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Licence-risk assessment

Extractive Insight

Specialist licence-risk assessment for investors, lenders and insurers across African mining, oil and gas assets.

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Licence risk across African mining, oil and gas

Is the asset what it claims to be? Will its terms hold?

Extractive Insight helps investors, lenders and insurers answer those questions about a specific licence. It establishes what they are backing, how exposed its terms are to change, and what moves while they hold the position.

The firm works at the level of the individual licence rather than assigning broad country scores. Its assessments connect title, control, governing terms, obligations, source provenance and comparable treatment to the decision in front of the client.

Licence-levelthe instrument, not a country score
Source-linkedprovenance stays with the conclusion
Independentno issuer-paid self-assessment

What clients can commission

Four services.
One licence-level discipline.

Work is designed for the point before capital is committed and throughout the period in which an exposure is held.

01

Counterparty Review

Trace the registered holder, participating interests, chain of control, operatorship, back-in rights, charges and competing claims to named sources.

  • Holder and interest chain
  • Operatorship and control
  • Prior licence conduct
02

Tenure Risk Rating

Assess how exposed one licence is if the terms on which it depends change, with the factors and reasoning made explicit.

  • Licence-specific factors
  • Sector-specific rating logic
  • Comparable exposure
03

Asset Assessment

A fixed-fee review of a named asset across tenure, resource credibility, operator capability, fiscal exposure, community standing, route to market, capital and bankability.

  • Eight-domain review
  • Evidence and reporting basis
  • Integrated bankability
04

Portfolio Watch

Monitor agreed licences for verified changes in renewals, ownership, obligations, regulatory decisions and governing terms.

  • Agreed watchlist
  • Verified change notes
  • Position impact

Assessment method

Exposure, not prediction.

Extractive Insight does not forecast political events or grade governments. It assesses how exposed a named licence is if the framework around it moves.

01

Start with the licence

The unit of analysis is the mining licence, petroleum block, production sharing contract or concession on which the asset depends.

02

Separate licence risk

Country conditions set the field; the individual instrument determines how those conditions meet a holder, history and set of obligations.

03

Preserve provenance

Every material statement remains attached to a named source, a source class, an event date and a knowledge date.

04

Compare like with like

Comparison follows the instrument, framework, event, asset circumstances and treatment—not a superficial country match.