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WorleyParsons Limited
Company typePublic
ASX: WOR
IndustryEngineering and Project Delivery
Founded1971 as Wholohan Grill and Partners[1]
HeadquartersNorth Sydney, NSW,  Australia
Key people
John Grill (Founder, CEO)[1]
ProductsServices
RevenueDecrease A$4,967.1 million (Aug 2010)[2]
Decrease A$291.1 million (Aug 2010)[2]
Number of employees
30,000+ (Aug 2010)[2]
Websitewww.worleyparsons.com

WorleyParsons Limited is a large provider of professional services to the resources & energy sectors and complex process industries. Their services cover the full asset spectrum both in size and lifecycle – from the creation of new assets to services that sustain and enhance operating assets. Across a comprehensive global network, the four customer sector groups deliver small studies through to mega-projects.[3]

Customer Sector Groups (CSGs)

Hydrocarbons: Full-scope global project delivery in deepwater, floating, subsea & conventional structures, topsides, onshore oil & gas, pipelines, LNG, and refining & petrochemicals.

Power: Renewable energy, clean coal, nuclear and natural gas generation, transmission networks and retrofit project solutions from pre-feasibility to asset operation and maintenance

Infrastructure & Environment: Complete solutions for the transportation, coastal & marine, water & wastewater, resources & energy, municipal and urban infrastructure sectors

Minerals & Metals: Delivering comprehensive “pit to port” projects and solutions in base metals, alumina, aluminium, coal, iron ore, steel and chemicals across the world.[4]

Services

WorleyParsons’ experience covers all phases of the asset lifecycle. Services include, but are not limited to:[5]

  • Concept selection
  • Business model development
  • Feasibility studies
  • Cost estimating
  • Contract planning
  • Conceptual design
  • Front end engineering design (FEED)
  • Cost estimating
  • Execution planning
  • Detailed engineering
  • EPCM
  • PMC
  • Portfolio delivery
  • Asset management
  • Brownfield projects
  • Operations and maintenance support

WorleyParsons evaluates the critical issues in each phase and tailors services so that customers can select and deliver their projects and improve their assets for optimal long term performance.

Global Presence

WorleyParsons utilizes over 30,000 personnel across over 40 countries[6] to provide customers with a combination of extensive global resources, world-recognized technical expertise and deep local knowledge. Common tools and systems across the organization, as well as emphasis on a strong Workshare model, are used for delivery of a project through multiple offices.

Workshare alleviates pressure on resources in market “hot spots” and provides access to qualified, experienced resources from the lower cost-base locations. This assists customers to meet project budgets and schedules, plus highly specialist capabilities that exist throughout the organization can be made readily available.

EcoNomics™

EcoNomics™ is the range of services and technologies that profitably embed environmental, social and financial sustainability into project delivery, across the asset lifecycle. It is a seamless extension of established project delivery capability in the key areas of Assessment, Efficiency and Treatment & Mitigation. WorleyParsons works with customers to turn their sustainability objectives into good business practice.[7]

OneWay™

OneWay™ is WorleyParsons’ enterprise-wide integrity management framework that establishes corporate expectations for progressing towards their vision of zero harm to people, to assets, and zero environmental incidents. In addition to a conventional health, safety and environment (HSE) program, OneWay™ addresses aspects such as risk management, safety in design, technical integrity, competency, management of change and emergency response across all sectors of the business.[8]

WorleyParsons Group

  • Evans & Peck - International infrastructure-based advisory company that has supported governments and private organisations in the conception, development and delivery of major projects and programs.
  • INTECSEA - A global company within The WorleyParsons Group offering capabilities for floating systems, offshore pipelines and subsea production systems.
  • CNEC WorleyParsons - CNEC WorleyParsons Engineering SA accumulated extensive experience in providing consulting services in project management and complete engineering solutions, ranging from feasibility studies to the early operation of the enterprise.
  • WorleyParsons Polestar - WorleyParsons’ capability in the nuclear consulting and analysis segment of the international nuclear industry was complemented with the acquisition of Polestar Applied Technology with the aim to expand the power business in the USA.
  • WorleyParsons UniField - WorleyParsons (heritage UniField Engineering) provides multi-discipline engineering and design, project management, project controls, procurement and construction management with a focus on asset services to the semiconductor materials, hydrocarbons, power and mining industries.
  • Nana WorleyParsons - NANA WorleyParsons provides multi-discipline engineering and design, project management, project controls, procurement and construction management to the hydrocarbons, power and mining industries.
  • MaisonWorleyParsons - The largest international engineering, procurement, and construction management contracting organization in China.
  • CadSkills - Since 1996, CadSkills has been an established company in Singapore that specializes in the provision of CAD and technical resource solutions across all disciplines of the infrastructure, hydrocarbons and power industries.

DryFining

In 2010, WorleyParsons was part of a team to be awarded with Power Engineering magazine’s 2010 Coal-Fired Project of the Year. The project, “DryFining,” created a new technology for coal-firing power plants that improves fuel quality, decreases volatile gas emissions, and reduces a plant’s operating expenses and maintenance costs. The team was led by electric service provider Great River Energy of Maple Grove, Minnesota, and also included fluid bed dryer engineer Heyl & Patterson Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, Lehigh University’s Energy Research Center and the Electric Power Research Institute.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b WorleyParsons - Our History Retrieved 27 August 2010
  2. ^ a b c WorleyParsons Annual Report 2010 Retrieved 16 September 2010
  3. ^ WorleyParsons - About Us Retrieved 20 April 2011
  4. ^ WorleyParsons - Customer Sectors Retrieved 20 April 2011
  5. ^ WorleyParsons - Phases Retrieved 20 April 2011
  6. ^ WorleyParsons - Global Presence Retrieved 20 April 2011
  7. ^ WorleyParsons - EcoNomics™ Retrieved 20 April 2011
  8. ^ WorleyParsons - OneWay™ Retrieved 20 April 2011
  9. ^ "Power Engineering Names Projects of the Year". Power-Gen Worldwide. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
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