M&A
Tackling tax, acquisitions, and financial challenges
April 08 by John R. Beaty IIIn the late 1800s, John D. Rockefeller built Standard Oil into the oil and gas industry’s leading company through a strategy that included buying up its competitors. Since then, mergers and acquisitio...
Building a beyond-the-barrel business
November 19 by Brent PottsEnergy supermajor Total SA’s acquisition of electric and gas utility Direct Énergie this past July wasn’t the first foray by Big Oil into the world of retail electricity supply, and if a wave of simil...