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Upstream Oil & Gas Consulting

Navigate your strategic and operational challenges with custom analysis and tools

Converging market forces – including rising shale production, lower oil prices, new operational efficiencies, geopolitical developments and more – are dramatically reshaping the global oil and gas industry. As the pace of change accelerates, corporate and government leaders must make the right choices in order to identify exploration and production opportunities that promise optimal growth while also prioritizing investments, driving innovation, managing risks and reducing costs.

Our upstream oil and gas consulting team is ready to partner with you to meet these historic challenges by combining world-class information, analytics and expertise into decision-support solutions that are custom built to help you with:

  • Strategy
    Position your firm for sustainable growth despite uncertain markets. We develop assets and corporate strategy, provide opportunity identification and screening, portfolio optimization and performance benchmarking.
  • Transactions & Valuations
    Make informed decisions about major hydrocarbon investments as well as energy industry M&A opportunities based on independent, quantitative due diligence analysis that focuses especially on underlying value drivers.
  • Costs & Technology
    Maximize your competitiveness at the corporate or asset level by leveraging comprehensive assessment and analysis of costs, technologies and innovation strategies. We provide field development planning, cost estimation, audits, supply chain analysis, benchmarking and technology consulting.
  • Business Environment
    Understand evolving market factors and manage your hydrocarbon sector risks down to an individual asset level. We deliver analysis of market fundamentals and trends, market intelligence, forecasts, scenarios, market sizing and above-ground risk analysis and mitigation.
  • Regulatory
    Achieve worldwide energy regulatory compliance or attract international investment in the energy sector. We can help with country energy policy and master plans development, licensing support, fiscal benchmarking and drafting standards.
  • Subsurface
    Optimize reservoir performance by getting independent, expert support for core technical disciplines. We specialize in solutions for complex reservoirs – providing resource audits, engineering/simulations, geological studies and more.
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Our energy consultants can provide the answers you need to guide your upstream business

When energy industry leaders face difficult challenges, they rely on S&P Global consultants for answers. Click the questions below to see how we can help you.

S&P Global can screen them for you. See our solutions for: Business Environment, Transactions & Valuations, Subsurface, Strategy, Costs & Technology and Regulatory.

Our Transactions & Valuations service provides independent analysis of M&A deals and our Subsurface solutions help assess the full potential of reservoirs.

S&P Global Regulatory consultants can provide insights into energy/fiscal policies of countries worldwide and our Business Environment team can see how you stack up.

Our Costs & Technology team can audit your costs, benchmark them against competitors estimated costs and offer specific ideas for innovations to save time and money.

S&P Global upstream Regulatory service analyzes legal mandates in 200+ countries/territories worldwide so you can ensure compliance while minimizing risks and costs.

Our Costs & Technology experts can see if new systems may boost your productivity and our Strategy team can see how their use could impact your portfolio valuation.

Strong partnerships outlast industry trends

In volatile markets, businesses must innovate to survive… but it takes more to thrive. Stay ahead of the curve by working with the upstream oil and gas consulting team at S&P Global. We can provide you with the energy data and analytics you need to optimize your workflows, anticipate market trends and make the right moves. The trusted relationships that we have established throughout the energy industry over the past six decades give us the perspective to help you shape your own future.

Our energy consulting experts are uniquely positioned to help you analyze trends and identify opportunities or risks (below/above ground) so you can develop winning strategies. We provide:

  • Proven Track Record – Over the past 5 years, we have advised nearly 100 organizations worldwide including IOCs, NOCs, energy service companies, financial institutions and governments
  • Deep Energy Expertise – Benefit from the experience of our 100+ consultants worldwide including geoscientists, engineers, economists, lawyers, information specialists and other experts
  • Industry-Leading Data – Gain access to our comprehensive, proprietary databases for E&P operations worldwide, significant energy assets on the market, private oil companies and much more
  • Independent Insights – Get objective analysis that driven by timely, accurate information content (rather than process driven) and crafted to meet the needs of your organization
  • Advanced Tools – Maximize the value of data with premier analytic systems for asset valuation, reservoir engineering, proprietary operating and capital cost indexes, and other key functions
  • Broad Perspective – See how your business is impacted by other market factors. We offer related cross-disciplinary content and expertise in macro-economics, technology, defense and other sectors

Join the industry leaders who partner with the S&P Global upstream oil and gas consulting team to achieve their business goals at all points along the energy industry value chain. See how we can help you.

