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Oil and gas projects are often indivisible investments, irreversibly set in a location for a specific use. Moreover, such projects require large capital investment and have long time horizons, involving as a consequence a high level of uncertainty.
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Caron, F. (2013). Large Engineering Projects: The Oil and Gas Case. In: Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5244-4_3
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