Strategic analysis of oil and gas industry to provide appropriate strategies

Each Strategy formulation in different organizations and sectors of society is a response to the developments that are taking place in various fields, especially in the field of economics and industry. In today's world, what makes managers and service organizations different and victorious in the competition is the effective strategic formulating of planning. Despite the numerous organizations and their complex competition in today's Iran economy, these institutions' management requires managers to have suitable strategic skills to interact properly with the organization's internal and external environment. This requires knowledge of managers from the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. In this research, in order to design a model for formulating the strategy of the oil and gas industry, using a descriptive-analytical research method in the initial phase, after studying the company's mission statement, internal and external factors affecting the company's performance were identified and by examining strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities, Internal Factors Evaluations matrices (IFE) and external factors evaluation matrices (EFE) were formed. After examining the matrices, we used the internal and external factor matrix (IE) to determine the strategy type. The study in this survey has been done in Mazandaran Gas Company. After evaluation, we concluded that centralized strategies could be used to maintain the current condition.

Keywords:

strategic planning , internal factors , external factors , oil and gas industry