Gambit will soon know the value of the lease with some precision. Maxco is bidding with no such precise information. Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. Apache Corp. This case focuses on evaluation and execution of a creative financing structure that allows the buyer and seller to reallocate oil price risk. Harvard Business School Case Natomas North America - Discusses incentive compensation plans for exploration risks and management in an oil exploration and development company.
Plans are unique because of inclusion of bonuses based on the present value of oil in the ground.
Harvard Business School Case Ocean Drilling, Inc. - Management must choose between two mutually exclusive bids to build two drilling rigs. Both bids involve attractive export credit financing denominated in foreign currencies. The case involves the dismantling of an oil storage facility and tanker loading buoy. This is an internal entry decision, and the case describes Sweco's existing businesses as well as the mud-processing industry and competitors. The president of a natural-resource exploration company has to decide whether to invest in a new drilling opportunity.