ESG Dynamics is a Texas firm founded by petroleum engineers with decades of industry experience. We combine lightning-fast analytics of public data and regulatory filings with deep operational and environmental expertise to identify regulatory risk, diagnose environmental performance, and deliver practical insight.
Our team combines decades of oil and gas operating experience with deep expertise in environmental policy, reporting, regulation, and compliance.
We help operators understand environmental and regulatory performance, identify risk, and make better-informed decisions using both operating judgment and rapid analysis of public data and regulatory filings.
Our work includes two core diagnostic offerings: an annual Health Check for the producing base and Due Diligence for acquisitions and divestitures. We also advise on environmental policy, regulatory developments, reporting, and compliance matters as needed.
For the producing base
A Health Check is a diagnostic review of the producing asset. It establishes a baseline of regulatory compliance, filing quality, and environmental performance, including comparison with a relevant peer group. We recommend it annually, like an annual checkup.
For growth: acquisitions and divestitures
Our Due Diligence offering is orders of magnitude faster than the traditional way, and can be completed in as low as 30 minutes. It is the review used when you are buying or selling assets, done on demand when a deal is in play.
A Health Check is an annual diagnostic of the producing base. We use rapid analysis of public data and regulatory filings, combined with operational and environmental judgment, to identify regulatory risk, reporting issues, environmental liabilities, and areas of operational concern.
Because much of the underlying information is already public, the Health Check is largely nondisruptive to your organization. Our pre-built analytics allow us to move quickly while going deep into the regulatory record.
Review of state and federal filings against applicable requirements, including unresolved violations and recurring compliance issues.
Identification of inconsistencies, reporting gaps, missing filings, and other discrepancies in the regulatory record.
Analysis of operating trends and environmental indicators, including spills, emissions, flaring, inactive wells, and other relevant measures where data is available.
Performance against a relevant peer group to provide context and identify areas where the asset base materially differs from comparable operators.
Each Health Check concludes with prioritized recommendations: what requires action, what should be monitored, and what does not warrant concern.
We recommend completing a Health Check annually to track changes over time and identify issues before they become larger regulatory, financial, or reputational problems.
Our environmental Due Diligence is built for the speed of oil and gas transactions. We combine pre-integrated public and regulatory data, rapid analytics, and deep operating and environmental experience to identify potential liabilities and regulatory risk early in the deal process.
Because the initial review can be completed in as low as 30 minutes, diligence can begin before a Purchase and Sale Agreement is signed when appropriate — giving buyers and sellers useful information while there is still time to act on it.
We analyze state and federal regulatory history, including permits, violations, spills, air emissions, inactive wells, and other potential liabilities. Because the underlying data is already integrated into our analytics, findings that traditionally take days or weeks can often be identified in minutes or hours.
We review environmental and compliance trends, filing consistency, historical incidents, and remediation activity. Results are trended and compared with relevant benchmarks to distinguish isolated issues from recurring patterns.
The desktop review identifies the assets and locations that warrant closer attention. We use those findings to prioritize environmental risk and develop a focused list of sites for inspection.
Where fieldwork is appropriate, our team arrives with the regulatory history, analytics, and site-specific risk profile already in hand — allowing inspection effort to focus where it matters most.
Identify environmental liabilities earlier, focus diligence resources on the highest-risk assets, and determine where onsite Phase I or other field assessment is actually warranted.
Identify and address regulatory or administrative issues before a transaction is underway. A proactive diligence report can improve transparency, strengthen the data room, and reduce surprises during buyer review.
The objective is not simply to make traditional diligence faster. It is to bring meaningful environmental information into the transaction early enough to support valuation, negotiation, risk allocation, and fieldwork decisions.
Email us to discuss Advisory, Health Check, or Due Diligence.