Under market conditions, improvement of the management system has become a key element in the development of any oil company. The management technology of a large subsidiary cannot be purchased off-the-shelf, but can only be gradually improved. Therefore, the management of the subsidiary structure and the parent company needs to assess the changes carried out. The methodology for assessing the effectiveness of restructuring is considered on the example of changing the organizational structure of a subsidiary, because the problem of manageability is most significant for companies in the oil industry due to the scale of their activities. The proposed methodology can be used to justify the feasibility of investment decisions and increase the "transparency" of the company's management.
The activities of Russian oil companies are subject to special requirements from the state. An oil company at a certain stage of its development inevitably faces the need to change its structure (if the existing resources and potential of the company do not match the conditions and dynamics of the external environment). Top managers, guided by their experience and intuition, have a general idea of the forthcoming restructuring strategy, but it is a very difficult task for a company management to objectively estimate the scope of work to be done and resources required, to clearly define the action plan, to foresee the consequences, to mobilize the personnel for the tasks to be performed. Carrying out restructuring is an integral part of modern business management. The article presents the characteristics of the main factors of the external environment of the activities of Russian oil companies, taking into account them proposes a methodology for restructuring a vertically integrated oil company (VIC), gives practical recommendations for the formation of the executive body of the project. The presented methodology of VINK restructuring as a constituent element was implemented in the “Methodological recommendations on assessing sustainability of NK “YUKOS” development” in the framework of St. Petersburg Mining Institute Strategic Planning Center activities in 2000.
The results of experiments on radar detection of slicks, including oil slicks, at low yaw angles are described. The economic feasibility of using natural slicks at the stage of development of sensing methods, system structure and data processing algorithms is substantiated. The conducted experiments showed the ability of onshore radar to effectively detect wind slicks on the sea surface at ranges up to 7 km in a wide range of meteorological conditions. The possibility in principle of detecting oil slicks by coastal radars was shown. Detection of slicks in low wind shows the ability of radar to respond to small roughness contrast. Spots in a remote area and with weak roughness are detected using the accumulation signal. Wind slicks can be interfered with when detecting oil spills in their background. In heavy rain, slick detection is difficult due to reflection from droplets, shadowing and destruction of slicks by droplets. Environmental monitoring problems can be solved by dispatching port radars.
