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Articles by Sam Linder
Don’t cancel or coddle at-risk capital projects—challenge them
Today’s volatility leaves multibillion-dollar capital projects with little room for error. A new approach to stress testing helps keep them on track. Findings from economic geographer Bent Flyvbjerg, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management (Oxford University Press, June 2017), confirm a stark reality: Out of a database of 16,000 projects, only 8.5 percent met their cost and schedule targets, and a mere 0.5 percent achieved all promised benefits.
A New Approach to Curb Megaproject Overruns
Megaprojects are notorious for cost and schedule overruns but a new, practical approach is helping to minimize risk and keep projects on track. Large, capital-intensive projects have suffered from perennial underperformance and overruns—especially in industries such as energy, chemicals, and technology. Layer in today’s geopolitical tensions and market uncertainty, and it’s becoming ever-more important to keep megaprojects on track while determining—objectively—whether they remain viable or not.
Capex excellence in oil and gas: Innovations for market challenges
Like many industries, the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry is facing challenges on several fronts: volatile commodity markets driving higher cost inflation, geopolitical instability causing supply chain disruptions, competition for construction talent and labor in certain geographies such as North America, and increasing pressure to accelerate bringing new production online.
Capital projects are critical for a green future
Constructing new decarbonization assets can help achieve net-zero targets—but doing so requires fundamentally rethinking project costs to accelerate development. Capital is critical to tackling climate change. According to McKinsey analysis, meeting net-zero targets will require spending $9.2 trillion a year on physical assets between now and 2050, up from $3.5 trillion today.
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