Competencies: CIFAL Exploration & Production(CE&P), a business unit of CIFAL, specializes in technical and economic evaluation of oil and gas assets for financing and transactional purposes. Its geographical focus is on Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. At request of established clients, CE&P may perform similar services in other countries worldwide.   Clients: CE&P Technical Due Diligence services are in demand by western oil companies searching to acquire assets and by international financial institutions seeking to secure robust reserves-backed pledge for considered loans to local oil & gas operators. Capabilities: CE&P integrated fit-for-purpose expert teams are capable to cover the whole range of technical and project economics disciplines for each engagement (geophysics, geology, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, EOR, surface facilities engineering, process engineering, cost estimates and project economics) to provide an unmatched value to its customers in comprehensive, coherent and business-oriented Technical Opinion & Asset Valuation reports. Mergers & Acquisitions: By entering into ad hoc alliances with investment banks and corporate advisory firms CE&P experts play a fair role in execution of M&A sell-side or buy-side mandates for upstream petroleum assets where required in-depth technical expertise and high level dataroom & negotiations support skills.