The company’s access to international markets in the fiercely competitive oil and gas sector is only possible if advanced management methods are used. The international market is extremely spacious, which creates significant opportunities for companies in the oil and gas sector. However, it also puts forward additional requirements for management. The export–import policy of the company in the oil and gas sector requires a specific approach to maintain the competitiveness of oil and gas products and companies directly from quantitative and qualitative parameters and more diligent adherence to marketing principles and methods. In the globalization context, foreign economic activity is the main component of the company’s evolutionary development in the gas and oil sector. For a long time, the economic literature has been spreading the opinion that globalization is one of the strategies of oil and gas companies to conquer foreign markets. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.