Mining Energy Infrastructure Project development, delivery and governance services
Passionate about working with business owners and teams to achieve optimal and sustainable benefits from new developments and existing assets.
Services offered
Driven to create attractive business growth opportunities and optimising existing project portfolios and supporting merger, acquisition and divestment activities.
Bringing a balanced approach between ESG practices, technologies, future thinking and configurations to achieve improved confidence and sustainability in business outcomes.
Development strategy preparation
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Transition Vision to development objectives and requirements
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Facilitation of options framing and analysis
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Risk and opportunity identification. Stakeholder integration.
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Integration of development planning
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Study pathway and staged planning. Critical success factor plans.
Project Portfolio Management
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Portfolio structure delivery model assessment; PMO, HUB, Alliance, Panel, Integrated, Hybrid
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Life of asset capital planning support; sustaining, improvement, growth
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Project portfolio management methodology and processes establishment
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Portfolio integration with operating business systems
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Portfolio simplification and efficiency improvement services
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Performance improvement, fit for purpose and lean process reviews
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Project and portfolio KPI's, reporting and governance practices
Project Governance
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Independent peer reviews; studies and execution
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Health checks and inflight reviews
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Project lifecycle oversight services
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Post implementation reviews and lessons learnt processes.
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Projects advisory to executives and board
Projects capability development
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Project resources capability assessment
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Improvement planning to incorporate good practices
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Coaching of project teams
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Community of Practice (COP) structure for Management of Projects
Major Project Delivery
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Front end loading and project delivery readiness assessment
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Execution planning and optimising support
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Health, safety, environment, community integration in delivery plans
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Contracting and commercial options. Contractor assessments
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Management of service providers and contractors
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Delivery and benefits risk and opportunity reviews
Investment Advisory
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Investment due diligence; from early stage developments to existing assets with growth potential
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Business risk and opportunity identification. Quantification of risks/opportunities.
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Benchmarking and life of asset analysis.
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Identification of value improvement and growth opportunities
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Insights to potential future outcome scenarios.
Ellacon Consulting - Mario Car
Mario Car is Managing Consultant and Director of Ellacon Consulting.
Extensive experiences leading projects, in corporate and consulting roles, domestically and internationally with organisations such as MMG, BHP and Hatch.
Known for insights and as a practiced advisor and coach with senior business owners and project teams.
Considerable experience supporting organisations in developing, delivering and governing project portfolios and supporting merger, acquisition and divestment activities.
Diverse experience across the mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, energy and infrastructure sectors, working with teams in Australia, North America, Asia, South America and Africa.
Work has included projects;
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Copper; Las Bambas & El Galeno (Peru), Khoemacau (Botswana), Kinsevere (DRC), Sepon (Laos)
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Zinc; Izok development (Canada), Dugald River Project (Australia), Rosebery Mine (Australia),
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Nickel/Cobalt; Qld Nickel Refinery, Aluminium; Alcoa Smelters and Power Station (VIC), Manganese; EMD Battery Plant (Australia), BHP Potash (Canada), Steelmaking BHP (Australia)
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Natural Gas; Methanol Plant, Otway Gas Plant, ESSO Longford, ANFO plant, Ammonia/Urea, BHP Petroleum (Australia),
with a career-to-date total project value in excess of $US 8b.
Key achievements;
Turnaround of challenging and unfeasible projects.
Turned around a failing >$1B mining project in Australia. Significant reduction in establishment capital and increase in operating margins. Project delivered with further cost reduction in capital and considerably ahead of schedule with best in class production ramp up.
Capital portfolio structuring and management
Led the restructure and simplification of the capital portfolio approach and processes for the business. Lean approach adopted for corporate requirements and fit for purpose and scale approach adopted for each operating asset. Annual costs savings realised, progressive improvement of deliver schedules and particularly focused on progressing projects that optimise asset value.
New business projects pipeline development
Created a project development structure and process to progress new mining project developments (build approach) from initiation/acquisition through to operating assets. Strategic development pathways established and tracked for projects.
Major projects optimization and future thinking
Complex and challenging mineral development was resurrected. Assessed range of strategic options that addressed future thinking, technologies, and collaboration for development. Over time stakeholders turned around from opponents to advocates for mineral resource development in the region. Vision created of potential for multigenerational collaborative balance of mineral economic and wilderness activities in the region.
Recent work
