Data Room Management for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Oil and Gas Industry

Bob Harrison is a petroleum engineer who has worked in the oil and gas industry since 1979, gaining broad technical and commercial experience around the world, with a strong reservoir engineering and petrophysics background. He has over 20 years with large independents (British Gas and Enterprise Oil) together with over 15 years acting as an advisor to many large and small oil and gas companies around the world. He is co-founder and managing director of Soluzioni Idrocarburi s.r.l. providing advisory services and training for the energy industry. He is also project director and subsurface technical authority with a global energy consultancy. Bob specialises in prospect evaluation, due diligence, asset screening, data room management, reserves audits and regulatory compliance, analytical reservoir modelling, production profile generation and scoping economics. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute, past Chair of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers’ European Chapter and served on the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Oil & Gas Reserves Committee. He holds BSc Electrical Engineering (Manchester University), MSc Petroleum Engineering (Imperial College London) and MBA (Cranfield University).

1. Due Diligence, Definitions and Doubt2. The Data Room3. Data Room Documentation4. Deal Brokers5. Before the data room6. In the data room7. After the data room8. When things go pear shaped9. Tips for quicker focused evaluation