Thiess Services transforms flood predictability

When major flooding struck northwest Victoria in 2010, flood plain inundation was monitored much the same as it had been for decades with manual markers and visual recording. It was a well tried flood management practice, but one fraught with inaccuracy from misinterpretation and with inherent safety risks.

For Thiess Services’ regional hydrographer Rohan Oliver, it was evident that existing technology could be packaged to provide a cost effective and easily deployable real-time data reporting system.

The technological solution was provided by fellow Thiess Services hydrographer Mike Wheaton who took up the research and innovation challenge with enthusiastic support and funding from Victoria’s Department of Sustainability and Environment.

The newly developed system was near completion when flooding returned to Victoria in 2012. The system was rushed into action and Thiess Services’ Portable Automated Logger System or PALS was born.

Thiess Indonesia awarded US$393 million mining contract

Thiess Indonesia has been awarded a US$393 million coal mining contract by PT Tamtama Perkasa, a member of the Barito Pacific Group.

Under the five year contract, Thiess Indonesia will provide mining services for the delivery of 7.5 million tonnes of coal at Muara Teweh in Central Kalimantan. Operations are expected to commence in late 2012.

Thiess supports BUSHkids

The Thiess QCLNG Upstream Works project team is proud to announce its support for the vital child health charity BUSHkids.

Thiess wins Wheatstone site clearing & preparation project

Thiess Pty Ltd has secured a contract with Bechtel to undertake site preparation works for the downstream portion of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and domestic gas project in Western Australia.

Biocell - environmental breakthrough in waste disposal

Energy from waste and reduced landfill - Thiess Services is proud to announce the unveiling of BIOCELL, a groundbreaking process for the treatment of municipal waste which minimises the release of greenhouse gases, maximises gas capture for electricity generation and reduces the amount of waste going to landfill.

Thiess JV wins Wheatstone LNG Tanks project

A joint venture between Thiess and EV LNG Australia (EVT) has won an approximately $500 million contract to build LNG storage and condensate tanks for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and domestic gas project in Western Australia.

Thiess’ multidisciplinary capabilities, paired with EV LNG Australia’s specialist design and construction expertise in LNG tanks, allows the joint venture to focus on providing storage facilities in this growing sector.

Thiess wins earthworks contract

Thiess has been awarded a $180 million contract with BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) for civil earthworks for the development of the Caval Ridge Mine Project in central Queensland.

BMA’s Caval Ridge open cut coal mine is expected to produce up to 5.5 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) and process an additional 2.5Mtpa from BMA’s adjacent Peak Downs mine.

Thiess wins $325 million QGC contract

Thiess has won a $325 million contract from coal seam gas explorer and producer QGC Pty Limited to construct gas processing facilities for one of Australia’s largest infrastructure projects.

The six field compression stations and one central processing plant, to be built about 30km north-west of Dalby in southern Queensland, represent some of the upstream facilities being developed by QGC for its Queensland Curtis LNG Project (QCLNG).

OZ Minerals awards Thiess $1 billion mining contract

Thiess Pty Ltd has been awarded a six-year mining contract to extend mining operations at OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill Copper and Gold Mine in South Australia.

With an expected cumulative value of $1 billion, the contract award ensures that Thiess will undertake the mining operations for OZ Minerals until 2018. Thiess is well underway in the planning, training and implementation of the ramp-up which requires a substantial expansion of Thiess’ existing operation, peaking at five fleets of large mining equipment.

Thiess JV wins Wheatstone Contract

A joint venture between Thiess and Belgian company BESIX SA (BEST JV) has won a $260 million contract to develop the breakwater and materials offloading facility (MOF) of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and domestic gas project in Western Australia.