Our oil and gas investment analyst, advisory, and evaluation services are designed for individual, corporate, or institutional investors seeking assistance on the technical merits of an investment. Kinesis conducts independent, unbiased evaluations of oil and gas opportunities. Our comprehensive, easy-to-understand analysis delivers a thorough assessment of the technical and commercial merits, identification of key risk factors, estimation of reserves and resources, and determination of the opportunity’s overall potential value. Some sectors like volatile margins, aging assets, decarbonization, ESG commitments, and digitalization are causing oil and gas companies to transform the way they allocate capital.
Any investment in oil and gas starts with the science involved in extracting hydrocarbons. Understanding the geology of a project creates a foundation for all further evaluation. Knowledge of the larger basin setting, regional changes, and project-specific geology determine whether hydrocarbons exist in a particular area and, more importantly, whether they can be produced economically. To determine a project’s viability, Kinesis methodology includes the examination of the quality of a particular reservoir’s rocks, trapping and sealing mechanisms, and the existence of a working hydrocarbon kitchen. Assuming a project passes the initial geologic requirements, Kinesis reservoir engineering capabilities evaluate data related to fluid dynamics, production capabilities, and the long-term life of the investor. Geology & Engineering Services Include: Data Acquisition / Management, Well Log Interpretation, Petrophysics, Subsurface Mapping, Geomodeling, Core Analysis, Seismic Interpretation, Reserve Estimation, Production Forecasting, Decline Curve Analysis, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Field Development
Mounting pressures from investors, customers, communities, and other stakeholders are creating huge capital planning challenges for oil and gas companies globally. Organizations are being held accountable to deliver on their financial, safety, and reliability targets—while investing in new initiatives to embrace digitalization, explore growth opportunities, increase operational efficiency, and meet Environmental, Social, and Governance commitments. To successfully navigate this challenging business environment, companies must find—and fund—the right balance of investments to demonstrate progress toward these goals and deliver meaningful results.
How can you be confident you’re making the best decisions that deliver the greatest value and drive your strategic goals?
Kinesis is helping organizations manage billions of dollars of oil and gas and petrochemical assets across the globe. By developing frameworks to evaluate all investment options on equal footing, we make it easy for investors to compare dissimilar projects—from those designed to increase safety and reliability, to initiatives that reduce fugitive emissions or build climate resilience—and create plans that are transparent, defensible, and aligned with strategic objectives. The Kinesis Decision Analytics Solution can help your organization decide where and when to invest in your business to proactively manage Oil and Gas investments, meet performance targets, maximize capital efficiency, and achieve your ESG and financial goals.
Every Copperleaf client has achieved 100% return on their investment within their first planning cycle—and every organization that has implemented our solution continues to use it successfully today. Measurable results include:
Following the establishment of a holistic geomodel and reservoir production capabilities, Kinesis can provide further insight into the economics of an investment. A calculated production forecast, in concert with the capital needs to attain that production, come together to provide those economics. Kinesis project-level economic evaluation includes analysis of net present value, rate of return, payback period, and cash flows.
Facts about oil and gas and interesting statistics sure to test your knowledge. These facts about oil and gas cover a wide range of aspects related to the industry, from its history and exploration to production, refining, and global impact. Learn more about the crude oil and natural gas industries!
The First Oil Well: The world’s first commercially successful oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859 by Edwin Drake. Source: American Chemical Society
Another of our interesting facts about oil and gas is that the United States is the world’s largest consumer of petroleum products.
In 2016, about 25% of the petroleum used in the United States was imported. About 38% of this petroleum is imported from Canada. Source: CNN World
Delivering the highest value means doing the right projects at the right time. This is no easy task for organizations that deal with hundreds of potential investment options, with multiple alternatives and start dates to consider
Kinesis AI-powered optimization can evaluate the vast number of possibilities and identify the optimal plan within minutes. Sensitivity analysis can easily be performed to explore the impact of different funding, timing, and resource constraints on value and risk, and build a realistic, deliverable plan to achieve your strategic goals
Many oil and gas companies struggle to forecast sustainment needs across the diverse asset types that exist within their upstream, midstream, and downstream businesses. Copperleaf can help your organization optimize asset performance by calculating the risk, cost, and value over time across all asset types and determining optimal intervention dates. This enables asset managers to create the best sustainment strategy while accounting for all business constraints.
As the business environment changes, new tactical and strategic priorities emerge. Kinesis makes it easy to quickly run what-if analyses to explore various investment strategies, build consensus, and align investment decisions with new strategic priorities
Kinesis enables a continuous planning process by highlighting variances between planned and actual performance. No matter what twists and turns arise during execution, you’ll be able to reoptimize plans, communicate and defend any changes to stakeholders, and adapt quickly to maintain optimal business performance
Kinesis helps organizations turn aspirational ESG objectives into action by offering a practical way to incorporate ESG metrics into everyday decision making. By expanding your assessment of project value to include impacts on ESG, you’ll be able to:
A multinational midstream company implemented the Kinesis Decision Analytics Solution as part of an enterprise-wide asset management transformation. Capital planning excellence has enabled the organization to streamline operations and transform its decision-making processes to realize 15% more value from its investment portfolios and secure a 30% increase in maintenance capital spend.
There are risks involved in all investments. The key is understanding those risks and making decisions accordingly. Oil and gas investments in particular carry a complicated and variable set of factors that affect overall risk, factors that may create significant swings in a well’s production potential that ultimately affect overall investment performance.