Retained Firm Biographies
Gowling Lafleur Henderson, LLP, Legal
Sproule Associates Limited, Reservoir Engineering and Production Economics
KPMG, Tax Advisory
Epic Consulting Services Ltd., Candidate Screening
Gowling Lafleur Henderson, LLP, Legal. Gowlings is Canada's largest full-service law firm, with over 700 professionals practicing in 10 cities in Canada, Russia and the United Kingdom. With vast experience in oil and gas, the professionals at Gowlings advise on a broad range of commercial transactions, financings, syndications, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and regulatory issues. Many partners in this practice group have worked in the oil and gas industry; some as directors, others as full-time employees. They have the experience to analyze issues with a perspective that is balanced by both legal acumen and business insight.
Sproule Associates Limited, Reservoir Engineering and Production Economics. Sproule is a full-service petroleum consultancy, able to undertake integrated projects encompassing geophysics, petrophysics, geology, geo-modeling, reservoir engineering, simulation and economics. These projects are conducted using state-of-the-art software and run the gamut from seismic program management, exploration play assessments, gas supply studies, reservoir optimization studies, field development planning, gas storage evaluation and carbon dioxide sequestration through corporate evaluations and regulatory filings. Projects may range from single wells to fields containing thousands of wells and from conventional oil and gas fields to oil sands, coalbed methane, shale gas and shale oil. In short, Sproule has the skills to evaluate all aspects of both conventional and unconventional gas and oil resources and reserves, anywhere in the world. Sproule has a full-time staff of 114 people.
KPMG, Tax Advisory. KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We have 137,000 outstanding professionals working together to deliver value in 144 countries worldwide. KPMG is a Canadian leader in delivering audit, tax and advisory services. With a global network of professionals, KPMG member firms respond to clients' complex business challenges across Canada and around the world. KPMG's Tax practice is also focused on finding opportunities and leveraging them to the advantage of their client. Through tailored tax planning advice, the practice helps clients gain competitive advantage.
Epic Consulting Services Ltd., Candidate Screening. Epic Consulting Services Ltd. is a reservoir engineering consulting firm serving the oil and gas industry both domestically and internationally. Specializing in all aspects of petroleum engineering and reservoir simulation, their engineers have extensive experience with major commercial reservoir simulation software and have completed simulation studies all over the world. Epic’s engineers also have a strong background in reservoir characterization and geostatistics, and have the latest geological modeling and integrated reservoir modeling software to enable the construction of geologically realistic simulation grids. Epic strongly believes that better reservoir characterization is the key to more reliable reservoir simulations.