- Emerging climate change issues and resultant sustainability issues are leading to intense debate among various non-governmental bodies and putting pressure on governments to relook at policy measures.
- In turn, these developments are also forcing businesses to relook at their business practices and models to make it sustainable and conform to environmental needs.
- Fossil fuels being a major contributor to climate change is undergoing a major transformation so as to remain in contention with the emerging renewables sector.
- The climate change and sustainability focus are creating new opportunities for both the conglomerates and the governments. AGR has a strong presence in the energy and environment domain and straddles the entire knowledge value chain.
- AGR with in-depth energy industry experience brings a unique combination of strategic intellect and tactical execution to the client, wherein the experts leverage their insights across the entire energy value chain.
Coverage
AGR brings in decades of expertise and global experience in the field of energy and clean technologies and pollution control. In oil & gas, we have strong project experience supporting `Fortune’ majors from upstream exploration to downstream distribution and petrochemicals including unconventional sources such as oil sands, shale and hydrates. In the renewables space too, we have built a sizeable research portfolio covering all sub-segments and storage devices including work across the value chain.
- Oil and gas: The industry has been instrumental in fueling the rapid growth of the economies. The industry’s role in energy security and the development of related world-scale industries such as petrochemicals cannot be underestimated. We have a good understanding of the sector across the value chain from the exploration stage to downstream processing to distribution and sales. We can appreciate the practical nuances of the oil and gas sector operations due to our rich industry experience backed by the chemical engineering background.We also have experience in the unconventional sources of energy which includes oil sands, shale gas, gas hydrates etc.
- Renewable Energy: built a sizeable and enviable portfolio of research projects in the renewable energy segment covering solar, wind, biofuels and storage devices. Our close association with some of the large players in the industry has helped us gain first-hand insight into the market developments and technology evolution that is taking place globally.
- Clean Technology & Waste Management: AGR has a good grasp of technologies, processes, equipment and viable market structures used by players involved in the management of air pollution control, water purification, waste management and other services.
Capabilities
AGR provides a range of services aimed at facilitating strategic planning and supporting tactical decision making at the clients’ end. Our growth solutions have helped our clients successfully foray into new markets, launch new products, consolidate their market position and understand customers and competitors better. We take enough pride in seeing our solutions resulting in market leadership of our client’s business.
- New Market Foray
- Competitive Intelligence
- Partner Identification
- Industry Landscape
- Other Support Services
New Market Foray
Industry landscaping and market mapping studies are undertaken to support and augment long term strategic decision making of our clients. Accordingly, AGR undertakes the 360-degree analysis of the market as well as the industry to provide holistic and comprehensive inputs for the decision making process.
Competitive Intelligence
AGR provides a continuous stream of competitors’ activities. We do scan all the information available in the public domain and its implications on the client’s business
Partner Identification
Be it supply chain partners for sourcing and distribution or acquisition targets, AGR uses a Multi-stage Identification and Screening Process and use of objective factors to shortlist the right partner for the client. Following this, we do undertake detailed interviews with various stakeholders connected with the potential partner to validate various claims.
Industry Landscape
Clients have been seeking AGR’s expertise to develop real-time basis comprehensive reports to keep them abreast of evolving Market Scenario and Facilitate Business Planning. AGR has also pioneered the use of interactive analytical and business intelligence tools to develop industry reports like Market Insight Reports focusing on supply, demand, competition, prices and trade
Other Support Services
AGR provides a host of support services targeted at various functions within an organization. We provide information and data on quick turnaround or validate specific information or conduct expert interviews on a request basis for corporations, consultant, industry bodies, government and financial institutions.
We do build specialized database for Marketing and Business Development, Product Development, Sourcing and Strategic Planning Functions. We also provide information and analysis support for M& A transactions, Asset management team or for project group in an organization. We are quite flexible and adept in building custom templates or incorporating client models and frameworks for such deliverables
Assignment Examples
Upstream and refineries Maintenance
AGR conducted a study for a global energy major to understand maintenance services in the upstream and refineries (oil and gas industry) across the globe
Commercial hydrogenation
Partner identification study to find a global commercial hydrogenation contract manufacturer (“Toller”) for processing liquid bio-feed
Wind energy
Conducted a market entry study for forging components used in the wind energy industry in China
Refining
Assessment of competitive positioning of key players in the crude oil refining market in a “carbon-constrained” world by collecting and analyzing various data points/levers
Tubular/pipes/oil country tubular goods (OCTG)
To investigate various supplier/coating applicators in the Asia-Pacific with a focus on China for the coating of tubular/pipes/OCTG application
Solar Panels
The client requested to understand the potential for PVDF films used in the solar panel as backsheets in the North-America and Europe markets
Knowledge Center
CASE STUDIES:
VALUE DELIVERED
- The analysis identified 25 bottlenecks across the wind and PV sectors, of which several were likely to severely constrain the deployment of renewable energy technologies.
- Recommendations were also provided to significantly reduce the likelihood of occurrence of the identified bottlenecks.
- Our paper was published and circulated to all the member nations for further action.
VALUE DELIVERED
- The study insights helped the client to understand the existing positioning and changes needed to improve the same.
- Insights on how differentiated experience and service is perceived by users helped the client work on the differentiated proposition and reposition the brand with a new promise.
VALUE DELIVERED
- The linguistic research helped check conformance of brand name with the cultural, religious, regional and political sentiments and ethos of consumers worldwide.
VALUE DELIVERED
- The client was able to improve market share in Europe and North America besides traditional markets in Japan and China.
VALUE DELIVERED
- AGR helped the client with a detailed understanding of the current status of technologies to remove NH3 and HCN from syngas streams.
- It helped the client team understand key competitors, emerging players and their capabilities.
- The client was able to make an informed decision on shortlisting technologies for the commercial evaluation.
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