil and gas value chain, ensuring you are prepared for the road ahead.
Measure your company against industry peers, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Compare past and future performance.
Aceess to a competitor portfolio analysis and performance evaluation.
Investors
Guide investment strategies through:
Quantify energy transition risks and opportunities for various stakeholders and KPIs within the oil and gas value chain, ensuring you are prepared for the road ahead.
Measure your company against industry peers, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Compare past and future performance.
Aceess to a competitor portfolio analysis and performance evaluation.
Make smarter decisions with the Corporate Strategy Solution across every energy type. Learn how below:
Relevant across energy types
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Corporate Strategy Solution
Benchmark strategies of global energy companies
Analyze company portfolios, investments and transition strategies to understand how energy companies position themselves and compete across evolving energy markets.
Company intelligence
Analyze energy company strategies
Compare strategies, portfolios and investments across global energy companies.
Portfolio benchmarking
Benchmark companies and portfolios
Evaluate company portfolios, assets and performance across the global energy sector.
Energy transition insight
Track transition strategies and investments
Analyze company investments in low-carbon technologies and transition initiatives.
Company intelligence
Analyze strategies of global energy companies
Explore company portfolios, investments and strategic priorities across global energy companies to understand positioning, growth strategies and competitive dynamics.
Strategic benchmarking
Compare company performance and portfolios
Benchmark companies across financial metrics, asset portfolios and strategic focus to evaluate competitive positioning and corporate performance.
Transition strategies
Track energy transition investments
Analyze company investments in low-carbon technologies and transition initiatives to understand how strategies evolve across the energy sector.
Access datasets and analytical tools covering company portfolios, investments and strategies across global energy companies.
- Datasets covering company portfolios, assets and investments
- Analyze financial metrics, capital allocation and strategic focus
- Benchmark company performance across peers and markets
- Export company data and insights for internal analysis
Work with Rystad Energy experts to understand company strategies, evaluate portfolios and assess strategic positioning across energy markets.
- Custom analysis on company strategies and market positioning
- Independent insights on corporate portfolios and investments
- Support for strategy planning and competitive benchmarking
- Analysis backed by Rystad’s global energy datasets
The Rystad Energy Institute offers personalized courses designed to give individuals and organizations a complete 360° view of the energy market, covering the full energy system across industries, technologies, and regions.
- Elevate your energy IQ
- Stay ahead of the curve
- Drive career growth