Company Research

The Company Research service is designed for professionals in investor and buy side, investment banking and the oil and gas industries to enable confident business decision making.

With over 60 years of experience in the energy field, IHS Herold research and analysis are unrivalled. IHS Herold Company Research enables you to:

• Analyze regional plays and the significant companies involved as well as resource potential through regional play assessments(RPAs)
• Conduct unbiased company assessments
• Receive an objective valuation of the world's leading publicly traded oil and gas companies
• Analyze the upstream strategy and monitor the performance of the world's leading E&P companies
• Benchmark performance for more than 10 peer groups
• Understand the impact of news and events on the energy industry

Providing independent valuation of the resource potential of established and emerging oil and gas plays around the world and the valuation impact on the companies involved in these plays, as well as detailed analysis of company well results, acreage positions, play economics, activity levels and financial strength.

Play Level Analysis

• Identifies and analyzes emerging exploration trends and plays to determine the potential impact and opportunities for companies that operate in that region.

Company Level Analysis

• Provides timely assessments of the viability and potential impact to the companies involved in key emerging exploration plays.

Providing in-depth net asset valuations and analyses on the world’s leading publicly-traded oil companies. Beginning with regional upstream asset valuations, we analyze and value each segment of operations to arrive at the company’s appraised net worth.

Analyst Updates

• Provide key insight and timely analysis on major news events and the impact on valuation, performance and strategy of a company.

Outlook and Strategy Reports

• Detailed reports prepared on significant energy companies, which provide a forward-looking, in-depth view of operational performance and strategy.

Performance Metric Reports

• Provides a quantitative assessment of key upstream performance benchmarks and financial data for more than 80 oil and gas companies.

Comparative Peer Group Reports

• These reports examine some of the key annual operational and financial figures for the standard IHS Herold Peer Groups, which are based on reserve size, valuations, geographical scope or business strategy.

Global Upstream Performance Review

• An in-depth annual review of worldwide and regional industry results and individual company performance for approximately 200 publicly-traded oil and gas companies and 8 operating regions. The study also includes additional coverage of peer group results and forward-looking commentary on regional capital spending and oil and gas reserve trends.

As part of the overall Company Research service, clients have access to a number of quantitative online tools and databases that enable the assessment of operational and financial results.

Financial and Operational Database

• Provides 24-hour access to over 1000 financial and operational statistical performance metrics calculated using a consistent methodology on a regional and worldwide basis for more than 400 publicly-traded energy companies. This tool includes up to 18 years of historical information for each active company.

Peer Group Wizard

• A powerful tool that facilitates the creation of customized peer group reports based on information housed in our financial and operational database.

Global Projects Database

• Comprised of cost, reserve and production data for worldwide fields with estimated recoverable reserves greater than 25 MMboe. The database supports multiple workflows including screening, Production analysis, competitor activity, planning, mergers and acquisitions, company analysis and forecasting. Comprehensive resource for over 1,200 oil and gas projects in various stages of development.

Global Private Oil Company Database

• Corporate, operational and financial information on over 1,700 privately held companies.

Company, Country and Regional Snapshots

• Up-to-date aerial views of our research and analysis available by company, by country or by region.

Herold Oil Headliner

• Daily newsletter focused on significant energy industry news and statistics