Past Projects
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Our Experience
Company / Division / Location / Role / Project / Undertaking
World Bank - Steel Authority of India Limited
Kinhill Engineers / BHP Engineering JV / Project Manager & lead author / Environmental Impact Studies for four Indian Steel Plants with a combined capacity of 14 Mt/a / Delegated authority of Environmental Monitoring Superintendent for the four plants during EIS preparation
Western Mining Corporation
Kinhill Stearns Roger JV / Lead Author / PFS & Environmental Impact Study (EIS) / Environmental assessment, overall process hydrometallurgy and tailings
BHP
Olympic Dam Expansion (Stage II) / Lead Author – Stage II Expansion / Environmental Impact Study (EIS) / Environmental assessment, overall process hydrometallurgy and tailings
Olympic Dam Expansion (ODX) / Lead engineer Hydromet & Tailings / PFS Mine Expansion /Feasibility, Engineering, Procurement & Construction
Olympic Dam Operations / Industry Director – Minerals & Process / $160M tails leach project / Oversee project team involved in design and construction
BHP Steel / Projects Manager / Port Kembla & Whyalla Steel works / Operations Productivity Enhancement
BHP/ Kinhill JV / Project Manager / Steel Authority of India / TATA Iron & Steel / Environment, Asset Management & Mining
BHP Indonesia Coal / Project Manager / Senakin Mine Expansion / Feasibility, Funding, Engineering, Procurement & Construction
Minera Escondida / Project Manager / Colosso Cathode Plant Moth Balling
One Steel /Aurium
Iron Duke Expansion / Project Manager / New crusher and rail loading facility, dust / Conceptual design, Prefeasibility stage / Project Magnet and Tailings reprocessing / Conceptual design
River Sands
Evaluation studies / Project Manager / Mary River, river sand evaluation for processing and sale / Conceptual design and PFS
Rare Earth Corporation (Kerry Packer)
PFS and EIS / Principal Author – Hydromet & tailings / Reprocessing of tailings at Rare Earth Corporation Port Pirie / Conceptual design and PFS and EIS
Western Plains Resources
Magnetite and hematite project / Process Engineer / Ore beneficiation studies to develop direct shipping ore (DSO) / Led to successful sale of company and resources to One Steel (later Aurium)
Rio Tinto
Queensland Alumina Limited / Water demand management / Reducing freshwater demand for red mud (tailings) and cooling circuits / EPCM design and commissioning which led to Comalco Refinery (CAR-II) being seawater cooled
Bougainville Copper / Capital Projects / Ball Mill Expansion / Crushing & Screening Expansion
Gladstone Area Water Board
Gladstone Economic Region / Strategic Planning Engineer / Seawater cooling project 2003-04 / Strategic Plan – 2005-2010 / Principal environmental engineer, principal author (1 of 2)
Centrex Metals
Magnetite project / Principal Process engineer / Pre-feasibility for magnetite processing adjacent One Steel Whyalla for a Chinese consortium / Meetings, conceptual design, negotiations with vendor/owner and owners engineer.
Global Geoscience Services
Business Vision 2010 / Geoscience Services / Director / Business development – liaison with Business Vision 2010 and Business SA / Key role in developing the geoscience services cluster in SA.
Environment Industry Cluster
Business Vision 2010 / Environmental Services / Chair and later CEO / Business development for Business Vision 2010. / Grew membership from 1 to 32 service provider organisations in two years before being absorbed by Business SA (SA Chamber of Commerce)
World Bank/ AusAID
Kinhill-PPK JV Shanghai Environmental Master Plan / Principal Environmental Engineer / Pre-treatment of industrial effluents discharged into HuangPu River and Chiang Jiang / Principal Author and management of 15 member counterpart team of Shanghai Research Institute for Environmental Protection (SRIEP)
World Bank / Unesco
Shanghai Environmental Master Plan / Principal Author / Pre-treatment Guidelines for industrial and process effluents for UNESCO / Principal researcher and author
Yara International ASA
New Mines / Technical Director / Tunisia Phosphate & Ethiopian Potash / Projects development through feasibility to construction
South Blackwater Coal
Kenmare Longwall Colliery / Change Management, Production & Maintenance Planning Manager / Productivity & Reliability Enhancement
Flour Daniel
Oil & Gas Operations / General Manager Victoria / Offshore platforms construction & Maintenance / Long Island Production / Altona Refinery / ESSO BHP Petroleum Operations
Clyde Caruthers
Pilbara W.A. / General Manager / Hamersely Iron Mine Operations / BHP Iron Port Operations / Rail & Fixed Plant Maintenance & Construction Operations
Aker Kvaerner/ Aker/ Jacobs (various name changes)
Philippines Mining / Projects Manager / BD Manager / Tampakan Copper Mine Feasibility Studies / Atlas Copper Restart
WorleyParsons Services
Chief Env Engineer, Minerals / Copper-uranium (BHP-ODX), rare earths (Lynas, Rare Earth Corp), LNG water treatment (Woodside, Shell-Arrow, Santos, BCG) and magnetite (Project Magnet) and Ore beneficiation (OBP-IronDuke) – One Steel/Aurium. Strategic planning, environmental impact, prefeasibility and bankable feasibility studies and front-end engineering design (FEED).
Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR)
Industry Director- Minerals & Process / Execution of BHP-ODX tails leach project, business development Santos Moomba, OneSteel Whyalla, Centrex Mining (magnetite), Western Plains Resources (hematite). Concept and design of crushing plant and expanded train loading facility, Iron Duke.