Gaffney, Cline & Associates
5555 San Felipe Street , Suite 550 , Houston, Texas, United States

Gaffney, Cline & Associates (GCA) is a global oil and gas consultancy that has been offering technical, commercial, and strategic advice to the oil and gas industry for more than 50 years. GCA was established in 1962 by two far-sighted oil industry insiders, Peter Gaffney and Ben Cline. These two pioneers could see that the petroleum industry needed energy consultants with broad skills and extensive experience to solve complex technical and business problems across the entire petroleum investment lifecycle.

Unparalleled integration of technical, strategic and commercial insight

GCA is particularly recognized as one of the leading providers of Reserves and Resources assessments, which are required for many purposes including statutory market reporting, stock exchange listing, development planning, project finance and asset valuation.

Full range of oil industry disciplines

GCA offers a full range of Upstream, Midstream and Downstream consultancy services from seismic interpretation, static/dynamic reservoir modelling, field development planning, facilities and pipeline engineering, gas monetisation (including LNG/GTL), mergers and acquisitions, unitisation and redetermination (U&R), as well as expert witness work.

A global presence and established reputation

GCA operates worldwide from three main offices, in London, Houston and Singapore supported by regional offices in Buenos Aires, Sydney and Dubai.

Technical, strategic and commercial consulting and expertise

• GCAs original purpose of generating business solutions to complex, multi-disciplinary problems, remains at the heart of everything we do.

• GCA provides all the expertise typically found in an integrated E&P company (explorationists, geologists, reservoir engineers, petroleum economists, development planning, legal and strategic advisors). However GCA is equally familiar with the ambitions of concessionaires or financiers and thus GCA can provide impartial advice to all decision makers.

• Although GCA is best known for Reserves Reporting (due to public domain releases), the bulk of GCAs work actually involves other detailed and integrated techno-commercial analyses across the petroleum value-chain.

• GCAs deliverables are developed for both a technical and non-technical audience and are therefore extensively detailed as appropriate.

Pragmatic advice stems from detailed technical insight

Whether youre exploring a new basin, facing challenging reservoir characterization while planning a field development, looking at late stage enhanced oil recovery (EOR) or any other technical challenge, GCAs experts have the capabilities to support you, gained from working hundreds of assets in a multitude of petroleum basins around the World.

Business solutions and advice to boost your bottom line

Almost all GCAs projects involve some degree of commercial assessment for evaluation of economic performance. This can be as simple as Economic Limit Tests (ELTs) and Net Present Values(NPVs) or involve more complex commercial modelling as required in, for example, gas monetization net-backs, or development planning scenario evaluation, or complex loss assessment for a legal process.  From its offices around the world, GCA has strong contacts with the financial markets and can draw on these contacts as required. Whether it be an IPO, Financial Fundraising, Mergers and Acquisitions or Due Diligence, GCAs reports are trusted across the financial sector as being some of the most rigorous and reliable available.  Further, GCAs in-house legal team and economists have considerable experience, on behalf of both private and state companies in valuing properties, negotiating, creating options, analysing proposals, drafting agreements and closing transactions with potential partners.

Optimizing commercialization options for maximum project value

Whether an upstream asset produces crude oil, natural gas, condensate, or any combination of these, a constant theme for any commercially successful development is the need to ensure production is targeted toward a suitable market, where offtake can be assured and the price received for the hydrocarbon maximized. In essence, assessing the feasibility of any upstream development must take into consideration the whole value chain on an integrated basis.  GCA looks at the development of hydrocarbon resources “in the round”. GCAs in-house midstream and downstream specialists provide a truly integrated solution to our clients, whereby we are able to analyze and provide advice on the best options for moving production to market. Examples may include assessing the transportation of crude oil by pipeline versus marine tankers; identifying the optimal target refining market based on refinery configuration (both existing and any potential new additional capacity) and crude oil characteristics; assessing future market demand and pricing for crude oil and refined products; and identifying optimal options for monetization of gas. Gas monetization options will include the assessment of gas reserves and production potential compared with prospects for local-market demand and pricing, or export market options, such as LNG, marine compressed natural gas (CNG), GTL, methanol and ammonia/urea. In addition to the integrated supply/demand/pricing aspects of GCAs work, our specialist midstream/downstream knowledge and skills can be applied on behalf of our clients to drill down into specific areas. These may include optimization of energy sales/purchase contracts; technical/commercial risk assessment; and strategy formulation.