Capabilities

What We Do

Zeus Energy Consulting Group helps both operating companies and suppliers of products and services to grow their businesses within the gas-monetization industry. Operating companies include, for example, pipeline companies, major oil companies, utilities, marketing companies, etc. Suppliers include equipment manufacturers, process licensors, engineers and services firms.

Gas monetization refers to projects aimed at either exporting/utilizing stranded natural gas via pipeline, for example, or converting it into LNG or other products for delivery to global markets. Apart from LNG, conversion technologies include GTL, methanol, DME, gas-to-olefins, ammonia, and other means of converting gas to a transportable product for international trade.

The following are three representative consulting assignments:

• Global market research and broad-based value-chain analysis for a world-leading manufacturer of cryogenic equipment in the upstream and midstream oil & gas sector. Analysis included a rigorous examination of the global markets for ethane, ethylene and polyolefins in addition to global monetization of stranded and remote gas, including LNG, gas-to-liquids, methanol, etc.
  
  
• Analysis of the aviation fuels market funded by a leading alternative fuels association in the US.
  
  
• Economic study of integrated gasification combined-cycle ("IGCC") power generation for a world-leading gas-turbine manufacturer. Study included economic comparisons of super-critical pulverized coal, IGCC and gas-fired refit.

Zeus maintains an extensive databank of statistics in connection with gas-monetization projects and markets worldwide. Zeus uses these statistics to analyze market share, pricing and success/failure of various products and services. Through our periodicals, conferences and workshops, we are constantly in touch with the energy industry, garnering information, sharing ideas and learning of new opportunities. This enables us to serve a broad range of individual clients and formulate ideas for joint-industry projects.

Our principals, executive consultants and advisors bring C-level expertise in the energy sector, including development, project/structured finance, technology assessment, program management, engineering & construction and operations. Areas of management consulting expertise include policy & planning, regulatory affairs, industry restructuring, economics, feasibility, project finance and due-diligence.

We also bring experience and expertise in engineering, program management, construction and operations in the following areas:

• Reservoir
  
• Pipeline
  
• Gas treatment and separation
  
• LNG
  
• CNG
  
• GTL
  
• Power plant
  
• Refinery
• Petrochemical

Consulting Services

Suppliers of Products and Services in the Hydrocarbon Value Chain: Take suppliers, for example. Zeus offers the following services to suppliers in the hydrocarbon value chain, particularly the expanding global natural gas trade:

• Forecasts of demand for products and services used by the gas-monetization industry
  
• Market-share studies, competitive analysis and historical growth statistics
  
• Identification of near and long-term opportunities
  
• Assistance in tailoring offerings to meet energy company, EPC and systems integrator needs
  
• Definition of decision processes used by the industry to select products and services
  
• Identification, evaluation and negotiation of bolt-on acquisitions (divestitures)
  
• Assistance to management in preparing efficient launch plans
  
• Preparation of financial plans and offering documents to obtain funding
• Identification and screening of strategic partners
  
• Identification and polling of customer management as to their satisfaction with current products

Gas & Power: In this area, our principals, executive consultants and advisors have provided the following representative client services:

• Strategic planning counsel to pipeline and utility clients in the areas of gas supply, regulatory strategy and operations
  
• Rate studies and cost-of-service studies
  
• Filings with provincial, state and federal agencies
  
• Expert testimony for contested regulatory proceedings
  
• Estimates of proved hydrocarbon deposits
  
• Forecasts of field deliverabilities
  
• Reservoir simulation studies
  
• Modeling tools for forecasting pipeline supplies
  
• Feasibility studies related to the purchase, storage and dispatch of gas supply
  
• Evaluation of various gas peak-shaving alternatives (e.g., conventional underground storage, LNG and propane-air plant)
  
• Linear programming model construction for utility planning purposes
  
• Comparative economics and rate impacts of various pipeline expansion proposals
  
• Due-diligence reviews of independent-energy projects on behalf of lenders
  
• Assistance to banks and developers in closing non-recourse project financing
  
• Estimates of proved hydrocarbon deposits and forecasts of field deliverability
  
• Pipeline compression studies, grid-reinforcement simulations and gathering studies

Project Development: Development activities typically include conceptual design, sizing & configuration, optimization, development strategy, due-diligence, business-structure analysis & tax strategy, economic evaluation (pro forma modeling), siting, front-end engineering and design (FEED) and lump-sum turnkey EPCC bid-program development & administration, environmental impacts analysis, permitting & licensing, regulatory affairs, legal affairs, lobbying, governmental relations & compliance, legislative affairs, contracts and public relations.

Zeus brings its knowledge of supply and markets to improve the client's business model, for example, locking in gross margins between feedstock and end product to minimize risk and maximize project-finance leverage, thereby increasing the return on each dollar of investment. Our great strength is in the ability to identify and affect the development of facilities so as to achieve the lowest cost and greatest efficiency without compromising design integrity.

Zeus is comprised of seasoned technologists, project developers, market analysts, specialists and financiers. Zeus team members have led the construction some of the world's largest and most advanced facilities in the hydrocarbon value chain.

Hence, we're not only well-equipped to perform feasibility and pre-FEED services, but we'll negotiate secure supply and off-take agreements with selected suppliers and consumers to lock in margins, enabling low-cost finance and ensuring high returns on equity while mitigating risk.