Natural Resource Consulting
Strategic Value Partners provides management consulting services to three sectors in the natural resource industry: renewable energy and storage, oil and gas, and metals and mining. Strategy consulting and intensive change management for turnarounds, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic alliances are at the core of our service offerings.
New sources of oil and natural gas. New pipelines. Renewable energies, alternative fuels, and low-cost energy storage. Rare-earth metals take center stage in global trade wars. When these developments are considered alongside more stringent regulations and increased scrutiny from investors, the degree and pace of change has never been more challenging. Seize upon this turmoil to carve out differentiated positions for the long-term.
Renewable Energy and Storage
The renewable energy and storage sector is composed of companies that produce equipment, software, and systems for solar and wind projects and companies that develop and operate solar and wind projects.
Oil and Gas: Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream
The oil and gas sector is composed of companies that engage in the exploration, production, refining, storage, shipping, marketing, and sale of oil and gas products.
Metals and Mining
The metals and mining sector is composed of companies that engage in the exploration, development, mining, milling, and smelting and refining of iron, steel, aluminum, rare earth elements, and precious metals.
US Energy Sector in the Age of COVID
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This year, ten characters changed our world, perhaps forever: SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19” or “COVID”). The energy industry, most notably the oil sector, was among the first industries to experience COVID’s ferocity and will likely be among the last industries to recover.
Strategic Value Partners (SVP), a Dallas-based management consulting firm, and The Energists, a Houston-based retained executive search firm, came together in 2020 to survey energy companies and capture COVID’s impact on revenue, employment, compensation and benefits, and existing and future human capital plans.
Against the backdrop of COVID-driven uncertainties about the pace of the revenue (and profit) recovery, layoffs, and compensation and benefit reductions, we find it surprising—and, refreshing—to see energy companies thinking aggressively about talent. According to 33 percent of our respondents, their companies have not suspended any key contributor or leadership recruiting effort in 2020. Even more encouraging? A whopping 79 percent of respondents said their companies will likely add at least one new search for a key contributor or leader in 2021.
Companies with plans to add key contributors and leaders in 2020 and 2021 should expect a large and rich talent pool, the likes of which are rarely seen. First-movers will benefit the most as will companies who accelerate searches planned for 2021 into 2020. With more than 165 vaccines under development and more than 24 vaccines already in human trials, we anticipate that companies will ramp up their hiring of key contributors and leaders even faster than our survey results, published in October 2020, indicate.
To obtain these survey results, and our entire 20-page report, please complete the “Contact Us” form on this page and send us a request.
For more information on managing through the COVID crisis, check out SVP’s full library of resources here.
Strategic Value Partners (SVP), a Dallas-based management consulting firm, and The Energists, a Houston-based retained executive search firm, came together in 2020 to survey energy companies and capture COVID’s impact on revenue, employment, compensation and benefits, and existing and future human capital plans.
Where We Operate
Our extraordinary clients are headquartered or operate in cities such as Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Beijing, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Dubai, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Omaha, Paris, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Riyadh, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, São Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Stamford, Toronto, and Tokyo. Our work frequently takes us to remote locations as well.