Kestor Offshore

Current business environment in Brazil creates a unique window of opportunity to enter the offshore E&P arena, for medium size investors. A pro-business government is fostering deregulation of the O&G industry and tax system simplification, promoting an aggressive bid round calendar and an extensive Petrobras divestment program. Kestor Offshore provides E&P companies with local intelligence for business development in Brazil, combining operational, hands-on background with management/decision-making experience, from a top management perspective. Kestor’s background covers more than 30 years of broad, multidisciplinary offshore E&P experience, covering a wide range of areas such as field/asset operations; field development projects; drilling/well construction; subsea installations; offshore units construction and E&P assets valuation/acquisition (M&A). Regarding Business Development, Kestor can support its clients with an extensive knowledge of offshore producing or near-production asset acquisition opportunities; an in-depth understanding of the Brazilian E&P industry players; and contribution to the design of a country entry strategy. Kestor can complement the client’s team capabilities with a critical review of asset assessment work and modeling inputs, validating reservoir management strategies, development design concept selection, facilities and processing performance projections, logistics support assumptions and many other asset valuation result drivers, encompassing: - Deepwater production systems fit-for-purpose design assessment (wells, subsea, facilities) and CAPEX drivers. - Production operations OPEX drivers, including integrity, maintenance and logistics requirements. - Production systems uptime and efficiency drivers. - Principles of Brazilian oil industry different tax regimes and impact on economic evaluations. - Brazilian regulatory framework and licensing processes. - Hydrocarbon monetization and marketing logistics.