Despite its size and importance, a surprising lack of basic knowledge exists about the oil and gas industry.
With their timely new book, authors Andrew Inkpen and Michael H. Moffett have written a nontechnical book to help readers with technical backgrounds better understand the business of oil and gas. They describe and analyze the global oil and gas industry, focusing on its strategic, financial, and business aspects and addressing a wide range of topics organized around the oil and gas industry value chain, starting with exploration and ending with products sold to consumers.
The Global Oil & Gas Industry is a single source for anyone interested in how the business of the worldis largest industry actually works: business executives, students, government officials and regulators, professionals working in the industry, and the general public.

The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Stories from the Field relates specific examples of challenges in decision making, changing business practices, and the difficulties in executing complex projects across the global industry. From contentious border disputes over mineral rights to the emergence of industry disrupters shaking the status quo, each story presents contemporary issues to distill lessons that are transferrable to management challenges both inside and outside of the global oil and gas industry. Bestselling PennWell authors Andrew Inkpen and Michael Moffett join with industry expert Kannan Ramaswamy to provide a narrative of 18 stories, each highlighting a different aspect of the industry. This collection provides an enriching, thought-provoking look into a business that many believe to be globally mature, but as these stories intimate, are increasingly local, emerging, and evolving with the global economy. Features and Benefits: Examples of the complex business situations in oil and gas and how excellent (and sometimes less-than-excellent) leaders navigate these difficult circumstances. Insights into the decision making of oil and gas companies from around the world Different themes that span the entire industry value chain: upstream, midstream, and downstream Timeless truths for the hydrocarbon sector and for many other businesses

Many factors set oil and gas apart from other industries and make unique demands on its human resource management, including its global nature, the importance of safety, the involvement of governments, proactive stakeholders, a multifaceted workforce, and project focus. Managing Human Resources in the Oil & Gas Industry provides an in-depth look at human resource management for all aspects of the oil and gas sector. The authors provide a full picture of human resource management and its role in staffing, training, performance management, compensation, and labor. This book is relevant to all human resource management department employees and all managers in the oil and gas industry and is suitable for workshops, seminars, and courses in human resource management in the oil and gas industry. 

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition. International Business, 8th edition enables students to become better, more successful participants in the global business place. The internationally cited author team of Czinkota, Ronkainen, and Moffet balance conceptual understanding and knowledge of day-to-day realities. Covering all key aspects of international business, the authors emphasize a few key dimensions: international context, role of government in international business, small-and medium-sized firms, and social responsibility. This new edition is even more global and user-friendly. Now organized into five parts, students can more clearly make connections between introductory material, the international environment, marketing, and financial considerations in the international marketplace. A truly global presentation draws on worldwide examples, trends, and data, and includes an exemplary case selection based on firms from around the world, from Vietnam and Russia, to Iceland and Turkey. With this new Wiley edition of International Business, students will better understand the intricacies of international marketplace, and be better versed in theory, policy, and strategic aspects of global economy.