Strategic Planning for the Oil and Gas Industry Examination

Report
August 2022

Course Leader’s Report

With such a small sample size I don’t think detailed statistics will add to the analysis.

One solid top grade, a B, a narrow pass and a C/P.

Question One was our usual question showing financial data, this time for AcmeLook, a medium-
sized exploration business and asking how well the new boss had performed with related subsidiary
questions about the dynamics of the industry and efficiency in the exploration sector.

This was passed comfortably by three but one seemed unaware of how to tackle the ‘numbers’
question.

Question Two required using the process model to examine how much of a difference Graeme
Coutts had actually made to Expro and what he had meant by realigning the company. One failure
due to short word count and lack of familiarity with the Process model.

Question three required an analysis of the place of strategic planning in a world that is dynamic in
nature and then applying this specifically to the fast-changing oil and gas industry. This was largely
quite unexciting to read with few specifics on oil and gas and largely concentrating on the first part
with few examples there, either.