Rebalancing priorities – a framework for maximising value from existing assets
The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of a sustaining capital framework that successfully manages the four key operating priorities for asset-intensive businesses.
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With large, geographically dispersed gas wells that are connected to compression facilities and water treatment plants, natural gas producers are increasingly looking for long-term partners to help deliver strategic projects and sustaining capital to ensure natural gas is reliably supplied to their customers.
Bringing the right people together, in a collaborative way, to own and execute the right outcomes requires:
A partner with accountability for delivery as part of an integrated client team with an ecosystem of carefully selected providers
Flexible resourcing to tap into a wide range of skills and local resources co-located with the client, ensuring they’ll be there to deliver
Creating an environment that fosters knowledge sharing and upskilling, based on a deep understanding of the assets
Working with client data to enable value-based decisions
People that combine capital investment and asset performance skills to deliver business strategy and outcomes
This is a transition away from traditional engineering contracts on a per-project basis, to a more collaborative form of delivery, ensuring continuity of people and processes.
Hear from Aurecon’s technical leaders as we dive deeper into how thinking differently about design, engineering and project delivery can help asset intensive natural gas operations optimise and realise value from their projects and programmes of work.
We asked some of our technical leaders how thinking differently can help asset intensive natural gas operations optimise and realise value from their projects and programmes of work.
Aurecon’s Ken Holwell, Major Projects Director, discusses the importance of partnering with clients and suppliers to build an ecosystem that drives the right outcomes for organisations.
Aurecon’s Mike Sudmalis, Global Capability Leader – Process Industries, shares lessons learned from developing a system where subsurface and surface teams work together to increase value, streamlining assurance and delivering environmental and social outcomes.
Aurecon’s Mahsa Goharfar, Technical Director – Process Systems, shares the importance of connecting subsurface, engineering and planning to create value.
Aurecon’s Prashant Parulekar, Technical Director – Rotating Machines, explains different ways to improve asset performance and innovative strategies for operational efficiency and optimising rotating machines to improve throughput.
Aurecon’s Ryan Turner, Power Transmission & Distribution Practice Leader – QLD, shares learnings to optimise design and maintenance of large HV networks from working with Queensland’s Transmission Network Service Provider and other large generation and transmission networks.
Value drivers are unique to each organisation and defining value is often the first step. Once value is understood, Aurecon’s sustaining capital framework helps guide investment in existing asset portfolios to remain competitive and productive – identifying, prioritising and implementing the right projects and programmes of work.
Ensuring that every project and operation is aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives. This means prioritising only the work that truly adds value, avoiding wasted capital on unnecessary activities.
Delivering projects with a clear understanding of business outcomes, supported by robust scope definition and options analysis. This ensures fit-for-purpose, cost-effective solutions that create value, reduce risk and improve delivery efficiency.
Business decisions enabled by an ecosystem that considers what value means to the organisation and a holistic approach to value that includes economic, licence to operate, organisational transformation, operational and safety considerations.

Major Projects Director

Design Director – APAC

Principal, Sustaining Capital – APAC

Process Systems Practice Leaders, QLD – Australia

Design Director – QLD, Australia