Kingston Energy Consulting


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Sample Projects

The following is a sample of projects that we have completed recently.

Trading games and case studies for use in graduate recruitment and training

For an integrated oil company, we developed a portfolio of interactive educational materials for use in graduate selection and induction. Materials ranged from simple, short, competitive trading games designed to give university students a taste of energy trading during company campus presentations to detailed case studies based on the company's actual business operations, for use in graduate application evaluation and selection. More substantial trading games, designed to be flexible and easily updated to reflect current trading conditions, were designed to be used in induction of new joiners and to introduce support staff to trading concepts.

Evaluation of market information value

A software company that provides systems for management of oil trading operations found itself with a growing database of operational information, some of it unusual and possibly unique in the industry. We were asked to assess the value of this information to potential users including physical oil traders, risk managers, banks and trading houses, and to propose how it might be packaged and marketed. We analysed the available data and proposed four possible information services based on it. We then interviewed senior contacts in a sample of target companies in North America and Europe to assess their potential value. We also provided a comprehensive survey of the availability and cost of similar information available from other sources in the market.

Market research for an information publisher

An energy information publishing company asked us to investigate the potential market for their products in an emerging sector of the European energy markets. Through analysis of existing data and a programme of interviews with actual and potential end-users of the client's products, we quickly built up a detailed picture of the information requirements of the sector. We were also able to feed back important information on how the market perceived our client's products in comparison with those of their competitors, in terms of content, quality, price and other relevant factors. Through our independent, objective approach, we were able to provide our client with a great deal of competitive information that they could not otherwise reliably obtain. Top ^