Palantir offers expertise in global Oil & Gas fiscal regimes. Fiscal regime modelling is one of the core competencies of the Palantir team. The team has over 20 years of combined modeling experience in royalty/tax systems, production sharing contracts and buy-back schemes in over 50 countries.

• Fiscal Modelling
• Fiscal regime analysis and interpretation
• Negotiation support – bid rounds and/or divestiture and acquisitions
• Contract terms sensitivity analysis

We are able to assist with the following activities relating to exploration analysis and bid round negotiation:

• Fiscal Model Creation
• Building detailed fiscal models in Excel®, Visual Basic, Third Party software, In House formats or E3Solutions
• Creation of flexible exploration / negotiation economic models
• Fiscal Regime design for National Oil Companies

Bidround Negotiation & Support

• Contract review and comparison to other petroleum contracts
• Creation of exploration economic cases
• Exploration project screening
• Negotiation support
• Contract drafting
• On the fly economic modeling and calculation
• Loan calculations and analysis
• Farm In/ Farm Out negotiations
• Calculation of State Participation and State Carry terms

Fiscal Regime Analysis and Interpretation

• Contract term sensitivity analysis
• Identification of key value drivers in negotiable terms
• Application of Monte Carlo techniques to fiscal models terms
• Linking of spreadsheets to Third Party Systems to take advantage of tools such as Crystal Ball™ and @Risk™
• Data room preparation and conversion

Palantir holds an extensive library of fiscal models. Palantir’s library of fiscal model covers key petroleum exploration and producing countries around the globe.