关键词: 国际石油公司, 国家石油公司, 独立油公司, 勘探开发业务, 经营动向, 发展策略

Abstract: The global oil and gas market, as a whole, has maintained a good trend since 2017 with international oil prices climbing significantly. Most of petroleum companies have re-positioned themselves for strategic growth. To make an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of those companies’ successful methods and experiences, this study selects 40 companies of three main kinds -- international oil companies, national oil companies and independent oil companies -- as the research targets. Based on comparison of the different kinds and analysis of the typical cases, the study focuses on the development characteristics of those oil companies, such as their business dynamics, development strategy, and optimization of assets portfolio. The study indicates that companies of the different kinds have different development characteristics. International oil companies have a strong momentum for their upstream business growth, leading the industry to resume quickly. National oil companies have their own remarkable development characteristics. They are quite different from one another in business growth owing to shortage of capital. Independent oil companies continually focus on their core businesses with the growth engine coming from their specializations. Oil companies pay more attention to both long-term and short-term objectives for business development and highlight actual economic performance, thus leading to active acquisitions in the upstream sector and outstanding performance in the areas of oil sand, tight oil and gas, and deepwater operations. Meanwhile, oil companies are actively set for natural gas and renewable energy businesses and modernize themselves by means of organizational restructuring.