As the push for diversification of energy sources continues, this book provides a toolbox of techniques to enhance top-line as well as bottom-line results by successfully optimizing capital projects and operations & maintenance trade-offs across the value chain. Built on the foundations laid in Jacoby's previous book Optimal Supply Chain Management in Oil, Gas, and Power Generation and Guide to Supply Chain Management, it offers groundbreaking new ways to tap the power of supply chain management in conventional and emerging energy industries - from the small to the large project, and from solar to nuclear and everything in between.
The organization of the book makes it a handy reference resource. It starts with a conceptual framework for value chain and supply chain management in the energy sector, laying out objectives, key business processes, and performance metrics that provide useful guideposts. It offers principles that should guide investments in the energy industry and explains how to organize the supply chain to maximize their results. Chapters on capital project and operations management explain tools and techniques that are relevant to energy value chains broadly speaking. Technology-specific chapters show how these concepts apply to ten energy
Hydrogen & Fuel CellsEnergy StorageWindSolarBiomassOil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream, each separate chapters)GeothermalGas and Coal-Fired PowerHydropowerNuclearFeatures and Benefits
Roadmaps for unlocking latent value in energy supply chains for each energy typeConcepts and principles to guide energy investmentsTechniques for optimizing supply chains and systems using modern digitalization technologiesTradeoffs and management techniques in capital project managementTradeoffs and management techniques in operations & maintenanceInsights into opportunities and risks affecting the strategiesAudience
Energy industry executivesEnergy policy makersEnergy economistsEnergy lending and finance professionals, including venture capital and private equityAcademicsAnyone who seeks to understand how, or relies upon, energy markets