Raiders of the lost archives

What are you doing to help your clients benefit from expert advice during a dispute, and even after it? It never ceases to amaze me…

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Skin in the game

Back before I started Epeus, shortly after I’d joined a large construction project, we were evaluating proposals for two identical topsides modules. The team had…

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‘Let’s just do it…’

The client’s own team was stocked with knowledgeable and experienced people, and they also had solid project control processes. Yet they suffered from such continual…

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Thriving in a man’s world

“I love upstream energy because it’s a very small community and very connected. Wherever you go in the world, you’ll find someone who knows someone…

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M&A: regaining alignment

It was winter, 2001, and my then employer had just acquired a competitor, inheriting a portfolio of ongoing projects. I, on the other hand, was…

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Is your expert ready for the cut and thrust?

Meetings between experts are intended to highlight areas of agreement regarding the questions asked of them and their considerations. The output should be a useful…

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Rigs, ships and razorblades

The successful bidder was rumoured to be the Gillette Razor company, fuelling the myth that when old ships go to die, they come back as…

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‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’

In a recent case, one of our experts was supposed to give testimony in Houston. After much coronavirus-induced postponing, he was summoned. By this time,…

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Lions and tigers…and shares, oh my!

This Esso ad, which ran from the late 1950s to the oil crisis in the early ’70s, implied a significant performance improvement by injecting the…

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Flat-bottomed boats make the turbine world go round

We first got involved in offshore-wind energy projects back in 2010. The Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, off the Norfolk coast, had been approved in…

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