Principles and Rationale behind the Strategies Followed by NOCs and IOCs
Introduction The most important economic organizations owned by national governments (NOCs) and diverse private investors that own organizations with extensive international operations (IOCs) deal with one another to constitute the largest oil industry. IOCs represent international operations companies that include western oil giants such as Exxon Mobil, BP, and Royal Dutch Shell. On the other hand, NOCs represent Rosneft and Saudi Aramco, which are state-owned companies (Dasgupta, 2009). In the