Technical Due Diligence & Advisory
ABL delivers expert technical due diligence and advisory services to support clients around the world in evaluating and identifying risks and opportunities relating to any type of renewables, maritime or oil & gas transaction.
Our extensive 150 years of experience positions us as a valuable technical due diligence partner, whether your goal is in the financing, acquisition, sale or refinancing of a singular or multiple assets or projects.
Technical due diligence with your market in mind
Our energy, marine and engineering consultants combine technical with practical expertise, giving them an acute awareness of the challenges and risks facing maritime, renewables, and oil and gas projects.
This includes the likes of:
- New technology and innovation risks
- Value chain and market readiness
- Scalability potential
- Regulatory compliance
- ESG and sustainability compliance
- Operational efficiency optimisation
To address these risks, we adopt a comprehensive, multi-disciplined approach to technical due
diligence.
Our service offering includes:
- Market studies
- Pre- and post-contract reviews
- Assessment of project schedule feasibility
- CAPEX and OPEX budget evaluation
- Design and engineering review
- Technical studies
- Technology assessments
- Surveys, inspections and audits as relevant
- Payment milestone audits
- Actual project progress verification
- ESG, emissions tracking and sustainability review
- Purchase Price Allocation (PPA)
- Construction and operational monitoring
- Shipyard, ports and harbours review/audits
Maritime due diligence
We undertake maritime technical due diligence studies on behalf of a range of clients, with the knowledge and experience to support at every stage in the lifecycle of a vessel, or other maritime asset.
Our services may be called upon to support decision-making at an individual phase of an asset’s lifecycle, or even to provide stakeholders with through-life assurance.
Our track-record covers technical due diligence for all types of maritime assets, from ships to entire fleets, small craft, newbuild projects, yachts and ports and harbours infrastructure.
Renewables due diligence
Via ABL’s sister company, the renewable energy consultancy OWC, we possess unrivalled
technical expertise in the grid-scale development of all renewable energy technologies onshore
and offshore:
- Offshore wind
- Floating wind
- Onshore wind
- Floating solar PV
- Fixed solar PV
- Battery energy storage systems (BESS)
- Hydrogen and power-to-x solutions
- Wave and tidal energy
Our experience and multi-disciplined engineering offering uniquely positions us to understand and conduct thorough assessments of the wide risk profile, which may impact the long-term feasibility and scalability of a renewable energy project.
Having supported more than 100 GW of renewable energy financing through technical due diligence, our service offering is also recognised by the Wind Investment Awards.
Oil and gas technical due diligence
Our long track record in supporting upstream, midstream and onshore oil & gas projects of all types and sizes and worldwide places us perfectly to provide solid, independent technical due diligence services to support oil & gas asset or project transactions.
This, combined with our industry-recognised expertise in marine transportation & installation (T&I), operations and maintenance (O&M), asset integrity management and decommissioning, means we bring a unique understanding of the entire lifecycle of an oil & gas asset or project, its value chain and risk exposure throughout.
The value we bring
Independence.
60 Technical Due Diligence Projects.
100 GW of Renewable Energy Financing.
Multi-disciplined marine and engineering expertise.
In-house energy transition expertise.
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