Industrial Company - Analyst
"Excellent presentation as usual. Excellent responses & preparation for follow-up questions."
Power Company - Executive
"The depth of research and analysis is truly impressive."
Local Distribution Company - Vice President, Business Development & Market Services
"Our group of companies have found the service a valuable tool for assessing/testing our views of industry trends with a highly credible third party such as Ziff Energy. We believe the service has provided benefits to our Board of Directors and Senior Management in strategy and development."
Power Company - Senior Vice President
"Great interactive discussion!"
LNG Importer - Portfolio Specialist
"Very detailed, knowledgeable presentation. Good interaction with audience."
U.S. Major - President
"Immensely impressive…much more detailed than other benchmarking studies."
Pipeline Company - Director
"Provides a good forward insight to market supply/demand & will assist in developing our strategy."
Major Multinational Law Firm - Partner
"This detail would be useful to us to generate our own strategic plans for the future."
Compressor Manufacturer - President
"Excellent information & presentation."
Pipeline Company - Business Development
"Great presentation, a map was available for everything. Explained all subjects very well."
Large Canadian Independent - VP
"The ‘Finding and Development Cost’ studies were comprehensive in nature allowing management to understand both corporately and regionally where improvements were needed. The ‘Reducing Field Operating Costs’ studies proved useful in helping our company realize a 5% reduction in its annual property taxes."
Power Company - Analyst
"Excellent back-up to any questions we had."
Pipeline Transmission Company - President, Pipeline Transmission
"We required an independent appraisal of natural gas supply and market data to support a major gas pipeline application. Ziff Energy provided us with a thorough analysis in an extremely tight timeframe. Ziff has become synonymous with quality products delivered on-time."
Large U.S. Independent - Production Manager
"The study was well worth the money and will pay for itself many times over."
Major Interior Pipeline - President
"Meeting was excellent. You were both well prepared and demonstrated a breadth of knowledge."
South American Major - COO
"We are very pleased with the results obtained and believe that this study provided several opportunities to pursue, and a ‘value-add’ to implement operating cost reductions in the company. We strongly recommend this study in order to help a company seek opportunities for improvement together with better results."
Canadian E&P - President & CEO
"These studies have helped us in focusing on the opportunities for improvement to make us a better company, and as a publicly traded company, allows us the ability to use these unbiased results in our corporate presentations to rank us in comparison to our peers."
Government - Senior Economist
"Excellent, comprehensive presentation. Keen to attend next one."
Pipeline Company - Director
"The wealth of supporting documents embedded in the presentation materials was excellent. There was generally a slide to address any question that arose."
Venezuela Subsidiary of International E&P - President
"I was very impressed with the work your team performed for us."
Emerging LNG Importer - VP
"Good, concise overview. Informative and well tailored."
Pipeline Company - Manager
"This was an excellent learning opportunity for me. First exposure to this level of detail."
Independent Producer - Operations Leader
"The Best Practices section exposed us to different methods of improving costs and our operations. Participating in the study allowed us access to impact knowledge, industry knowledge. Ziff Energy did a tremendous job of normalizing the data by identifying and removing the natural advantages and disadvantages of a field."
Energy Investment Firm - President
"… I wanted to tell you how much our firm has benefited from your services over the past year. Ziff has been a valuable source of knowledge in helping us evaluate the North American energy market, particularly as it relates to natural gas. One of the things that we have particularly liked about your service is that you are not afraid to be contrarian in your thinking. We appreciate this view because it is easy to get consensus-thinking, but difficult to get well thought out and critically analyzed contrarian views."
Trading Company - Director
"I was very impressed by the flexibility of the presentation to accommodate specific questions and topics with immediate data and slides. Very comprehensive."
Major Canadian LDC - Analyst
"Great presentation, very well prepared (extra slides for each question)."
Argentina Independent - COO
"We strongly recommend this study in order to help a company to seek opportunities for improvement together with better results."
Pipeline Company - Marketing Executive
"Good analysis on pricing directions."
Independent Producer - President
"The Ziff Operations study is the only useful comparative analysis of its kind that I've seen for Western Canadian operators. It addresses the most common concerns with such comparisons (geography, production type, field size and maturity) and provides metrics and graphics that illustrate relative performance."
