Energy

Our Focus

Prentice consulting’s energy practice is focused on business transformation and change management and is headed by Melissa Prentice. Melissa is a director of Prentice Consulting but is currently engaged in a permanent General Manager’s role at Uniting Care.

Our legal consulting business also has project experience in the energy sector including advising on the development of the Dalby Bio-Refinery, the Final Investment Decision on the Santos GLNG Project and supporting infrastructure and off take arrangements including water pipeline development and the desalination and use of salty brine associated with gas wells for agricultural purposes.

If you would like to find out more about our experience and availability in this sector, please contact us.

 

Notable clients and projects

 

Queensland Urban Utilities

  • Provided Queensland Urban Utilities with short-term support to the development of a transformation framework driven by the need to restructure to ensure a long term and sustainable business model.

 

Ergon Energy

  • Worked with the Energex and Ergon Energy Joint Workings Program supporting the Program and business subject matter experts as they deliver this significant change as well as six related projects.

  • Ran the initiation stage, gathering requirements, market scanning and vendor selection for Ergon Energy’s revamp of the process, people and systems relating to the trading and risk management activity.

  • Worked as the Project Manager with the Ergon Energy Team to successfully implement the solution upgrade in a hostile environment and scoped, gathered the business requirements and undertook the project initiation for the Critical Reporting Project as well as managing the quick wins of Phase 1 of the same project.

 

PanAust

  • Provided PanAust with change management support and advice for several initiatives: initial stages of the eDRMS rollout (SharePoint) and transition support for subsequent rollouts across Brisbane, Laos and Chile; outsourcing the Information Solutions Service support to Data3# (Brisbane and Chile); MOE (Managed Operations) Upgrade in Australia and Vientiane; operational efficiency initiative/production management solutions – minimising production downtime and operational reporting in the mines in Laos; development of a business transition framework, standard and toolkit for IS Implementations.

 

Deloitte

  • Provided subject matter expert advice to the risk services group within Deloitte to ensure that the mining environment of Freeports Indonesia had appropriate employee management and corresponding competency frameworks in place.

 

Other

  • Worked with an internal client project team to develop the business case for change, the HR strategic direction and service delivery model, processes and organisation structures for the Department of Environment, Food, Rural and Agriculture’s future HR delivery model.   This was a very detailed business case with an emphasis on extensive consultation (including unions).  All HR processes, organisation structures and customer interactions were restructured as a part of establishing the business case. This allowed a swift implementation once the business case was approved.