Project development

Our focus is infrastructure project support in an early phase, where you are trying to design a project based on a combination of technology evaluation, cost estimates, revenue estimates and more.

Infrastructure developers often have a substantial number of processes that do not reach an investment decision, and also many that reaches investment decision and is not profitable. Some of these processes are driven by groups that have a strong aligence to a particular solution, and it is helpful to have an outside group review the project in an early phase.

We use methods where we calculate project design bottom-up, where possible from first principles, based on information such as market data, energy efficiencies, carbon taxation regulation, and much more. This is in a second step compared with third party reports and other data, to achieve a triangulation effect. Most of our experience in this area is in the chemicals and fuel industry, but many of the methods we have developed are applicable to related industries.

  • Working with project design and development you experience that numbers from suppliers and third-party reports is not always equally accurate. We have a variety of approaches for a sanity check on claims, including a triangulation approach combining reports, a study of the supplier and first- principles-based analysis.

  • OPEX is often easier to calculate than CAPEX, as it can be derived from market data. The one notable exception is electricity OPEX, where we offer a separate analytics tool. For CAPEX we work with the customer to get broad approximation, including sanity checks on third party estimates.

  • In cases where you do not have a mature market for the product, or the market price is heavily influenced by carbon taxation schemes, we help calculate the prospected revenue. This is done through combining compliance cost calculations with information on competing solutions and available market data.

  • In projects within process industries, there is often much to be gained to control the electricity use of the processes. We offer advanced analytics that lets you calculate the value of the various incentives to reduce electricity consumption for peak shaving purposes. In a second step this value is then compared to the decreased production and increased maintenance cost from inserting variations in the production.

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