ACIL Allen Consulting (ACIL Allen) is the largest Australian-owned independent economic consulting firm in Australia.
ACIL Allen advises companies, institutions and governments on economics, policy and corporate strategy. The company provides senior advisory services that bring unparalleled strategic thinking and real-world experience to bear on problem-solving and strategy formulation.
ACIL Allen's energy capability covers electricity, natural gas and CSG, coal and renewable energy.
The company's areas of energy expertise include:
- policy review and analysis
- institutional, regulatory and governance arrangements
- market modelling and scenario development
- wholesale and retail pricing
- market risk and transactional due diligence
- cost-benefit and issues analysis.
AFS Projects provides engineering, construction and technical services to the oil and gas pipeline industry. It partners with pipeline companies when specialist engineering knowledge, extra resources or project delivery systems are required. The company has a background in delivering projects from complex relocations to pipeline recoating.
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is responsible for operating Australia’s largest gas markets and the Victorian gas transmission system, and power markets and systems. As Australia’s independent energy markets and systems operator, AEMO provides critical planning, forecasting and energy systems information, security advice and services to its stakeholders.
AEMO operates these gas markets:
- Victorian Declared Wholesale Gas Market (DWGM) and the Victorian gas transmission system
- Wholesale gas Short Term Trading Market (STTM) hubs in Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane
- Retail gas markets in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales and the Australia Capital Territory
- Wallumbilla and Moomba Gas Supply Hub in Queensland and South Australia, along with Pipeline Capacity Trading and Day Ahead Auctions of pipeline capacity
- Natural Gas Services Bulletin Board
- Western Australia Gas Bulletin Board.
AEMO operates these power systems and markets:
- National Electricity Market (NEM), the interconnected power system in Australia’s eastern and southeastern seaboard
- Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) and the power system in Western Australia.
AEMO develops the following major reports:
- Gas Statement of Opportunities and the Victorian Gas Planning Report
- Electricity Statement of Opportunities and the Victorian Annual Planning Report
- Integrated System Plan
CNC Project Management (CNC) has a long-established history in Australia’s pipeline industry, working on some of Australia’s largest oil, gas and water pipelines.
CNC offers a unique range of consultancy services under the one roof, working across all stages of the project lifecycle – from project inception and planning, through approvals, design and construction, to commissioning, operations and decommissioning.
CNC’s experienced team provides expert advice to progress its clients' projects. CNC sees the big picture for its clients' projects while taking care of the essential detail.
CNC delivers solutions in:
- Project planning and management.
- Alignment selection.
- Landholder access and land acquisition.
- Stakeholder and community engagement.
- Communications planning and management.
- Media and government relations.
- Permitting and approvals, including secondary approvals.
- Environmental management and compliance.
- Field environmental services during construction.
- Native title and cultural heritage management.
- Spatial and data services, including geographic information systems (GIS).
- Agreement management and payment services.
- Pipeline engineering, including SMS studies and facilitation.
At Downer, customers are at the heart of everything the company does. Its purpose is to create and sustain the modern environment by building trusted relationships with its customers and Downer promises to work closely with customers to help them succeed, using world leading insights and solutions.
Downer designs, builds and sustains assets, infrastructure and facilities and is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. With a history dating back over 150 years, Downer is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and New Zealand Stock Exchange as Downer EDI Limited (DOW). Downer is an ASX 100 company that also owns 88 per cent of Spotless Group Holdings Limited (SPO).
Expertise
Downer supports its customers through the full life of their assets - from initial feasibility and design through to production and operations and eventual decommissioning. It builds strong relationships of trust with customers, truly understanding and predicting their needs and bringing them world leading insights and solutions. Downer aims to employ the best people and bring thought leadership to each stage of the asset lifecycle as it supports customers to plan, create and sustain.
Asset Services
Downer is a leading provider of asset maintenance and specialist services to the oil and gas, power generation and industrial sectors in Australia. It supports customers with long-term, relationship-based contracts where the company seeks to optimise the reliability, efficiency and whole-of-life costs of their assets. Downer's key capabilities cover the full range of services including maintenance, shutdown, turnaround and outage delivery, sustaining capital program delivery, project and commissioning services.
The company partners with customers to deliver success, driving continuous improvement through collaboration and innovation. Downer brings together a depth of technical expertise, industry partnerships and lean processes to maximise value for its customers and their businesses.
Energy Safe Victoria (ESV) regulates the Victorian energy industry and is responsible and accountable for all gas, pipeline and electricity safety functions in Victoria.
It sets, administers and regulates gas safety standards, investigates events with implications for gas safety, and prosecutes breaches of the Gas Safety Act and regulations.
Under the Pipelines Act, ESV is also responsible for safety management plans for pipeline construction and operation, and environment management plans for pipeline operation.
ERIAS specialises in environmental and social impact assessment and management, delivering permitting and life-of-project environmental and social management services to pipeline, petroleum and energy projects.
Its career experience includes assignments in more than 40 countries, bringing global industry experience to its projects, whether it be for owners/operators, lenders, constructors or regulators.
