Achieving Excellence in Exploration – Integrating Skills, Processes and Technology

B012 Achieving Excellence in Exploration: Integrating Skills Processes and Technology 1 Within Shell’s new operating model for Exploration & Production exploration is organized as a global business with unambiguous single point accountability for performance portfolio and resources. This model has been adopted in preference to executing exploration from a series of autonomous asset-based operating units. The latter structure though good at facilitating multi-disciplinary integration does not always optimize resource allocation nor necessarily provide clarity of direction and consistency of process. A dedicated exploration business can take a truly global approach to exploration strategy portfolio and decisionmaking directly linked to the