Our Firm

We define where the Earth sets the ceiling on returns — before capital is committed.


Who We Are

Enclime is an independent subsurface intelligence firm helping investors, operators, and advisors make better upstream oil and gas decisions.

 

We were founded on a simple belief: that the sedimentary basin is the foundation of every upstream opportunity. Reservoir performance, reserve growth, development success, and investment returns are all shaped by geological processes that began millions of years before a well was drilled or capital was committed.

 

Our role is to help clients understand those processes and the assumptions that emerge from them.

 

Drawing on nearly three decades of international experience across Africa, Southern Europe, and Latin America, we provide independent, decision-focused intelligence that bridges the gap between geology and capital allocation. We combine basin-scale thinking, petroleum systems analysis, and commercial awareness to help clients identify risks, challenge assumptions, and better understand the subsurface factors that drive outcomes.

 

We work with capital providers, operators, and advisors involved in exploration, development, acquisitions, financing, and portfolio management. Our focus is not on generating more data, but on extracting insight from existing information and highlighting the geological factors most likely to influence success or failure.

 

At Enclime, we believe that better geological understanding leads to better decisions. Because if you don't understand the sedimentary basin, you don't understand the deal.

Capital Providers

Energy Operators

Advisors & Intermediaries

Our

Mission

Our mission is to make geological risk explicit and manageable, ensuring that subsurface reality is a pillar of every capital decision. We provide independent basin intelligence, technical challenge, and strategic insight to support better investment, development, and financing outcomes.

Why 

Enclime 

The sedimentary basin is the foundation of every upstream opportunity. Enclime offers a rare combination of geological expertise and investment perspective. By connecting basin evolution, reservoir behaviour, and capital allocation, we help clients see beyond the data and focus on the assumptions that matter most.


Dr Roland Barbullushi, Founder

Enclime was founded by Roland Barbullushi, a geologist with nearly three decades of experience evaluating petroleum systems, sedimentary basins, and upstream opportunities across Africa, Southern Europe, and Latin America.

 

Throughout his career, Roland has worked at the intersection of geology, investment, and strategy, developing a deep appreciation for the role that the subsurface plays in shaping commercial outcomes. His work has spanned exploration, field development, technical evaluation, and strategic advisory assignments across some of the world's most complex and dynamic hydrocarbon provinces.

 

Roland holds a PhD in Earth Science and Engineering from Imperial College London and has built his career around a simple observation: many investment successes and failures can ultimately be traced back to geological assumptions that were either understood—or overlooked.

 

This insight became the foundation of Enclime.

 

Today, Roland combines technical expertise with commercial thinking to help investors, operators, and advisors better understand the geological drivers of risk, value, and performance. His approach is rooted in independent thinking, basin-scale perspective, and a belief that better geological understanding leads to better decisions.