Energy infrastructure is central to the Middle East’s economic growth and energy transformation. The region is investing billions in power generation, transmission, and industrial assets in order to meet rising demand, strengthen resilience, and accelerate its shift toward lower-carbon energy.
Delivering this transformation is complex. National oil companies (NOCs), utilities, and ministries must prioritize capital portfolios, coordinate stakeholders, and ensure on-time delivery, while localizing supply chains, building talent pipelines, and expanding capabilities across emerging subsectors.
Strategy& drives transformation along the entire energy infrastructure value chain. We work with asset owners to align capital portfolios, strengthen operations, and maximize national impact. We also partner with delivery leaders—including those in engineering, construction, project management, and oilfield services—to develop growth strategies, build local capabilities, and expand into new markets. Our approach combines global insight with deep regional experience, helping position the sector for sustainable growth.
We align clients’ capital programs with national goals and market shifts, prioritizing investments that deliver measurable impact and long-term value.
We build cross-stakeholder delivery models that accelerate execution, improve coordination, and strengthen accountability across complex infrastructure systems.
We develop local supply chains and capabilities so they’re equipped to meet in-country value targets and build long-term resilience.
We enhance governance frameworks to control costs, reduce risks, and keep major energy projects on schedule and within budget.
We design workforce strategies that close critical capability gaps and enable sustained performance across the infrastructure lifecycle.
We create organic and inorganic growth strategies to unlock near- and long-term value across the infrastructure market and its subsectors.
We harness advanced analytics, automation, and AI to improve planning, visibility, and asset reliability across energy infrastructure systems.
Reprioritizing capital projects for a GCC NOC
A GCC national oil company needed to reshape its capital projects portfolio in response to shifting market dynamics. Strategy& developed a tailored prioritization framework aligned with the client’s strategic objectives, incorporating project criticality, stage of development, project type, sector sensitivity, and evolving market outlook. This helped the client identify a focused, high-impact portfolio of capital projects that would support the company’s long-term growth ambitions and resilience.
Developing a growth strategy for an energy and utilities subsidiary
An energy and utilities company in the GCC sought to carve out its engineering and project management subsidiary as a stand-alone entity, and to accelerate its growth. Strategy& assessed the subsidiary’s current capabilities, market dynamics, and global benchmarks, and developed a comprehensive growth strategy. The work produced a three- and five-year road map with a go-to-market approach for domestic and adjacent markets. We also supported implementation, enabling organizational readiness and positioning the entity for sustainable future growth.
James Thomas
James Thomas
James Thomas
James Thomas
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