With current work on hand of $2.2 billion generated largely from their core businesses, HWE Mining, HWE Civil, LSM Projects and Simon Engineering, spread across more than 50 sites, employing approximately 3000 people.

In 2003 HWE Civil entered the oil and gas transmission and water transmission pipeline construction sectors as part of the company’s expansion strategy for its civil operations.

Pipeline Experience

Henry Walker Eltin’s proven capabilities in civil engineering, combined with its access to experienced pipeline construction expertise, offer the oil and gas and water transmission sectors a new alternative in the marketplace. Their team of pipeline personnel possess more than 100 years experience in Australian and overseas pipeline construction. Members of their team have held key roles in many of Australia’s signature transmission pipelines over the last twenty years.

Pipeline Construction Capabilities

The wide range of civil design and construction capabilities presented across the Henry Walker Group through its various businesses combine to offer a ‘whole of asset life’ service to clients. Some of the specific pipeline capabilities include remote area operation, management of a moving production environment and the evolution of specialist technologies in the area of pipeline construction such as trenching coating and welding activities.

Specific pipeline products and services available through HWE Civil range from solving intricate pipeline problems; difficult terrain scenarios including flood plains, river crossings, swampy, rocky and mountainous terrain; design, survey and right of way, procurement to rehabilitation, commissioning, HDD, operational services and cultural heritage management.

Specialist and General Pipeline Plant and Equipment

Henry Walker Eltin operates one of Australia’s most extensive earthmoving plant fleets, allowing protected access to earthmoving and construction equipment for all civil operations, including pipeline construction. In addition, they have established strategic partnerships with specialist pipeline equipment suppliers ensuring availability of specialist pipeline plant for all operations. They offer access to a wide range of specialist pipeline equipment.

HWE Civil provides a wealth of experience and expertise in pipeline transmission construction, management and operational and maintenance services. They also provide services covering an extensive range of civil disciplines, while actively supporting the group’s other capabilities offered through LSM Projects, HWE Mining and Simon Engineering.

Simon Engineering

Simon Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of Henry Walker Eltin, offers total engineering services from detailed design and feasibility through to construction, operation, maintenance and de-commissioning. Its core capabilities are spread across the mining, heavy industry and infrastructure sectors and include project management and process engineering, as well as electrical and mechanical engineering as applied to a range of technologies, including acid plants and minerals processing and water treatment. The business’s capabilities have enabled Henry Walker Eltin to offer complete engineering services, from detailed design and feasibility through to construction, operation, maintenance, de-commissioning and rehabilitation.

HWE Civil

HWE Civil designs, constructs, and project manages major infrastructure projects in Australia and overseas for most industry sectors. Applications other than pipelines regularly range from concrete and steel structures, road works, airport construction, earthworks, rail and marine to underground tunnelling.

LSM Projects

LSM Projects has proven capabilities in project management and execution. The company’s capabilities extend beyond the technical aspects of project management to strategic, commercial, contractual and other management expertise required to deliver a profitable outcome. The key to the company’s success has been a culture focused on the satisfaction of client objectives. Working with a client, the team identifies the vital outcomes of a project and develops a management approach that will realise these strategic goals.

HWE Mining

HWE Mining moves more than 410 million tones of product per annum, covering 27 major mining projects. Their experience includes mining in extreme and demanding environments from the arid deserts of central and northern Australia, to the snow-driven high altitude locations in the South American Andes and the rugged tropical terrain of Africa, Indonesia and Jamaica. Their extensive profile of underground and surface operations means that they have a broad exposure to new ideas, advances and technologies, which they acquire, improve and apply across their clients’ operations.