From first drill core to first shipment.
Central Ray East Africa Consulting is an independent advisory firm. We provide integrated business development, transaction advisory, and market-entry services to oil, gas, and mining clients operating in or entering Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan, and we stay with them across the full project life cycle.
Grounded strategy. Deliberate growth.
Like the bonsai in our mark, sound project development is shaped with patience and intention, not rushed to the next milestone.
Technical Insight
Commercial and project decisions grounded in metallurgy, process engineering, and hard data, not just a project schedule.
Full Life-Cycle Ownership
We stay on from the first feasibility number through to ongoing operations, not just the milestone that suits us.
Greenfield & Brownfield
Equally at home commissioning a new concentrator or extending the life of an existing operation.
Consulting that stays in it with you.
Central Ray East Africa Consulting was founded to close a gap seen across the natural resources sector: advisers who produce a polished study or close a transaction, then step away before implementation.
Central Ray stays close to execution, owning responsibilities across the full project life cycle rather than handing off at the milestone that suits the consultant. That approach shapes how we work with exploration and production companies, licence holders, contractors, traders, and investors across gold, base metals, battery minerals, potash, and oil and gas in East Africa.
Grown with intention
Every engagement runs through the same four principles.
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Patience over speed
Durable projects take deliberate shaping, not shortcuts. Getting the feasibility work right matters more than moving fast and rebuilding later.
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Balance over extremes
The right plan weighs ambition against what a site and a team can actually sustain.
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Resilience by design
We flag risk and opportunity early and communicate them plainly, rather than waiting for a status report to surface them, so plans hold up under commodity cycles, site conditions, and the unexpected.
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Clarity in every recommendation
No jargon, no vague roadmaps. Every recommendation comes with the reasoning behind it and a clear next step.
Led by a chemical engineer, not just a project manager.
Gurvir Singh Ghataurhae
Founder & Principal Consultant
A PMP-certified, EBK-registered Professional Engineer with an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering from Curtin University. His background spans mineral processing and brine operations in Australia with various industry-leading companies, alongside industrial research and performance experimentations in oil and gas equipment.
That technical grounding is the firm’s differentiator: project management delivered by someone who has run the plant, not just the schedule, across both greenfield builds and brownfield operations.
One firm, the whole project life cycle.
Most consultancies hand a project off at the milestone that suits them. We stay on, from market entry and the first transaction through to the metrics reported on ongoing operations.
- Market-entry strategy for companies establishing operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan
- Working with stakeholders to draw out the true problem or opportunity before scoping a solution
- Positioning a resource as a bankable proposition
- Technical and commercial due diligence on assets, licences, and offtake positions
- Investor-facing technical representation through acquisitions, farm-ins, and financing
- Feasibility studies, scope definition, and process flowsheet development
- Taking a project from concept to sanction-ready
- Execution schedules, budgets, and contractor mobilisation
- Change control and delivery discipline
- Owner’s-engineer oversight, HAZOP and commissioning support
- Performance management once the project is live
Project Controls
Cost, schedule, and reporting discipline that runs underneath every stage above, not a separate hand-off.
- Cost control, estimates, and bills of quantities
- Schedule development and tracking
- Power BI reporting and analytics dashboards
- Extension of Time (EOT) claims support
Technical depth behind every recommendation.
The metallurgical and commercial skill set we bring to engagements, from the first flowsheet to the offtake contract.
Process & Flowsheet Design
- End-to-end process flowsheet design, from scoping through feasibility
- Evaluating and recommending process equipment and process control systems based on operational requirements
- Building, leading, and mentoring internal mineral processing functions within client organisations
Geometallurgy & Data
- Geometallurgical statistical modelling integrated into resource block models
- Machine learning applied to metallurgical datasets
- Python and SQL data engineering for plant and testwork data
Commercial & Investor-Facing
- TC/RC structures, payable metal calculations, and concentrate penalty modelling
- Offtake strategy and direct negotiation with buyers
- Regulation-compliant technical report authorship across reporting standards
- Investor-facing technical representation
Based in Nairobi. Focused on East Africa.
We advise clients operating in, or entering, four East African markets.
Who we advise
Built on metallurgy, applied across the table.
Our project work is grounded in metallurgical training: knowledge that travels across commodities most consultancies treat as unrelated.
Equally at home commissioning a greenfield concentrator or extending the life of a brownfield operation. The metallurgy carries across both.
Let’s talk about the project.
Whether it’s market entry, a transaction, a scoping study, an owner’s-engineer mandate, or a full project buildout, get in touch.
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Phone+254 115 154 273
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OfficeFloor 1, Building 13658, Loresho Ridge, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya
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PostalP.O. Box 13658-00100, GPO Nairobi, Kenya