"We began our relationship with ESAI at a time when it was critical to better understand the various fundamental factors driving the natural gas markets. ESAI has consistently given us an objective, valuable assessment of the markets and the interplay among all of the key components."
--Tom Price, Senior VP, Corporate Development, Chesapeake Energy Corp.

"ESAI's services have been an excellent source of creative ideas and information that have proven to be extremely valuable in our portfolio analyses. It's been a pleasure to have an experienced and highly professional second opinion when planning complex risk strategies. We hold the opinions and suggestions of the ESAI team in high regard, and look forward to continuing to work with them on the challenges of the new and evolving energy marketplace."
--Michael Forte, General Manager, Energy Management, Con Edison

"ESAI is unique in that they separately analyze both the Atlantic and Pacific Basins. This is extremely useful from a shipping perspective. ESAI is also very responsive to our requests for customized information. Their detailed trade flow data can be aggregated as necessary to accommodate a wide range of analytical requirements."
--Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., a major tanker owner

"There are three reasons that we find ESAI services useful. First, ESAI has a comprehensive, worldwide statistical database, which contains crude as well as specific products such as jet, fuel, and gasoline. Its worldwide refining industry data, like capacity, new construction, and utilization rates, are also very good. Second, I receive timely reports, such as the Atlantic Basin Stockwatch Marketview, the Pacific Basin Stockwatch Marketview, and Fundwatch, which allow me to keep up-to-date on important issues. We find the product analysis in these reports useful references when we write our internal reports. And, third, ESAI always responds quickly to our requests for information."
--Ram Khatti Manager, Market Analysis, Valero Energy Corp.

"ESAI provides the Union Pacific Railroad with a long range oil price forecast that allows better budgeting of fuel expense. The shorter term information gives us insight as to what is driving the market and helps us identify hedging opportunities, buying opportunities, and inventory adjustments based upon an examination of the fundamental and technical factors underlying the oil market. The amount and quality of information available to us from ESAI could not be duplicated in-house."
--Charles Walters, Director of Fuel Purchasing, Union Pacific Railroad

"The service I need from ESAI is a future view of the Oil Business, where future runs from the next few months to five years out. I find ESAI's approach to providing this service highly professional, but equally important is that they always show an interest in my context. When ESAI staff provides advice, they try to understand my position in order to provide the best advice. I also find the advice is always of high quality, insightful, and often brave. By brave, what I mean is that the advice or forecasts ESAI gives will 'step away' from the current thinking if the data that ESAI has (or interprets) suggest this is the case. In other words, I am confident (and comfortable) that I will get an independent view from ESAI that will add value for me. Finally, I find the staff at ESAI to be genuine, nice people who are great to do business with,"
--David Wright Manager, Strategic Planning, Engen Petroleum Limited

“Because energy markets are particularly complex and increasingly volatile, we need a sophisticated and continuous analysis of the interaction of fundamental and technical factors in order to successfully implement our trading and hedging strategies.  This is why we rely on ESAI and METIS.   They provide us with analysis and recommend strategies on energy pricing issues.  Only ESAI provides such an innovative approach.  They also promptly answer all of our urgent questions, which is particularly valuable in such a volatile environment.”                                                                    
--Fabrizio Rinaldi, Trading Manager, Edison Gas