Khaznah Strategies provides services in three main areas:

Commodity market research and risk analysis

• Forecasting prices, supply and demand for natural resources with proprietary models
• Integrating several forecasting methods, including multi-factor, ARIMA and GARCH models
• Evaluating the influence of over 100 external industry and macroeconomic factors on each commodity
• Mapping major price drivers and identifying economic risks which increase price volatility
• Assessing political and geopolitical risks that affect commodity markets
• Appraising specific greenfield and brownfield projects; conducting due diligence

Oil & gas artificial intelligence (OGAI © Khaznah Strategies)

• Advancing machine learning techniques beyond geological information into the area of market analysis
• Applying AI methods to corporate planning and strategy
• Evaluating geospatial imagery taken form satellites and data from remote sensors, such a drones
• Analysing big data sets from real time drilling activity, tanker movements, oil & gas storage etc.
• Integrating proxy data into market research, including construction activity data, truck counts etc.
• Employing such methods as semantic analysis of news reports and text data mining

Technical assistance to governments

• Assisting emerging-market governments in attracting foreign direct investment
• Helping governments in organising licensing tenders
• Advising on mineral legislation and simplifying subsoil regulation
• Supporting the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
• Applying blockchain technology to increase transparency of regulation
• Assisting in digitalising geological information — creating an electronic mineral cadastre