Companies considering acquiring, investing or providing project finance often commission independent expert consultants to provide project due diligence services. At DNV, we provide an improved understanding of the risks and risk mitigation measures, thereby contributing to improved investment decisions.
Purpose
Your business may at times require independent assessment, review or verification of a business issue for a variety of reasons, such as internal audit support, project financing/investment reviews, or partner reviews. These 'project due diligence' services can cover both technical and commercial areas.
Benefits
DNV provides clients with:
- Independent expert advice on technical or commercial matters
- Improved understanding of the risks, as well as risk mitigating actions
- In-house technical and business expertise
- A number of consultancy services from a single source.
Our experience
DNV is recognised as one of the world’s leading international providers of project due diligence services to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Clients include energy companies, petrochemical companies, investment companies and finance institutions.
We have experience with drilling units, light well intervention vessels, fixed or floating oil/gas production platforms and terminals, LNG export or import terminals, pipelines, subsea developments, a number of different oil and product tankers and LNG carriers, as well as petrochemical plants.
We also work with clients in other sectors, particularly within retail, leisure, food, transport, support services, health, bio-tech, public and utilities.
Our approach
With teams that combine business and technical expertise, we help the client build a comprehensive understanding of business challenges, and provide independent reports, monitoring and advisory services.
Key areas of competence include:
- Environment
- Health
- Safety
- Facility design
- Site assessment
- Permits
- Licenses
- Reserves
- Asset valuation
- Project execution and scheduling
- Capital and operating cost assessment
- Operating and maintenance philosophy
- Project performance
- Contracts and purchase orders
- Economic analysis.
DNV regularly acts as an ‘independent consultant’, ‘independent engineer’ or ‘technical advisor’ on behalf of its clients.
Typical services include:
- Independent expert advise on technical or commercial matters
- Improved understanding of the risks as well as risk mitigating actions
- Monitor the condition, progress or performance of an entity involved in the transaction.