Reserves Evaluation, Gas Supply and Operations

As gas-supply competition intensifies, participants along the global gas-supply chain recognize that securing stable and competitively priced supplies is challenging, at best, and negotiations can be rigorous. ZECG brings deep expertise in procurement strategy. Furthermore, our experience in the delivery infrastructure enables us to provide our clients with optimal supply strategies. Our gas supply professionals provide the leadership necessary to bring complex deals to focus and completion and are effective in negotiation planning & strategy, managing negotiations, problem solving and closing.

In many cases, reserves supporting a project are crucial to either a final investment decision, or project financing, or both. ZECG brings experience in the world's leading gas basins combined with expertise in estimating reserves, whether for the purpose of reporting, investment, financing or divestiture. Estimation techniques range from a variety of volumetric, material-balance and decline-curve techniques to reservoir simulation.

ZECG also brings expertise in pipeline operations, debottlenecking, compression analysis, grid-reinforcement simulation and gathering studies. In addition, our principals and practice leaders have provided strategic planning counsel to pipeline and utility clients in the areas of gas supply, regulatory strategy and operations; performed rates and cost-of-service studies; prepared filings with provincial, state and federal agencies; prepared expert testimony for contested regulatory proceedings; performed feasibility studies related to the purchase, storage and dispatch of gas supply; evaluated various gas peak-shaving alternatives (e.g., conventional underground storage, LNG and propane-air plant); and studied the comparative economics and rate impacts of various pipeline expansion projects.

Our collective gas practice combines all the requisite skills, enabling comprehensive client solutions.