Insight
Exploration outperformance - sustainable or cyclical?
This report is currently unavailable
Report summary
A comparison of our latest ranking of company exploration performance with a similar analysis that we published back in 2005 reveals a remarkable absence of correlation. Today's top explorers, by and large, are not the same as those of a decade earlier. Strong results generally reflect commanding acreage positions in key emerging plays. Such plays may hold a few years' running room, but eventually mature, and the explorer needs to renew its basins of focus. This imparts a fundamental...
What's included
This report contains
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Whatever happened to the exploration class of 2005?
- Sustaining outperformance is hard – how long can top explorers stay ahead?
- Some reversion to the mean is inevitable for explorers
- Exploration cyclicity can be balanced with other renewal options
- Top explorers of the recent past are preparing their comeback
Tables and charts
This report includes 3 images and tables including:
Images
- Ten year performance ranking by IRR (1995-2004 versus 2003-2012)
- Cyclical exploration performance model
- Exploration outperformance - sustainable or cyclical?: Image 3
You may be interested in
Country Report
Global frontier oil supply summary
Asset Report
Exploration trends - benchmarking by play maturity
Questions about this report?
-
Europe:+44 131 243 4699
-
Americas:+1 713 470 1900
-
Asia Pacific:+61 2 8224 8898