Mark Cronshaw

Dr. Mark Cronshaw is the Chief Economist at Gustavson Associates.  He has over twenty five years of experience in oil & gas, telecommunications, and academics.  His economic and engineering analyses include valuation of international and domestic oil & gas properties and facilities including gas-to-liquids, valuation and due diligence for sand and gravel operations, valuation of gold and bauxite mines, energy alternatives for Cook Inlet, development of the natural gas sector in Afghanistan, determination of the economic rate of return for pipeline rehabilitation in the Republic of Georgia, tariff and cost studies for the Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation System, and enhanced oil recovery at Prudhoe Bay.  He has been an expert witness concerning cost contingency.  He has built economic models of production sharing contracts (PSCs) in Kurdistan, Egypt, and Albania.  He was part of a team that prepared a development plan for the first underground natural gas storage in the Republic of Georgia, which led to the award of a preliminary engineering study.  His capacity-building experience includes work on the monitoring and supervision of PSCs and future energy scenarios on behalf of the Hydrocarbon Unit in Bangladesh.