Political risk in the international oil and gas industry

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5560691

Lax, H L

This book examines problems of foreign investment policies faced by oil and gas corporations through an in-depth look at how the political environments confronting them change. Lax describes how to analyze poltical risks as an essential component of corporate decision making in the 1980s-given the changing relationship between host government and company, new resource nationalism, and growing awareness of power in developed and developing countries alike. Contents: 1. Introduction: political risk and corporate decision making. 2. The politicization of oil and gas. 3. Substance and structure of the oil and gas industry. 4. Risks and resources in oil and gas. 5. The nature of political risks. 6. Approaches to political risk analysis. 7. Corporate management of political risk. Bibliography. Index.

• OSTI ID: 5560691
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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RISK ASSESSMENT