December 2008, Quarter 0/12

IndustryMasters Oil & Gas

Simulation Run Time
The simulation will run for 12 Business Quarters (3 years), at a screen-refresh rate of 3 minutes per simulated Quarter. The simulation round therefore lasts 36 minutes - plus some start up time, as you familiarise yourself with the screens.
Your Starting Position
The intial seed capital is 75M$ and your available investment budget is 173M$. You are competing against 4 virtual competitors: Energy Corp Inc., GreenPower Inc., EncoGas Inc. and GulfOil Inc.

Oil & Gas

Oil & Gas
Bio-Ethanol

Investment: 90M$
Monthly Capacity: 11,000
Product Life Cycle: 24 months

Sales Price: 601$
Monthly Revenues: 6.61M$
Staff: 198
Crude Oil

Investment: 128M$
Monthly Capacity: 154,060
Product Life Cycle: 24 months

Sales Price: 61$
Monthly Revenues: 9.43M$
Staff: 283
Gasoline

Investment: 191M$
Monthly Capacity: 24,331
Product Life Cycle: 24 months

Sales Price: 577$
Monthly Revenues: 14M$
Staff: 421
Natural Gas

Investment: 148M$
Monthly Capacity: 1,300,000
Product Life Cycle: 24 months

Sales Price: 8.40$
Monthly Revenues: 11M$
Staff: 328
Solar Panels

Investment: 77M$
Monthly Capacity: 188
Product Life Cycle: 24 months

Sales Price: 30,000$
Monthly Revenues: 5.64M$
Staff: 169
Wind Turbines

Investment: 81M$
Monthly Capacity: 142
Product Life Cycle: 24 months

Sales Price: 42,000$
Monthly Revenues: 5.96M$
Staff: 179