Consultancy
Feasibility studies, sector analysis, policy advisory and project-development frameworks — ensuring projects are both viable and bankable.
Nigeria · West Africa · International
Local insight.
Global expertise.
A boutique advisory firm delivering transaction advisory, strategic insight and market-entry solutions — underpinned by deep local experience and a global network of specialists.
We partner with governments, investors and international institutions to structure and deliver high-impact projects across Nigeria and West Africa.
1967David Winn begins working in Nigeria
55+ yearsof Nigerian experience and relationships
NGTNCcustodian of Nigeria's gas network code
740 kmAKK gas corridor — technical advisory
Osprey
At the intersection of policy, capital and execution.
Osprey provides transaction advisory, strategic consulting and market-entry services across high-impact sectors — supporting projects from concept through to implementation.
Our role is to bring strategic clarity to complex opportunities, assemble the right expertise around each assignment, and create a practical route from idea to delivery.
- Delivering certainty
- Disciplined structuring and execution — on time and within budget, in complex operating environments.
- Trusted gateway
- The preferred route into Nigeria and West Africa for international investors and institutions.
- Global standards, local intelligence
- International best practice, applied with an unmatched understanding of Nigeria's regulatory, commercial and social landscape.
Primary focus
Gas markets, regulation and strategic infrastructure.
Nigeria is transitioning into a gas-driven economy, with significant investment flowing into domestic gas utilisation, infrastructure and export corridors.
Its success depends on policy, commercial rules, finance and infrastructure operating as one coherent system. Osprey works across all four.
Flagship expertise
The Nigerian Gas Transportation Network Code
The foundational framework governing open, transparent and efficient access to Nigeria's gas transportation network — conceptualised under the leadership of Dr David Winn, who foresaw Nigeria's transition to a gas-powered economy as early as 2010.
Osprey led the development, training and implementation framework for the Code, and remains its custodian. The work brought together market architecture, regulation, commercial structure and practical adoption by institutions and market participants.
Policy & market architecture
Defining the market model, its objectives and institutional responsibilities.
Network code development
Drafting robust, bankable, internationally benchmarked rules.
Tariff & economic modelling
Transparent methodologies balancing investment and affordability.
Implementation & training
Preparing regulators, shippers and operators to put the framework into practice.
Energy infrastructure
From feasibility to financing and execution.
Nigeria's infrastructure gap is a multi-billion-dollar opportunity across pipelines, power systems and industrial assets. Osprey supports the full lifecycle — coordinating the technical, commercial and institutional requirements of large-scale projects.
- Concept development and feasibility
- Transaction and commercial structuring
- PPP and funding strategy
- Technical review and implementation support
Services
International standards, built for real operating conditions.
Osprey's strength lies in mobilising a global network of specialists and institutions to deliver results in complex environments.
Transaction & strategic advisory
Project financing and fund mobilisation, public-private partnerships, commercial structuring and negotiation, and regulatory and policy alignment.
Strategic market entry
A structured pathway into Nigeria and West Africa: market intelligence and entry strategy, regulatory navigation, partner identification and stakeholder engagement.
Capacity building
Training, institutional strengthening and knowledge transfer with a long-standing track record of sustainable impact.
Private capital advisory
Discreet, institutional-grade advisory for families and long-term holders of capital — preserving, growing and strategically deploying wealth across domestic and international opportunities.
Global network advantage
Specialist expertise, assembled around the assignment.
Osprey mobilises a worldwide network of senior specialists — gas-market architects and regulatory experts, infrastructure-finance and PPP specialists, transmission, LNG and energy-systems engineers, and policy and institutional-reform advisers.
- Gas markets & regulation
- Infrastructure finance & PPPs
- Transmission, LNG & energy systems
- Policy & institutional reform
Selected track record
Experience with scale, complexity and national importance.
Osprey has been at the centre of some of Nigeria's most strategically significant projects. In each case below, Osprey's exact role is stated alongside the scale of the project.
NGTNCNational gas-market framework
Nigerian Gas Transportation Network Code
The rules governing open and competitive access to Nigeria's gas transportation network — the foundation of a transparent and efficient gas market.
Osprey's roleLed development, training and the implementation framework; custodian of the Code.
740 kmFlagship gas pipeline
Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline
One of Nigeria's most critical gas corridors, connecting supply in the south to demand centres in the north.
Osprey's roleKey advisory role supporting engineering design and technical review.
$250MSovereign-level financing
Federal Government Strategic Financing (2016)
A financing framework with a global energy trading group in support of priority national infrastructure and social projects.
Osprey's roleFacilitated the transaction and financing framework.
Obajana Cement Project ~$1B project
One of Africa's largest cement plants. Role: development guidance from resource identification through execution and financing structuring, including sovereign guarantee arrangements.
Nigeria–Morocco Gas Pipeline 4,950 km · ~$10–15B
A pipeline positioning West Africa as a major gas supplier to Europe. Role: early-stage development support and bilateral cooperation.
Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline 2,000 km, multi-country
A complex regional initiative. Role: selected as Transaction Advisor and Project Manager.
Modular Refinery Development 50,000 BPD · $250M
Role: advised on development, coordinating international financing and technical partners.
KRPC Environmental Remediation
Role: delivered an innovative stabilisation solution transforming hazardous waste into safe, usable material.
Ethanol Plant Feasibility Studies $90M–$350M
Role: conducted multi-state feasibility studies aligned with Nigeria's renewable-energy policy.
Agriculture & Industrial Master Plans
Role: developed large-scale strategic frameworks across agriculture, coal and textiles, unlocking investment pipelines.
ECOWAS Highway Programme $2.5B programme
A major West African transport corridor linking multiple economies. Role: appointed Transaction Advisor and Fund Mobiliser.
Institutional engagement
Local relationships. International reach.
Osprey's role is often to align government priorities, specialist expertise and international capital around a deliverable route forward.
Legacy
Nearly six decades of Nigerian experience.
Osprey Investments Group is a boutique, indigenous advisory firm with a legacy spanning more than 55 years in Nigeria — a reputation built on strategic, high-impact projects across the country's most critical sectors.
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1967
Arrival in Nigeria
David Winn arrives as a young engineer — the start of a lifelong commitment to the country's development.
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1970s–2000s
From engineer to strategist
His work develops across agriculture, industry, infrastructure and energy — combining deep local engagement, rigorous project structuring and long-term participation through equity and execution.
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2010
The gas conviction
An early conviction that Nigeria's future lies in gas leads to the conceptualisation of the Gas Transportation Network Code — a vision now materialising at scale.
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Today
Specialist gas identity
Osprey's specialist gas and energy practice, developed under his leadership, sits at the centre of the firm — supported by a world-class international advisory network.
Long-term perspective
Real assets. Patient participation.
Osprey's history includes long-term ownership and stewardship of real assets alongside its advisory work. WraysburyHall — owned by Osprey Investments in Guernsey — forms part of David Winn's wider investment story: evidence of continuity and a perspective that extends well beyond a single assignment.
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