GaffneyCline is a global consultancy offering technical, commercial and strategic advice to the petroleum sector. The company’s expertise is the business of petroleum, reflecting an unparalleled track record in:
- Exploration, development and production evaluation and operations
- Field development and rehabilitation
- Reserves and resources reporting requirements or statutory reporting or financing purposes
- Due diligence property evaluation and valuation for acquisition, divestiture or dispute resolution
- Midstream and downstream facilities and economic evaluation
- Advice to Sovereigns on petroleum licensing, depletion and fiscal policy and maximizing resource potential
The company’s client base ranges from the smallest start-up to the largest major, and includes governments, ministries, national oil companies, banks and transnational financial institutions.
Key Services
Resource Assessment & Development
GaffneyCline has well over 50 years of experience quantifying oil and gas reserves at all stages in the exploration and production process, from the earliest exploration activity through to mature field management. For resource assessment the company have experts covering the full technical subsurface spectrum of capabilities: geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and reservoir engineers. In addition, GaffneyCline employ a wide range of facilities engineers, economic and market analysts and financial modelers with deep experience in optimizing economic value by advising on selection of the most valuable development option given reserves, costs, market fundamentals and fiscal terms. These capabilities can also be deployed to support industry clients through the production phase, and in interactions with lenders, investors, regulators, host governments and other third parties.
Technically grounded investment evaluations
Leveraging teams of multidisciplinary professionals with extensive experience as both executives and practitioners, GaffneyCline provides resilient, real world advice. This is achieved through a dialog between technical and commercial professionals who understand the drivers of industry players and can estimate the value of assets based on their unique characteristics in an ever-changing environment.
Through their unique global experience, GaffneyCline’s economists are trusted advisors to Sovereigns promoting their country’s resources, to executives optimizing their company’s portfolio, and to shareholders valuing their investments. GaffneyCline provides strategic and commercial counsel for industry milestone transactions and has done so for decades.
Navigating the complexities of the gas value chain
Understanding the fundamental economics of gas production and consumption, and the risks along the value chain, has become a complex problem for governments, resource holders, midstream investors and end-users alike. The global gas sector is changing with new gas resources becoming available for development and the growing challenges of climate change and renewables to consider.
GaffneyCline’s experienced professionals translate these complexities into manageable and understandable recommendations to assist with investment decisions, contract terms, technology choices, and project structuring alternatives.
Through the combination of expertise, up-to-date market understanding, and the ability to convey recommendations aligned with client needs, GaffneyCline delivers advice and analysis that is objective, accurate, and actionable.
Carbon Management & Energy Transition
The Carbon Management practice at GaffneyCline builds on their oil and gas expertise by performing technical, commercial and strategic assessment of carbon & climate risks and opportunities. This provides trusted, 3rd party due diligence to our clients in their evaluations, reporting requirements, permit applications, and financial transactions.
Refining & Petrochemicals
GaffneyCline have experienced Downstream staff who, in addition to working on a range of assignments for GaffneyCline’s clients, have spent many years working for a number of the sector’s key Refining and Petrochemical players.
GaffneyCline incorporate multi-disciplinary experts including:
- economists,
- subsurface experts,
- facilities & cost engineers,
- gas & LNG market specialists,
- refinery & petrochemicals experts, and
- carbon/emissions management experts
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