ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT
We advise ministries and state agencies on energy infrastructure across the full project lifecycle, from feasibility and design through construction to operational management. Current work covers storage facilities, pipeline development and alternative generation.
The mandate is to sit on the state side of the table. We assess proposals, structure the commercial terms and hold contractors to them, rather than delivering the asset ourselves. That independence is what allows us to advise on contractor selection and pricing without holding an interest in the outcome.
Oil and Gas Storage Facilities
We oversee construction of hydrocarbon storage facilities, working with European engineering specialists appointed as subcontractors. Our role covers programme management, contractor selection and delivery against schedule and budget.
Storage is unglamorous work that falls in predictable ways. Sequencing, tank foundations, vapour recovery and commissioning account for most of the schedule risk on a facility of any size, and most of the value in the mandate lies in identifying those before they become variations.Oil Pipeline
We conduct feasibility work on new oil and gas pipeline routes, covering financing structure, public private partnership models and risk allocation through development and construction. Our relationships across European and Gulf engineering markets give access to established design and construction standards.
Allocation is the substance of the work. Route risk, completion risk, throughput risk and currency risk each sit better with one party than another, and a structure that assigns them badly will not reach financial close regardless of how sound the engineering is.
Geothermal Plants
We are advancing geothermal and gas fired generation projects alongside relevant energy and oil ministries. Our mandate spans development, construction and ongoing operation, with responsibility for programme administration at each phase.
Geothermal carries resource risk that conventional generation does not. The reservoir has to be proven before major capital commits, which makes phased development and disciplined stage gates more important here than in a thermal build, and makes the administration of those gates a substantive part of the mandate.
These are projects of national significance to the states that commission them, and they are delivered on that basis: long horizons, disclosed costs and accountability for outcomes at each phase. Infrastructure of this kind outlasts the administrations that approve it, and it should be structured so that it does.