Consulting Services

Daniel Johnston founded his consulting practice in 1985, providing economic/financial advice to oil companies exploring overseas. This work primarily involved evaluation work on acquisitions and sales of licenses/blocks and oil and gas properties. In the 1980s Daniel began working for governments, providing advice on policy and strategy for license allocation and fiscal design work.

Clients

Daniel Johnston & Co., Inc. has worked with governments, oil companies, or universities in the countries highlighted in gold below.

International oil company (IOC) clients include: Anadarko, Amerada Hess, ARCO International, American Cyanamid, Bechtel Energy, Broken Hill Proprietary, Burlington Resources, Canadian OXY, Cairn Energy, Chevron, ChevronTexaco, Deminex (Egypt), ExxonMobil, Globex, Halliburton, Louisiana Land and Exploration, Marathon, Methanex, Mobil Corporation, Mosbacher, Nexen, Ocean Energy, OXY, PanCanadian, Phillips Petroleum, Ramco, San Jorge International, Shell Sarawak, Shell Syria, Statoil, Swift Energy, Texaco, Total, Triton Energy, Unocal, Vintage Petroleum, Warrior Oil Co., Woodside, and Yukos.

Governments and government owned oil company clients include: the Governor's office (State of Alaska), the Alaska legislature, the National Oil Corp. of Albania (DPNG now Albpetrol), Sonatrach (in Algiers and Arzew), Algeria, Azerbaijan (SOCAR), the Minister of Oil Bahrain, the Ministry of Hydrocarbons Bolivia, Her Majesty the Queen (Canada - Justice Department and Revenue Canada), the National Oil Company of Colombia (Ecopetrol) in Bogota, the Egyptian National Oil Corp. (EGPC), the Government of Gabon, Kazakhstan (Ministry of Oil and Gas-1996) (KazMunaiGaz-2003), Kuwait Oil Corporation, the Secretaria de Energia - Mexico, the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia, His Majesty's Government of Nepal, New Zealand Crown Minerals (Ministry of Commerce), Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) and the Director General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), Statoil, the Norwegian national oil company, the Republic of Palau, the Energy Minister of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome e Principe, the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes (Wind River Tax Authority), the Government of Turkmenistan, the Government of Uzbekistan, PetroVietnam, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the International Finance Corp.