ERIAS also specialises in construction environmental and social management services, including the provision of onsite planning, advisory, auditing and monitoring personnel embedded into owner and constructor teams.
ERIAS undertakes assignments across Australia and throughout Asia and Papua New Guinea. Its clients include APA, Beach Energy, ExxonMobil, GB Energy, Oil Search, Santos, Shell and TOTAL.
ERIAS service lines include: permitting and approvals, environmental and social impact assessment, stakeholder engagement and social performance management, environmental management and monitoring, marine and freshwater studies, construction environmental and social management and auditing.
ERIAS has offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Port Moresby.
Since the mid-90s, Fyfe has been closely associated through various services with the expansion of the oil and gas sector in the major basins of Australia.
Fyfe is passionately Australian. It is absolutely committed to employing the best people to deliver high-value Australian projects that build Australian prosperity.
Our 350+ staff are based in 15 offices across major capital cities and regional centres, where we provide employment opportunities, encourage a diverse workforce and supports community initiatives. The company's success has come about due to an unswerving commitment to delivering value through integration. As it approaches its fifth decade, Fyfe acknowledges the vital importance of the lasting partnerships it has developed with its clients. It is these powerful personal and professional relationships, built on a foundation of trust, that assures its sustainability and contributes to its clients' success.
Fyfe knows trust is earned, not given. It never takes that for granted.
GHD's oil and gas and future fuels group has provided multidisciplinary, high value dedicated services to the pipeline industry for more than 25 years. These services include regulatory approvals, environmental and stakeholder services, engineering and advisory services.
Services include: brownfield/greenfield facilities engineering; project feasibility studies and concept development; onshore pipeline engineering; risk and safety; hazardous area management; functional safety; EPCM services; materials technology; operational support; asset management; and approvals.
In addition, GHD has more than 10,000 personnel ready to provide engineering, environmental, planning, project management and architecture services for infrastructure associated with developing and operating oil and gas assets.
GPA Engineering (GPA) is a highly experienced engineering consultancy providing EPCM services to Australia’s oil and gas industry since 1987, with offices in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and Melbourne. GPA thrives in solving complex engineering problems and providing value to its clients within process, mechanical, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation, SCADA, controls and risk engineering fields.
The company delivers single disciplinary projects through to large multidisciplinary developments for greenfields or brownfield operations, from conceptual/feasibility stages through to detailed design, construction, commissioning and operations support.
GPA provides services across the full range of oil and gas projects, from wellhead through gathering, processing, reciprocating and turbine compressor stations, AS 2885 transmission pipelines in steel and spoolable composite, gas and fuel storage projects, AS 4645 distribution pipelines and stations, and facilities supplying power stations and industrial plants. The company also provides independent third party design/MDR validation services.
GPA proudly supports the industry and refine its knowledge, through active participation on ME 38, AS 2885 subcommittees, YPF and EPCRC/FFCRC research projects.
JLL Infrastructure Advisory (JLL) is a specialist land access, land management and valuation company with particular expertise in the acquisition of land and easements for major linear infrastructure projects including water, gas and slurry pipelines.
With more than 48 years' experience across Australia working in this specialist field, JLL remains the first choice for infrastructure developers where the timely delivery of projects in a cost-effective manner is paramount.
JLL delivers its core services on a national scale with offices throughout Australia specialising in land access negotiations, landholder, stakeholder and community engagement, land and easement acquisition, route and site selection, preparation of statutory documentation and agreements, para-legal advice and assessments of compensation/valuations.
The Land Access & Management Team (LAMS) team brings long-term and wide-ranging experience to a broad range of projects throughout Australia.
The company team has been personally selected to undertake complete land project management from concept to completion. LAMS services and areas of expertise include route/site selection, title information, easement negotiation and acquisition, survey, database establishment and management, environmental and CH studies, community consultation, valuation, landowner negotiation, all related documentation and dispute resolution.
The LAMS ‘hands-on’ management structure ensures a significant cost benefit to all project proponents who then benefit from an assured best outcome for all projects.
LandPartners is an integrated consultancy, offering surveying, mapping, land management, planning, approvals, underground services locating and GIS solutions for pipelines and major infrastructure projects. LandPartners has more than 37 years' experience in the pipeline industry and has been a Corporate Member of APGA since 1999.
LandPartners’ comprehensive services include:
- desktop investigations – route selection, constraints mapping, land searches and management
- project GIS and web portals for pipeline and land databases
- landowner, government authorities and utility negotiations
- route field selection, engineering and FEED surveys, alignment sheets and alignment design
- pipeline construction surveys, as-built surveys and as-built - GIS
- licensed cadastral and ROW easement surveys
- terrestrial laser scanning and Drone (UAV) services and mapping
- underground services location and 3d Modelling to AS 5488.1:2019 standards
- facility and civil surveys, machine guidance modelling
- planning applications, licencing and approvals.
LandPartners is QA certified – ISO 9001:2015, OH&S certified – BS OHSAS 18001:2007 and AS/NZS4801:2001, and Certified Location Organisation (CLO) with DBYD, Telstra and Optus Accreditation. LandPartners holds a CASA Remote Operators Certificate for Multirotor Drones (UAV).
