Overview
To maximize returns from your crude oil, refined products, and gas resources, you need to select the transportation option that moves the most product at the lowest cost and risk. Assessing the relative benefits-versus-risks of moving product via pipeline or tankers is a core element of GaffneyCline™ energy advisory’s project feasibility analysis expertise.
Capture your crude shipment’s full value
At a conceptual level, our infrastructure specialists assess the optimal transportation option for moving crude oil volumes. This includes:
- Building accurate assessments of pipeline transportation costs, which includes accounting for the anticipated production profile.
- Assessing tariffs when using existing pipeline infrastructure and analyzing the technical and economic feasibility of building new pipeline capacity.
- Scoping the optimal pipeline route and developing appropriate pipeline capital and operating costs while accounting for the expected throughput profile, topography, and materials.
- Analyzing the costs and risks of moving crude oil volumes by marine tankers, which includes estimating the likely capital and operating costs of commissioning a newbuild tanker and assessing time charter rates based on prospects for shipping markets.
For both pipelines and tankers, GaffneyCline energy advisory gives you insights into the strategic risks of any transportation choice, with a specific focus on the potential for supply-to-market disruption.
Move refined products with minimal risk
For refined products, GaffneyCline energy advisory takes a similar reasoned, methodical approach. We help you fully assess the upsides and risks of product shipment via single– or multi-product pipelines or tankers. We also analyze the prospects for "clean" and "dirty" tanker rates, an integral element of assessing the economic feasibility of targeting sales into a particular market.
Optimize gas transport in any form to anywhere
In the gas arena, GaffneyCline energy advisory helps you understand the costs and complexities of gas transport in any form. Where the scale of gas resources allows, we leverage our experience in LNG project development, transportation, and end markets to assess the feasibility of moving liquified gas. These capabilities extend to investigating the economics of delivering bulk gas to distant markets in compressed or hydrate form.
In parallel, GaffneyCline energy advisory examines gas pipeline supply options. By establishing end-market pricing and offtake drivers, and using in-house development cost data and our economic models, we help you fully assess the overall feasibility of pipeline gas deliveries.
Contact your Baker Hughes representative to learn how GaffneyCline energy advisory can help you select the optimal option for moving your hydrocarbons to market.