While entirely a petroleum-related advisory firm, GCA occupies a market niche that straddles the technical disciplines of the petroleum geosciences and engineering and the commercial skills found in the management consulting and investment banking petroleum sectors.  It is this ability to address these interface areas that differentiates GCA’s services.

GCA’s multidisciplined, multinational staff covers all the industry’s core technical disciplines -  geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists, reservoir, productions, operations and drilling as well as facilities, process, chemical and refining engineers. Complemented by petroleum economists, commercial and business advisors, this technical underpinning provides powerful and practical problem-solving expertise enhancing the value of key corporate assets by the application of sound business and strategic fundamentals to achieve practical and results orientated advice.

Key (not exclusive) examples of these include:

• Valuation Opinion.  Asset, property and company valuations (for equity and debt securities, public reporting, “fairness” opinions, project financings and acquisitions and divestments); 
• Dispute resolution.  Petroleum contracts, investment decision-making, royalty and taxation, netback pricing, damages assessments;
• Petroleum Policy and Regulation.  Developing contractual and fiscal frameworks and processes through which sovereign resources can be commercialised and leveraged into overall economic development by private capital or other means.
• Asset Enhancement.  Understanding the real asset potential leading to EOR options maximising the value chain, optimising costs and operational efficiency.