Lochard Energy is an Australian midstream energy infrastructure business owned and backed by institutional infrastructure investors. The company was formed in 2015 and operates the largest independent gas storage facility in Australia, providing processing, storage and energy security services to the major commercial operators within the domestic energy market.
Its energy storage facility has been in operation since 1999, holding a strategic position in the Australian gas market, and as a company it specialises in building, operating and maintaining major hazard facilities with consistent profitability and excellent health, safety and environmental records.
Committed to operational excellence, customer-focused outcomes and strong safety culture, Lochard Energy is a solid business partner and dependable member of the community.
Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) is the Queensland technical and safety regulator for the petroleum and gas industry.
Sustech Engineering is a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy (ISO 9001:2015 certified) providing engineering and project management services since 2013 to WA’s key oil and gas, hydrogen, chemical, fertiliser, ammonia, pipelines, water, CCS, mining-mineral processing and port with an emphasis on safety and sustainability.
The company partners at any stage of small to medium greenfield, brownfield and shutdown engineering projects and take up roles of owner’s/lender’s engineer or feasibility concept-FEED-detail design engineer. We do regulatory compliance, readiness for operation, operation-maintenance, asset integrity and troubleshooting, technical due-diligence, 3rd party design & MDR review-validation as well as litigation support and pilot plants.
We also provide niche services like pipe stress analysis, pipelines, vessel, tank, FEA, FRP-piping, inspection, various studies and FFS, structural analysis, process safety, electrical system analysis. We think out of the box and provide cutting-edge solutions and in-depth analytics to process and projects.
Driven by a passion for forensic engineering, the company creates long-lasting value through experienced professional service and efficient risk management. Our ethos is what sets it apart and keeps it ahead of the competition: We put our clients first.
Verbrec is a leading engineering, asset management, infrastructure and training services provider operating across the entire asset lifecycle.
With capabilities that range from concept design to end-of-life management, Verbrec is uniquely positioned to support and understand their client’s priorities in their energy transition goals.
Verbrec's experienced team operates across multiple regions, including Australia, New Zealand, PNG, and the Pacific Islands, executing projects for organisations of all sizes.
At the heart of the business lies an endless drive to offer clients a better way of working. Founded on a culture of high performance and safety, Verbrec continues to foster effective partnerships and alliances through a deep respect for its people.
The company brings together more than three decades of experience in engineering and operational services to the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors.
Verbrec represents the industry's evolution and continued growth by leveraging emerging technologies for a more sustainable future.
Verbrec's core services
Verbrec Engineering services
Innovative engineering, and project delivery solutions. Through our technical specialities, including automation and control, power, process plant, and pipelines.
Verbrec Asset Management
Asset management solutions that increase efficiencies, reduce cost and improve productivity, unlocking higher value from client’s assets.
Verbrec Infrastructure services
Full lifecycle services for project delivery from inception through procurement and/or construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance.
Industry Training
Australia’s leading provider of training delivery and competency assurance solutions for the industry. Through the trade names, Competency Training and Site Skills Training deliver a range of hazardous areas, high voltage and high-risk training courses, and qualifications to help clients and their employees advance in the mining, resources, oil, gas, construction and engineering industries.
Veris is a market-leading national surveying, digital and spatial and planning business with a track record of providing services to the pipeline, oil and gas industries.
The company is an expert in all stages of development from concept, pre-feasibility, feasibility, front-end engineering design and construction, through to operations and maintenance.
Services include risk management (AS 2885), route selection and ground truthing, data sourcing and collation (heritage, environmental and land services), GIS/Web solutions, topography route and feature surveys, alignment sheets, cadastral surveys, easement creation, ROW/pipeline licensing, construction/facility surveys, as-built surveys, bending, stringing, special crossings and horizontal directional drilling design, 3D laser scanning, sub-surface service location, machine guidance, project CMS and data management.
With a proven track record in both the private and public sector, Veris combines national strength with local knowledge and expertise to ensure the best outcomes for all projects, regardless of size or geographical location.
Worley has delivered many of Australia’s pipelines, gathering systems and facilities over the last 40 years with a reputation of delivering quality projects on time and on budget.
As one of the world's largest engineering and project delivery providers and the only one with a dedicated pipeline capability, Worley focuses on developing and maintaining skilled people and efficient digital delivery processes to ensure consistent quality on every project.
It has specialists in all aspects of pipeline and pipeline facilities design, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance, integrity management, cathodic protection and decommissioning including capability in environment, regulatory approvals, geotechnical and community relations.
Worley is at the forefront of the digital revolution offering full automation of pipeline and gathering design, construction management and integrity management using the GIS-based OmniSight™ platform reducing cost and schedule. Further customer savings are achieved through extensive use of our Global Integrated Delivery centre in India.
Worley has operations and maintenance responsibilities on two major pipelines in Australia and multiple power assets. Worley works with OneBridge to use machine learning to reduce the cost of dig-ups.