Eastern Utility - General Manager, Operations-Natural Gas Sector
"We’ve all been spoiled by the high-speed internet service and as a result, we’re becoming impatient – if we need certain data or information, we want it now! Ziff Energy has provided me with an almost internet-like response under its NAGS Retainer Service. I email a request for information or an observation I want tested. The request is always quickly acknowledged via telephone call or by e-mail with the response provided simultaneously or shortly thereafter. It’s as if they’re in the office next to me waiting for my request."
Pipeline Company - Director
"Helps get a picture of all the factors that are involved in our business and what unique things impact how we do business."
Pipeline Company - VP Rates
"Good attention to pipeline factors / fundamentals but upon request as opposed to packaged presentation. Excellent back-up data & slide optionality."
Industrial Company - Vice President
"Very knowledgeable, easy to understand."
Major Industry - VP
"Outstanding presentation with great market insights. Very engaging and attentive."
Independent - Operations Manager
"We got more than what we paid for, which is a pleasure to say. I would recommend this process to any company wanting to move from the ‘also ran class’ to ‘best in class’."
Pipeline Company - Analyst
"The ability to see multiple charts per page is beneficial. The color coding is also helpful."
International Major - Senior Engineer
"The value for changes we implemented was estimated at $5,000,000 (per year), a very good return on investment."
Pipeline Company - Director
"Very thorough, detailed analysis."
Service Company - Regional Manager (Service Sector)
"Thanks for the gas presentation slides and speaker notes, you’ve really come though with some great information which we plan on using in our current business plans. Appreciate the support and thanks."
Regulator - Analyst
"Good, concise presentation summarizing the current situation in North America. Great charts & graphics - clear & easy to read & understand."
Major Pipeline - Director
"This was the best presentation by Ziff Energy that we received. It was among the top two or three in presentations by any consultant."
Argentina Independent - Chief Operating Officer
"The data collection and verification process was very efficient, and the report presentation is both easy to read and use. We are very pleased with the results obtained. This study provided several opportunities to pursue, and a ‘value-add’ to implement operating cost reductions. It helped us to get good comparative data and to understand industry performance standards."
Major U.S. Pipeline Company - Director, Planning and Rates
"My company has had a consultant relationship with Ziff Energy for over the past 6 years. During that period, we have been very satisfied by the quality of Ziff Energy's gas industry issues analysis, particularly with respect to Canadian supply and transportation. We find Ziff's senior consultants to be very knowledgeable in all areas of North American gas supply. Their opinions are well supported; independent and they will take a position on controversial issues. We find their work to be useful in framing our internal views on key strategic business issues."
Argentina Subsidiary of International E&P - Production Manager
"The study is an excellent fit with our strategic intents of Operational Excellence & Cost Reduction. We have already taken action in several areas and anticipate significant cost savings."
Hydro Company - Analyst
"Good nuts & bolts presentation. Good focus on information, not presentation / marketing."
Gulf of Mexico Major - VP
"As a result [of using your Gulf of Mexico Shelf study], we have been able to dramatically improve our operational efficiencies and lower our costs."
Gas Utility - Director
"Very informative, learned a great deal about market fundamentals and drivers which are key to our business."
Power Utility Company - VP
"Good presentation - well supported with excellent graphics."
Pacific Coast LDC - Manager
"Best visuals that I've seen. Relevant & informative!"
Producer - Analyst
"Great insightful analysis of our declining gas basin and the importance of LNG in the future markets."
Major Pipeline - Vice President
"Good presentation and overview, presentations well prepared, timely information."
Government - Director
"Very helpful. I'll be going to the Ziff website when I get back to my desk."
Major Service Company - Manager
"Rolo-deck info was excellent as support to the conversations. Very compelling info that outlines a challenging industry in the future."
Gas Services Company - Vice President & General Manager
"Accuracy of our revenue forecasts are of great importance. Understanding the drivers behind pipeline expansion is of utmost importance in order for us to take an informed view of our potential market for transmission pipelines. Ziff's sound knowledge of the gas supply and demand drivers has been a great benefit to us in this regard."
Gas Utility - Supervisor
"This was great, resourceful and will be a great help in my work! Thank you very much!"
Major International Law Firm - Senior Partner
"Come across as very credible and competent."
Pipeline Company - Marketing
"The stories / tidbits / parabolic interpretations were the best - use more of them."
Canadian Major - General Manager, Technology Planning & Strategies
"We find this study to be a useful tool in assessing the longer term effectiveness of our exploration and development programs at a strategy level. Overall, we find this to be a useful study and it forms an important part of our toolkit for strategic understanding."