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A major investment firm required in-depth technical expertise to manage risk and secure an offshore investment opportunity, diversifying their portfolio and providing access to a new market.
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Oil and gas operations are complex, expensive and the technology keeps changing. They require large investments in complex geological, commercial and political environments. Stakeholders face significant technical and financial risks, which necessitates a deep understanding of the interrelationship between assets and markets across an increasingly integrated value chain. Sproule’s advisory services give stakeholders a better understanding of value drivers, upside potential, risks, and mitigation strategies.
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Our advisory services depend on many factors – including your asset’s quality, geography, and geology. Sproule will always customize our analysis to fit your objectives. Our experts help translate technical insights into commercial drivers and decisions.
Best Practices Customized for You
Our advisory services depend on many factors – including your asset’s quality, geography, and geology. Sproule will always customize our analysis to fit your objectives. Our experts help translate technical insights into commercial drivers and decisions.
Technical analysis may include:
- Analyze geological and engineering data
- Evaluate well logs and core data
- Evaluate seismic surveys
- Investigate production data, well tests, pressure data, and temperature and fluid data
- Forecast future production rates consistent with performance to date and offset operations
- Estimate reserves, resources, and recovery factor
- Identify additional potential upside
- Evaluate planned workover, drilling, and enhanced recovery projects based on analogous operations and recent program results
- Conduct structural interpretation of the horizons
- Conduct volumetric determination of initial hydrocarbons-in-place in reservoirs where performance data is inadequate for reserve estimation
A commercial analysis may include:
- Review the plausibility of integrated projects, including capital costs, operating costs, regulatory considerations, schedule delay risk, and overall project viability
- Develop a framework for considering strategic options for an asset based on market drivers
- Conduct a fair market value analysis of assets
- Provide or audit a returns analysis and integrated financial modelling of an asset across the value chain, including integration of upstream and downstream economics for integrated projects, such as pipelines, processing facilities or LNG terminals
- Offer an integrated analysis of supply and demand for commodities, including an analysis of market drivers regionally or globally
- Develop commodity price forecast scenarios for key benchmarks based on proprietary models and scenario analysis
- Support the negotiation process for buy-side and sell-side mandates
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