The determinant of capital structure for oil and gas companies in Malaysia / Mahazan Mohammad

The issue of dividend to the shareholders and issue about oil and gas price is very current issue for nowadays. A few oil and gas company are unable to pay dividend to their shareholders because of the fluctuation oil and gas price. The objective for this study to know what are the reason oil and gas companies are loss year to year there because of wrong decision making toward financing decision? Or oil and gas companies too much depending on debt cause need to pay higher interest to their bondholders. So this study conduct to know what are the main factor influenced in determinant capital structure oil and gas companies in Malaysia. There are 32 public listed for oil and gas company in Malaysia. But for my study I only choose 26 company oil and gas this because of availability data for that oil and gas companies and some companies just a few ago listed in Bursa Saham Malaysia so that I cannot choose the company to include in my study.