GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF ACTIVITIES OF THE LEADING COMPANIES OF THE GLOBAL OIL AND GAS COMPLEX
Abstract
The article deals with the geographical aspects of activities of the leading oil and gas corporations. A complex of factors has a pronounced effect on the spatial strategy of development of each company in this sphere, the principal one being its property status. According to these fac tors all oil and gas companies could be grouped into several types having specific spatial patterns of productive assets. Main zones of activities of the leading oil and gas corporations are described in detail basing on statistical and analytical data collected by the author. Special focus is on the specific spatial patterns of productive assets of the largest western companies, as well as the mechanisms of interactions between the companies of different types.
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Goncharov R.V. GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF ACTIVITIES OF THE LEADING COMPANIES OF THE GLOBAL OIL AND GAS COMPLEX. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 5, Geografiya. 2015;(1):49-54. (In Russ.)
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