Financial Services

Financial Services – Oil & Gas

Accounting solutions for oil & gas reporting companies.

Tax and fiscal services

  • Stability agreements covering fiscal regime over project life, involving negotiation of direct and indirect taxation imposts (royalties, payroll taxes; expatriate taxation, production based taxes)
  • Taxation structuring for acquisitions, divestments, mergers, capital raisings, including international tax aspects and maximising returns to owners
  • Transfer pricing reviews
  • A country’s fiscal and legal framework (including licensing, pricing structures)
  • Cash bidding or other similar type arrangements
  • Tax loss availability

Financial modelling & services (Project based)

  • Project capital and operating costs modelling
  • Economic and taxation for particular fiscal regimes
  • Corporate financial models including financial performance
  • Cash flow models
  • Value drivers (what are the value drivers in the project being considered)
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Financial risk profile of the project
  • Facilitating strategy meetings/reviews

Valuation consulting for

  • Acquisitions and divestments
  • Takeovers and defence against takeovers
  • Resource/reserve valuations

Commercial arrangements

Oil Advisers has considerable experience evaluating and structuring different commercial types of arrangements such as:

  • Traditional service fees
  • Turnkey models
  • Non-financial targets
  • Sharing Risk
  • Gain share – payment is based on performance however returns are capped
  • Payment out of Production
  • Participating interest

Economic modelling – financial analysis

  • Evaluation on a Project and/or Corporate basis
  • Modelling different Petroleum Fiscal terms
  • Project risking and sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo and/or decision tree analysis
  • Develop a framework for risk mitigating strategies
  • Setup cash flow forecast and budgets
  • Scenario modelling
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Detailed understanding of uncertainty and the interplay between critical factors
  • Schedule and/or investment Optimisation
  • Generating models for project negotiation
  • Generating business plans