Method
Roadmap & Transition
How technology priorities get set, funded, defended and sequenced - and how that same discipline applies to the transition portfolio.
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The R&T roadmap
A technology roadmap for an oil and gas industry is not a technology forecast. It is a sequencing decision: which capabilities the operating business will need, in what order, and what has to be built or bought to have them ready in time.
The roadmap developed and implemented for Kuwait's oil and gas industry worked from operational need backwards. That is what allowed it to be carried through to implementation rather than filed as strategy.
02
Cluster-based value measurement
Research portfolios that justify themselves project by project do not survive budget scrutiny, because individual research projects fail by design. If they did not, they would be engineering rather than research.
The cluster concept groups projects around an operational capability the business has already committed to needing, and assesses value at that level. Failure inside a cluster becomes an expected cost rather than an embarrassment, and the portfolio stays tethered to operational reality.
The harder discipline is retiring clusters. One that has delivered its capability should be closed and its budget moved. Portfolios that only ever add clusters end up defending history.
03
Alternative energy roadmap
The alternative energy roadmap authored for KPC covered a ten-year horizon and was accompanied by major solar projects taken from origination into the portfolio.
The determining work in a transition roadmap is structural, not aspirational. Which entity holds the asset, what return threshold applies to it, and who inside the organisation is measured on the outcome.
04
New-energy investment structuring
The KPC NET programme required corporate restructuring before international new-energy investment could be made workable.
That ordering - structure before target-setting - is the transferable lesson for any hydrocarbon-based organisation building a transition portfolio. A roadmap that answers the structural questions can survive a change of leadership; one that only sets targets tends not to survive the first bad quarter.
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