About Us

Jacobs Consultancy, founded in 1957 as The Pace Consultants, has over 50 years of experience in providing consulting and services to the international energy industry.

Our primary consulting offices are located in Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; London, England; Leiden, the Netherlands; and Manama, Bahrain.   We have a professional staff of over 150 across these six offices, and our consultants typically have advanced engineering and/or financial/business backgrounds, real world industry experience, world-class expertise in multiple disciplines and more than 25 years of professional experience.

We have conducted numerous confidential single-client assignments, involving feasibility of petcoke fueled power & gasification, market studies and price forecasts, and project finance support as independent technical or market consultant for various petcoke sourced projects.   Individual companies, the financial community, and government agencies seek our expertise and industry knowledge.

Established in 1983, our flagship subscription publication, the Pace Petroleum Coke Quarterly© (PCQ), is recognized as the authoritative source of objective analyses for the petroleum coke industry. The continuing service is widely used to support marketing, purchasing, and strategic decisions by producers, marketers, traders, and end users of both green and calcined petcoke. Clients of the service control 75% of world calcining capacity, 65% of world refinery coking capacity, and 70% of the world's aluminum capacity.

Jacobs Consultancy also maintains regular dialogues with refiners, calciners, and consumers of petroleum coke around the world. These ongoing discussions give us unique insights into the marketplace for green and calcined petroleum coke. We possess in-depth experience and significant expertise in calcined petroleum coke and coal tar pitch, as shown in our highly respected subscription studies, the Calcined Petroleum Coke Report and the Coal Tar Pitch Report.