energy metals and mining research & consulting founded 1973 1 headquarters edinburgh united kingdom key people stephen halliday chief executive officer website www.woodmac.com wood mackenzie is a global 2 energy metals and mining research and consultancy group 3 4 with an international reputation for supplying comprehensive data written analysis and consultancy advice . 5 in 2015 the company was acquired by verisk analytics an american data analytics and risk assessment firm in a deal valued at 2.8 billion . 6 it is based in edinburgh scotland though it has over 25 offices worldwide . the company s energy business was founded in 1973 when they started reviewing the north sea oilfields . since 2007 wood mackenzie has acquired coal specialists hill & associates in the us and barlow jonker in australia ; and brook hunt the uk based metals analysts . 7 8 9 contents 1 history 2 leadership 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was sold in 1987 to county natwest by trustee savings bank . 10 in a 2003 report the company claimed that 25 of the largest oil companies had destroyed value in 50 of the 80 countries they have invested in over the past six years . 11 in a report from the company in 2005 it was discovered that bangladesh will fail to meet natural gas demands by 2023 . 4 in 2007 a report from the company on the alberta oil sands said higher royalties will have the biggest impact on high cost low margin projects this sparked what has been described as a furious debate within the oil industry . 12 in 2012 hellman & friedman acquired wood mackenzie from charterhouse capital partners . 13 detailed history 14 1973 north sea service wood mackenzie s first industry research offering was launched 1986 wood mackenzie purchased by hill samuel the uk merchant bank with successive ownership by natwest and bankers trust 1999 bankers trust including wood mackenzie purchased by deutsche bank 2001 management and employee buy out from deutsche bank backed by the bank of scotland 2005 refinancing deal involving candover partners acquiring equity through the exit of bank of scotland 2007 creation of coal team via acquisitions of hill & associates and barlow jonker . divestment of life sciences division 2008 creation of metals team via acquisition of brook hunt 2009 refinancing deal involving charterhouse capital partners acquiring the majority equity stake in the business through the exit of candover 2010 acquisition of petroplan refinery model 2012 refinancing deal involving hellman & friedman acquiring majority shareholding whilst charterhouse capital partners retained a minority stake leadership edit stephen halliday ceo 15 paul gregory chairman 16 brian aird finance director references edit 1 . oakes elizabeth h. ; mehrdad ki 2004 . social science resources in the electronic age 004 . oryx . p. 187 . isbn 978 1 57356 477 9 . hogan william w. ; sturzenegger federico 2010 . the natural resources trap private investment without public commitment . mit press . p. 448 . isbn 978 0 262 01379 6 . a b islam m. shahidul 2009 . marie carine lall ed . the geopolitics of energy in south asia . institute of southeast asian studies . pp. 137 139 . isbn 978 981 230 827 6 . wood mackenzie . institute of petroleum . cornell university . 62 732 743 234 . 2008 . kent sarah . verisk analytics to buy wood mackenzie for 2.8 billion ; acquisition of energy consultancy boosts u.s. company s international exposure the wall street journal march 10 2015 . accessed july 30 2015 . bank world 2007 . angola oil broad based growth and equity . world bank . isbn 978 0 8213 7102 2 . group gale ; thom votteler 2002 . international directory of company histories . st james press . isbn 978 1 55862 476 4 . wood mackenzie ltd. . bloomberg . smith roy c. 2000 . the global bankers . beard . p. 213 . isbn 978 1 58798 022 0 . rutledge ian 2006 . addicted to oil america s relentless drive for energy security . i.b.tauris . p. 6 . isbn 978 1 84511 319 3 . journal edmonton september 26 2007 . oilsands projects would take 26b hit if royalties hiked consultant says . the edmonton journal . private equity deals july 5 2012 http public.woodmac.com public about our history ebrahimi helia 11 june 2009 . wood mackenzie staff set for 170m pay out bonanz . the telegraph . candover offloads wood mackenzie . the scotsmam . 19 june 2009 . external links edit home page companies portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wood mackenzie & oldid 743854642 categories consulting firmsresearch and analysis firmspetroleum industrycompanies based in edinburghresearch and analysis firms of the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 17 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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