IHS New Ventures Screening Guides North African Upstream - Tunisia

Understanding competitive environments is an essential component of new ventures.  Analysis of deal flow and recent transactions, fiscal and contractual terms, ownership of reserves and production, as well as company positions are all important parts of understanding the industry structure in a country and assessing its suitability for entry or expansion.  In the first of a new series of timely reports IHS analyses and presents this critical information for Tunisia, a country which is receiving renewed interest from the upstream industry.

Example of company’s portfolio review map

• Analysis of the reserve and production ownership by individual company and by company type
• Current exploration activity and discoveries
• Overview and major gas and oil infrastructure  
• Analysis of the fiscal and contractual terms
• A review of recent deal flow in licences and assets
• Maps showing the Tunisian upstream portfolio and identification of key assets for each company with an interest in this area.

Key Benefits

• Integration into the new ventures workflow as an invaluable research and reference tool.
• Rapid appraisal of the Tunisian upstream industry structure and the position of the players.
• Overview of the fiscal and contractual terms and fiscal ranking in a global context.
• Rapid identification of a company’s licences and key assets.
• Overview of major petroleum infrastructure.
• Identification of recent deals for exploration licences.
• Analysis of asset transactions.

Example of assets transaction analysis

• Reserve and Production Analysis
• Remaining 2P reserves by company
• Remaining reserves grouped by company type
• Net average daily production by company
• Production grouped by company type
• Exploration and Production
• Exploration and production statistics for the last 5 years
• Highlights of current activity
• Oil and Gas Infrastructure
• Overview of major Oil Pipelines and Refineries
• Overview of major Gas Pipelines and Power Plants
• Country Business Environment Analysis
• Overview of typical fiscal terms
• Overview of typical contractual terms
• Transaction Analysis
• Deal volume 1996 – 2007
• Transaction Review 2003 – 2007
• Analysis of Asset Transactions 2003 - 2007
• Company Atlas
• Map(s) of companies’ licence interests; over 50 companies covered
• Identification of main assets

Tunisian Reserve Ownership by Company Type

• A 100 page report in presentation format delivered electronically as a pdf file.

For more information contact:
Mark Purdy
Tel:  +44 (0) 208 602 3853
Fax: +44 (0) 208 602 3805
Mark.Purdy@ihs.com