Firm strives to optimise project delivery in Africa
Advisian, the independent advisory and consulting arm of WorleyParsons, is leading the way in optimising project delivery across Africa, according to Adam Boughton, sectors director for the Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.
He says Advisian unites traditional management and strategic advisory services with deep domain engineering expertise to produce innovative, practical, results-driven technoeconomic modelling analysis.
He explains that this is a solution capable of building a comprehensively sound, optimised business case based on real engineering and technological capabilities, acquired through the organisation’s extensive 130year project delivery history in the hydrocarbons, power, infrastructure, minerals and metals, and chemical industries.
“Advisian’s extensive engineering history has played a fundamental role in much of the organisation’s success, allowing us to develop and plan projects in an efficient, optimal and practical way, resulting in significant customer savings from the outset,” says Boughton.
While historical experience provides a solid base, Advisian also draws on other unique tools that further assist in mitigating risk and identify opportunities across their customers’ entire end-to-end business value chain.
StepWise, a fully integrated financial and technical process model that requires minimal financial commitment, takes a low-risk approach to providing the best possible technical alternatives in a quick and costeffective way. The model assists in providing strategic decisions on potential investments, with a focus on maximising returns while minimising and managing exposure to risk. Risks and opportunities are identified early on in the process, thereby offering real value choices quickly and at a low cost.
“Through StepWise, Advisian can also create a digital model of any potential project and can technically simulate its operation. This gives a visual representation of the final development and can significantly reduce the cost of pre-feasibility studies or lead a project immediately to feasibility stage,” says Boughton.
In addition, access to WorleyParsons’ extensive real world database on project delivery and engineering knowledge assists in the early identification of options, thereby reducing opex/capex time.
Further aiding the complex process of bringing projects to the market in the most sustainable, optimised way is Advisian’s environmental management, social performance and stakeholder management capabilities. From changing local, national and international legislation, to increasing stakeholder and community expectations, Advisian helps customers understand and manage their interfaces with the natural, physical, social, regulatory and built environments — no matter where in the world they are.
He says the organisation’s strong engineering and consultancy capabilities in SA have played an integral role in acquiring projects throughout the EMEA region.