Petroleum

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ESAI offers a customized petroleum service designed to meet each of our client's individual needs. We offer flexibility in terms of the types of analyses and forecasts clients receive, and we offer clients the option of customizing a package that falls within their allotted budgets. Download an overview of ESAI's Petroleum Service.

ESAI also offers a specific service aimed at Oil and Gas Producers. Download an overview.

ESAI petroleum clients receive:

  • Direct access to experienced, senior analysts. Our team includes some of the most respected names in the energy world who are quoted daily on Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Energy, and in newspapers worldwide.
  • Specific assessments upon which to base market decisions. Unlike many consulting companies that offer clients a range of scenarios, ESAI gives clients its best assessment of the market's path (with all supporting assumptions), against which clients can evaluate their strategies.
  • Reliable data. ESAI has the most comprehensive database of petroleum supply, demand, inventories, and refining developments in the world. This database contains empirical data on over 120 countries dating back to 1978. Our analysts update the database daily relying on primary source contacts instead of secondary sources.
  • Innovative analysis. ESAI analysts constantly find new ways to analyze market information. ESAI pioneered the Global Crude Balance, refiner purchasing, and the integration of physical and paper market analysis as unique ways to view petroleum markets.

Petroleum Retainer Services

Our clients obtain direct access to some of the most respected analysts in the world. Our analysts save you time and money by acting as an extension of your research team. They constantly monitor, analyze, and synthesize the petroleum markets so you don't have to. Our retainer clients receive:

  • Customized research. ESAI clients interact directly with our senior analysts. We answer our client's market, industry, or price questions, providing them with memos or spreadsheets within 48 hours of their request.
  • Market analysis and price forecasts. Our clients receive six market analysis and price forecasts per month, including a twice-monthly short-term outlook on oil prices and monthly market reviews covering the Pacific Basin and Atlantic Basin. ESAI also keeps clients abreast of developments in Europe, Russia, China, and offers a two-five year outlook on crude oil and petroleum products. In addition to our extensive regional coverage, we offer forecasts on a variety of products, including crude oil, gasoline, distillate, jet fuel, and residual fuel oil.
  • Constant communication. Ad-hoc memos and faxes to help you analyze fast-breaking changes in the energy markets.

Customized Consulting

ESAI offers customized consulting on a project-by-project basis for clients. Past and ongoing projects include:

  • An in-depth analysis of the relationship between petroleum industry deregulation and energy security policies for the government of an Asian industrial country.
  • A market outlook for various automotive fuels (clean diesel, methanol in fuel cells, ethanol) for a major automobile manufacturer.
  • A detailed critique of fuel procurement policies of a department of the U.S. government.
  • An industry competitiveness evaluation of the Middle East and African petroleum product markets for an Africa-based refiner.
  • An arrangement to provide expert witness testimony in a pricing dispute for a major international oil and gas company.

For more information on ESAI's petroleum services, please contact us at 781.245.2036 or email esai@esai.com.

 

 

 
 
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