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.
Topics Covered Strategy, New Product Introduction, Product Lifecycle, Capacity Planning. Your Starting Position The intial seed capital is 75M$ and your available investment budget is 173M$. You are competing against 4 virtual competitors: GulfOil Inc., Energy Corp Inc., GreenPower Inc. and EncoGas Inc.

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

IndustryMasters Oil & Gas