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Part 2: Relationships changing as NOC, IOC roles evolve

04/02/2007
International oil companies (IOCs) find themselves in new and complex relationships with their government-owned counterparts. As noted in the first part of this two-part series, national oil companies (NOCs) have gained regulatory and commercial influence from the combination of resource ownership and finances strengthened by elevated oil and gas prices. Many of them are using that influence to change terms of participation with IOCs and, in some cases, to become international competitors in their own right (OGJ, Mar. 26, 2007, p. 18).Increasingly, IOCs work with NOCs as primary contractors on projects to provide technical and oil field management expertise as well as financing. They also...
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