IHS Energy Consulting

IHS Energy Consulting crafts pragmatic solutions for corporate and government clients around the globe to help them excel in the current energy market and anticipate its rapidly changing future. Drawing upon the broad IHS expertise in energy strategy, shipping, macroeconomics, energy company valuations and transactions and security, our consultants deliver an integrated service that is truly unparalleled in its depth and breadth.

Our clients receive strategic support to:

• Discover growth opportunities
• Reduce exploration risk
• Cut production costs
• Ensure regulatory compliance
• Optimize investment in IT systems
• Assess and maximize asset values
• Prioritize investments
• Understand market trends and drivers
• Make big bet decisions
• Evaluate the value of energy transactions
• Manage projects

Benefits

IHS Energy Consulting enables you to:

• Prioritize and maximize investment opportunities while minimizing project and regulatory risks
• Gain insights into fundamental market drivers for supply, demand and price of key energy forms
• Achieve a global and integrated perspective across fuels, industries, and geographies
• Develop robust strategic alternatives to manage sudden change
• Leverage IHS’s extensive databases, project evaluation tools and project, negotiation and licensing round support
• Implement a fiscal, regulatory and legal regime that balances the interests of state treasuries and foreign investors

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IHS Energy Consulting features more than 100 experts, including the following lead consultants in each of our practice’s four main areas:

Upstream

Nick Lowes, IHS CERA Vice President, has over 25 years experience across a broad range of oil and gas company business. He has worked as a consultant to many national and international oil and gas companies on issues ranging from strategy development and organizational efficiency to project and technology management. He has also led reorganization and process re-engineering exercises, and has designed and implemented corporate and project management systems. Mr. Lowes holds a BA from Cambridge University; an MBA from the UK Open University Business School; and an MSc from Imperial College, London University.

Midstream

Shankari Srinivasan, IHS CERA Managing Director Europe, Global Gas, heads IHS CERA’s European gas research and is responsible for client communications. Ms. Srinivasan has worked on numerous tailored consulting assignments for clients, including major gas producers, European utilities, and financial investors. She has extensive experience in providing strategic analysis and recommendations at the board and senior executive level.

Downstream

Mr. William Veno, Senior Director, Global Downstream, is an expert on crude oil and refined product markets, on refining and marketing, and on energy economics and strategy. Mr. Veno is a leader of IHS CERA’s global refining and marketing research activity, with particular expertise in North American refined product demand, the transportation sector, and refined product pricing. Mr. Veno is a research leader of IHS CERA’s Automotive Scenarios Advisory Service, specializing in light-duty vehicle fleet modeling and analysis. He directs and contributes to a wide range of custom research studies, including regional demand and logistics assessments of pipeline, trucking and vessel movements of oil, the production, transport and demand of natural gas liquids and oil sands.

Resource Owners

Jim Thomas, Practice Director, IHS CERA Regulatory Compliance Group, brings 19 years of environmental and regulatory oil and gas experience. Before joining IHS in 1999, Jim was a Senior Consultant with Petroconsultants, an Environmental Manager with Atkins Environment with secondment on a part-time basis to the UK Environment Agency.  Prior to this, he was a Technical Geochemical Analyst with BP. Jim holds a B.Sc. degree in Geology from the University of Leeds and a Ph.D in Organic Geochemistry from the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society.

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IHS Energy Consulting utilizes our outlooks integrating fuels, industries, and regions along with our proprietary software tools to develop custom solutions for private and public clients in the following sectors:

• Upstream oil and gas
• Midstream gas and power
• Downstream oil and refining

Whether you need help with identifying your greatest growth opportunities, making a large capital investment decision, establishing regulation for the E&P sector, or ensuring your project remains legally compliant anywhere in the world, our consultants can craft a plan that is unique to your organization, needs, and goals.

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IHS Energy Consulting Case Studies

Case Study #1 (Upstream): Reducing Operating Costs for a Mature Oil Field

Situation: A client with a mature offshore oil field producing assets needed help reducing operating costs.
Approach: A joint IHS-client team worked over 16 weeks to review, analyze and model operating costs using Activity-Based Costing (ABC).
Outcome: The client gained US$60 million in savings.

Case Study #2 (Midstream): Global Growth Strategy

Situation: An aggressive coalbed methane (CBM) producer needed a strategy to increase shareholder value in the face of a limited market for its growing reserves and production. 
Approach: IHS Consulting worked with senior management to present to the Board of Directors a wide range of growth alternatives--some that significantly challenged the current business model--and the key value drivers behind them.
Outcome: The company tripled its share price within two years after the Board's adopted the proposed two-phased strategy to develop liquefied natural gas (LNG) for local sales and expand into CBM in other countries.

Case Study #3 (Downstream): Eastern Europe Refining Business

Situation: A large independent European refining firm needed help with a legal dispute over the value of a refiner it had sold a few years previously.
Approach: IHS Consulting assessed the value of this refinery using multiple methods to point out the weakness in opposing party's valuation.
Outcome: The refinery market analysis provided compelling support for our client’s position, leading the opposition to drop the argument from its petition; our client eventually succeeded in winning the case.

Case Study #4: (Natural Resource Owners):
Hydrocarbon Sector Benchmark Analysis

Situation: With over 120 countries competing for E&P opportunities in its country, the Greenland Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum needed assistance setting up fiscal terms that would attract foreign investment but capture maximum receipts for the state.
Approach: IHS Consulting employed a variety of methodologies to determine the top eight competitor countries and compared their fiscal terms using defined criteria to those of Greenland.
Outcome: As a result of the international benchmarking analysis, IHS Consulting recommended fiscal terms for Greenland’s government that guaranteed the maximum government take achievable while providing investors attractive and competitive returns.