Experts

Bob Fryklund

Bob is a recognized industry thought leader on all aspects of the Upstream. He advises Boards, CEO's and management teams on strategic direction. He has been involved in many of the industries pivotal projects - TOR acquisition by Petrobras, a $10 billion arbitration; Oil export approval in the US; and restructuring of several of the industries major operators. He focusses on helping companies understand future trends and how to position themselves in the market. He also provides advice on how to build a better narative for shareholders. Bob has 40 yrs in the industry and has been an senior executive at ConocoPhillips as well as at S&P Global (Now a part of S&P Global).He sits on four industry Boards and is chair of the supply and demand committee at the Independent Petroluem Association of America (IPAA). He is a frequent industry executive speaker as well as media source for the major outlets. Bob holds a AB in Geology from Hamilton College and lives in Houston.

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Daniel Pratt

Daniel has 20 years of experience in the Upstream sector, helping build relationships with clients and supporting consulting and sales. His primary focus is on company analysis and understanding the valuation, strategy and performance of the world's leading upstream oil and gas companies, while providing a quantitative assessment of a company's ability to successfully execute its strategy, generate cash flow, and create shareholder value. Under his leadership, the Energy Transaction Research team is generating critical independent insights into the energy merger, acquisition and divestiture marketplace, and is dedicated to analyzing deals on a daily basis, while providing proprietary deal pricing, valuation benchmarks and M&A trend analysis. After two years as director of Oil & Gas Research at Ticonderoga Securities, where he covered North American E&P equities, writing research to serve institutional investors, Daniel returned to S&P Global (now a part of S&P Global) in 2011. Previously, he spent the first 12 years of his career in the company as a Herold equity analyst covering North American and International E&Ps.Daniel is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the CFA Institute, and a member of the Stamford CFA Society. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester, United States.

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Irena Agalliu

Irena is an expert in international energy law and economics, worldwide fiscal arrangements, commercial risk and aboveground risk investment-related issues. She has extensive experience assessing commercial and regulatory risk and advising governments and NOCs on regulatory and contractual developments that impact E&P activities worldwide and assisting governments in formulating policies.Irena's major projects include assistance to the government of Mexico in development of industrial safety regulations for upstream oil and gas activities; assistance to the government of Colombia in development of offshore regulations, as well as development of fiscal and contractual framework for shale gas, tight oil and CBM; assistance to the legislature of North Dakota regarding fiscal policy solutions to enable CO2 EOR projects in the Bakken; assistance to the government of Angola on development of E&P regulations, LNG taxation and gas market regulations; and comparative analysis of fiscal systems for the United States Department of the Interior.Irena has provided independent expert review of proposed legislation governing petroleum upstream, midstream and downstream activities, revenue management in oil and gas, as well as local content participation, before legislatures of several African nations.Irena holds an LLM with distinction in Petroleum Law Policy and Economics from the University of Dundee, Scotland and a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas and Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN). Irena was elected to the Board of AIPN in 2008 and served as vice president of external affairs for the 2009-2011 term and vice president of planning for the 2011-2012 term. She is the co-chair of the AIPN Oil and Gas Asset Valuation Workshop.

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Judson Jacobs

Judson studies the strategic implications and tactical applications of oilfield and digital technologies across the oil and gas value chain in the current role. His recent research includes the role of technology in managing oil and gas GHG emissions, new technology commercialization strategies and open innovation models, and the growing role of digital technology in field development and asset operations.Prior to joining S&P Global, Judson worked as a management consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group and held senior engineering positions with Schlumberger and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.Judson holds a BSE from Princeton University and an MS in Geology from Stanford University.

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