We help clients navigate today’s high-paced and interconnected markets with deep industry experience, rigorous analytics, cutting-edge tools, and unwavering commitment to impact.
How we work
Our global team of downstream specialists includes more than 250 consultants with diverse profiles, ranging from technical experts and data analysts to seasoned external advisors. We invest deeply in developing tools and methodologies to decode and translate complex global markets into relevant insights for our clients.
Building lasting capabilities is also central to our mission. Our Energy Insights group provides proprietary analyses and forecasts, combining our global energy know-how, leading proprietary data, and cutting-edge modelling tools with a specialized team of topical and data analysts to deliver bespoke analysis, insights, and products to energy players.
Examples of our work
Since 2009, McKinsey has served 90 percent of the global top 20 oil and gas companies in more than 550 projects on downstream strategy and operations. Our experience across all segments and regions gives us critical insight into what it takes to achieve performance and operational excellence. Our recent work for downstream oil and gas companies include:
Improving Refining System Operations
Identifying Digital Solutions
Supporting a Major Transformation
Increasing Refining Capacity
Sustainable Sales Improvement
Achieving Operational Improvements
Defining a Comprehensive Business Building Strategy
Featured capabilities
We invest heavily in developing proprietary tools, databases, and methods, including:
- Refinery Reference Desk, a comprehensive resource that explains downstream industry terminology and concepts.
- Global Energy Perspective, a granular, forward-looking demand model covering 21 regions, 34 fuel types, and 25 sectors that supports customized scenario creation and drivers-based analyses of global and regional fuels demand in the medium and long-term time frames.
- Global Downstream Model, a country-level global flows model providing granular outlooks on regional downstream markets, including global and regional refining conditions; interregional crude, product, and intermediates flows; and regional product balances.
- OilDesk, an equilibrium price calculator that generates crude and refined product-price forecasts for major product markets under multiple demand scenarios.