Every business needs data to run effectively. Most firms have multiple sources of data feeding into their strategic planning process. Once that data comes in the critical task is to find the most important data points, analyze them, and provide insights. Wouldn't it be great to have a partner in that process?

ESAI is that partner. Since its inception in 1984, ESAI has pioneered the analytical techniques that are widely used today to interpret market behavior. Many of the world's top energy companies count on our insights to run their business. When they incorporate ESAI's analysis into their organization they know the results can be trusted.

Our analysis starts with the most important thing - data. We use three types of primary source information: publicly available data, contract data suppliers, and proprietary data. Then ESAI's analyst teams use innovative techniques and industry leading models - both proprietary and contracted - to develop forecasts that contribute to our analysis. Finally, we apply our years of experience in the energy markets to predict the economic impact of changes.

It is this combination of analytical innovation and years of carefully compiled empirical data that make our services unique.

Petroleum Services

ESAI has the most complete database of petroleum supply, demand, inventories, and refining developments in the industry. This database contains empirical data on over 120 countries dating back to 1978, which is updated, from primary sources, daily.

ESAI has emerged as a leader in energy market research, analysis, and price forecasting because we have consistently sought innovation. Our research has addressed not only traditional economic analysis such as the global oil balance and the call on OPEC, but has also led us to develop new models and better techniques for assessing relative supply and demand and linking that assessment to the future price of oil. Those new models have included the Global Crude Oil Balance ™ and the Regional Refiner Purchasing Model.

Power Services

By creating one of the most robust databases of regional electricity information, ESAI can model and analyze the market in detail. It is our commitment to our clients that we create the most cutting-edge analysis in order to give them the best insight into business solutions.

Though our analytic capabilities are vast, the following two are representative of our abilities:

Pricing: ESAI provides clients with forecasts for power prices at the pool-wide (or hub) level, but also at the zonal and nodal level, where our assessment of intra-pool, intra-node, and generator dynamics takes market analysis to a more granular level.

Power Flow: ESAI has developed it's own optimal power flow modeling capability, which utilizes a Power World™ flow model engine and proprietary economic inputs. Providing a richer analysis than a traditional dispatch stack/production cost model, power flow analysis is used to assess congestion, measure the system impact of capacity additions, outages, and loop flows, and determine locational pricing at the nodal and zonal levels.

ESAI's innovative analytics provides our clients with the information they need to make more effective decisions.