tailieunhanh - Ranking Canadian oil and gas projects using TOPSIS

In this paper, we introduce a multi-criteria decision making method, which helps us rank different projects in terms of investment. The proposed study considers different investment factors including net present value, rate of return, benefit-cost analysis and payback period along with the intensity of green gas effects for ranking the present oil and gas projects in Canada. | Ranking Canadian oil and gas projects using TOPSIS Journal of Project Management 2 2017 87 92 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage Ranking Canadian oil and gas projects using TOPSIS Seyed Jafar Sadjadi and Soheil Sadi-Nezhad Department of Finance and Statistics University of Waterloo Waterloo Canada CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history One of the primary concerns for investment in oil and gas projects is to have a comprehensive Received March 5 2017 understanding on different issues associated with this industry. The industry is mainly influ- Received in revised format July enced by the price of oil and gas and in some events many production units have been forced 16 2017 to shut down solely because of low price of oil and gas. Environmental issues are other important Accepted August 2 2017 Available online factors which may put pressure on Canada s political affairs since the country has strong com- August 5 2017 mitment to reduce green gas effect. In this paper we introduce a multi-criteria decision making Keywords method which helps us rank different projects in terms of investment. The proposed study con- Oil and gas industry siders different investment factors including net present value rate of return benefit-cost anal- TOPSIS ysis and payback period along with the intensity of green gas effects for ranking the present oil Green gas effect and gas projects in Canada. 2017 Growing Science Ltd. 1. Introduction During the past few years various giant Canadian pipeline projects have been continuing to move through the approval process. There have been also an increase rate of pressures and industry lobbies have been pushing back against discussions that their projects would not compatible with actions on climate changes Badiru amp Osisanya 2016 . There are presently various oil and gas projects underway in Canada including Northern Gateway Energy East Keystone XL Trans Mountain Pacific Northwest