Asset Support Mining & Metals Australia, Africa and Asia Company Overview
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Asset Support Mining & Metals Australia, Africa and Asia Company overview AMEC is a focused supplier of high value consultancy, AMEC provides a full range of services for mining and engineering, and project management services to the metals projects, from front end geology and environmental world’s mining, oil and gas, clean energy, environment consulting through to feasibility studies and detailed and infrastructure markets. AMEC designs, delivers design, project delivery, asset support and mine closure. and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers. A recent major development in the growth of AMEC was the acquisition of the respected Australian based AMEC has developed some of the most challenging organisation Minproc, incorporating its extensive mining projects in the world from concept to closure. experience and specialist skills in minerals resource AMEC’s success is based on a customer-focused projects. This has significantly increased AMEC’s footprint approach delivered by professionals from its centres of within Australia, Africa and South-East Asia. mining expertise in Australia, Canada, USA, Peru, Chile, Brazil, South Africa and the UK. AMEC’s major locations AMEC’s Mining & Metals locations 1 Asset Support Beyond Zero AMEC’s vision is to achieve sustainable, world class Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) performance excellence throughout our global operations. The AMEC Beyond Zero program creates an HSSE culture where strong leadership, personal responsibility and an unyielding commitment to excellence are cornerstones of how we conduct our business. We consistently take HSSE performance beyond the work place and out into the wider community. For many years, AMEC has had a goal of zero harm to people and the environment. Engagement at various levels within the organisation provides an opportunity to influence safety behaviour and create a culture of HSSE commitment greater than self-interest. AMEC has developed engagement tools to support this process, taking our HSSE performance ‘Beyond Zero’. We believe that nothing is so important that it cannot be done safely.’’ Samir Brikho, Chief Executive AMEC Asset Support 2 Asset Support overview AMEC’s Asset Support business delivers integrated A key attribute of the Asset Support team is the ability solutions to sustain and optimise operating production to seamlessly leverage off the wider AMEC group, with facilities. The services provided by Asset Support access to specialist commodity expertise and experience, compliment those offered by AMEC’s primary project as well as knowledge associated with particular facilities development business and in particular, extend the that have been designed and/or constructed by AMEC. company’s support to clients across the complete project life cycle. AMEC believes that delivery of the services to operating clients via a business unit dedicated to asset support is Our Asset Support services comprise: the most beneficial approach for operating clients and ■ Production improvement therefore the most successful strategy. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, this approach provides a focal ■ Sustaining capital delivery point within AMEC that maintains a long term interest in ■ Training and development services the development and continuity of the client relationship. ■ Asset management Secondly, it allows for a business structure that is organised around delivery control governance appropriate AMEC offers a core team of multi-disciplinary engineering to the range and size of the services. Finally, it assists with and project resources that allows integrated project recruitment and retention by providing for an environment delivery, from study phases through to execution, with differentiated by the nature of the work and associated continuity of personnel throughout. multi-level client relationships. Process solutions to Study, design and delivery improve production, of capital works to sustain margins and sustainability and prolong production Production Sustaining Improvement Capital Training & Asset Development Management Content and systems Systems to maximise to develop and retain availability and integrity of workforce competency operating facilities 3 Asset Support Production Improvement Sustaining Capital AMEC’s Asset Support team provides process solutions AMEC’s Asset Support team delivers sustaining capital to help customers improve production, increase margins works in brownfield environments from front end loading and maximise sustainability across a wide range of studies through to execution, commissioning and handover. commodities. Production Improvement services include: Sustaining Capital services include: ■ Flowsheet upgrades ■ Feasibility studies ■ Recovery improvement ■ Business cases ■ Debottlenecking ■ CAPEX and OPEX estimating ■ Process control optimisation ■ Capital submission documents ■ Legislative compliance ■ Detailed engineering ■ Energy efficiency/reduction ■ Program management ■ Commissioning services ■ Supply chain management ■ Ramp-up support ■ Project delivery (EP, EPC, EPCM) Training & Development Asset Management AMEC’s Asset Support team helps operating customers AMEC’s Asset Support offers a range of asset management develop and retain workforce competency by delivering services to assist clients with maximizing availability and technically robust yet engaging training systems. integrity of the operating facilities. Asset Management Training & Development services include: services include: ■ Training needs analysis ■ Equipment and system reliability ■ Training plans and programs ■ Plant availability improvement ■ Plant operating procedures ■ Asset integrity validation ■ E-learning training modules ■ Maintenance strategies ■ Intranet knowledge systems ■ Failure analysis ■ Competency based training solutions ■ Spares inventories ■ Training management systems ■ Operations readiness ■ Training standards mapping ■ Shutdown planning Asset Support 4 Industry experience AMEC is one of the few engineering companies that provides a comprehensive mineral resource development service from the resource definition stage through project implementation and on to asset support for the life of the facility.” 5 Asset Support Lihir Sustaining Capital Program Newcrest Mining Limited Newcrest Mining engaged AMEC Asset Support to deliver a program of sustaining capital works over a 3 year term at its Lihir Gold operations in Papua New Guinea. The program encompasses significant sustaining capital expenditure within a technically challenging operating environment. Working with Newcrest Mining, AMEC has established a collaborative framework to identify, define, prioritise and deliver project initiatives. The framework has integrated Newcrest Mining’s project management guidelines with AMEC’s Asset Support project delivery systems. The scope of works is diverse and includes process plant refurbishment, plant upgrades and development of additional ancillary infrastructure. Newman Beneficiation Plant Upgrade BHP Billiton Iron Ore BHP Billiton Iron Ore engaged AMEC Asset Support to carry out a Selection Study to evaluate options for sustaining beneficiation capability at its Mt Whaleback ore handling plant. The existing facility was installed in the 1970s and has suffered capacity constraints and increasing integrity issues. AMEC’s study scope included the development of a remediation programme to address safety, production and integrity risks in the short term and a detailed assessment of options for sustaining production in the long term. Substantial in-field investigations of the existing facility were necessary to define the as-built conditions and properly define the short and long term refurbishment requirements. AMEC undertook engineering development to a level sufficient to support +/-25% capital cost estimates for short term debottlenecking and long term refurbishment and new-build options. Asset Support 6 Mesa J Tailings Recovery Rio Tinto Iron Ore Rio Tinto Iron Ore engaged AMEC Asset Support to conduct a feasibility study and prepare a capital cost estimate for the Mesa J Further Processing Project, located in Pannawonica, Western Australia. This project explored options to modify the Mesa J Production Plants 1 & 2 (PP1 and PP2) to recover iron ore fines that were being lost to the tailings streams. AMEC investigated a number of initiatives including wet screens, stack sizers, hydro cyclones, and screw classifiers. This project exemplifies how innovative, smart technical solutions can generate added value from materials that are being otherwise rejected to tailings. In this case, the primary outcome was the ability to maintain target production at a reduced mining rate with a significant reduction in tailings storage requirements and costs. Macraes Gold Room Replacement OceanaGold Limited AMEC Asset Support collaborated with Oceana Gold Limited (OGL) to identify the best solution for mitigation of mercury accumulation in the gold room facility at OGL’s Macraes gold mine (NZ). AMEC’s services included field investigations, review of existing processes and procedures and the development of a conceptual design for a new gold room arrangement. OGL subsequently commissioned AMEC to prepare a Front End Engineering Design and Capital Cost estimate to support the fast track approval and delivery of the new gold room facility. The design was challenged by constraints associated with the brownfields context. The equipment selection, materials of construction, layout, ventilation and