As one of the largest essential infrastructure service providers in Australia and New Zealand, Ventia is uniquely positioned to work with companies across a broad range of industry segments to help tackle complex energy transition challenges.
With a combined workforce of over 35,000 people, across more than 400 sites, Ventia operates across a broad range of industries, including resources, defence, social infrastructure, water, electricity and gas, environmental services, telecommunications, and transport.
For more than 60 years, Ventia has been a trusted partner to some of Australia and New Zealand’s largest energy providers and users. Offering a wide range of services, the company partners with utility owners to drive operating efficiencies, safety, and reliability, as well as assuring the ongoing value of energy assets.
End to end solutions
Ventia’s focus today is on providing end-to-end solutions to a changing energy industry landscape, through innovation and leadership in energy stability and security, renewable energy, behind the meter solutions and virtual power plants.
“We deliver complex energy projects, asset management solutions and provide technical and engineering services to power stations, substations and transmission lines as well as clients across different industries,” says Ventia Group Executive – Infrastructure Services, Tim Harwood.
“Each day we partner with our customers, who consume 15 per cent of Australia’s electricity, across high-voltage energy networks, transmission substations, industrial facilities, natural gas developments, carbon capture use and storage, mine site closures and remediation and environmental rehabilitation projects.”
Maintaining energy assets is crucial to the reliable generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity to communities. Ventia is helping to build a strong energy future by applying its knowledge, technical capability, and smart asset management methodologies to support reliable and predictable generation, transmission, and distribution networks to support communities.
“We understand the critical importance of generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure and our work is focused on minimising downtime and optimising operational efficiencies for our clients and their customers.”
Operating across Australia and New Zealand
In New Zealand, Ventia has been supporting the national electricity grid for over 25 years, and in Australia, it has worked to deliver over $250 million of electricity and gas transmission and distribution (T&D) projects in the past decade.
As a key service provider to Transpower, New Zealand’s high voltage transmission network owner and operator, the Ventia team has been providing maintenance and project services across the breadth of New Zealand’s electricity network for more than 25 years.
In Australia Ventia supports major electricity and gas clients across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. This includes maintenance across overhead and underground distribution lines, gas main replacement services as well as well as a range of network projects.
Oil and gas expertise
Known for end-to-end service solutions that support clients’ businesses in the downstream, midstream and upstream industries, Ventia has been a trusted partner to the oil and gas sector for over 60 years.
Ventia designs innovative service models to deliver well servicing, maintenance, shutdowns, facilities management, accommodation and brownfield project services to support the front-end design, engineering, commissioning, operations and maintenance phases of upstream (on and offshore), midstream and downstream facilities.
“Our entrepreneurial systems and processes are proven in designing, building, owning and operating rigs to deliver world-first cost and time savings. And our Engineering Services team has extensive experience in brownfield projects, sustaining capital delivery, asset performance engineering and advanced R&D, enabling consistent value and results for our clients through technical maintenance strategies that achieve optimisation, integrity, compliance, and reliability,” Harwood says.
As part of Ventia’s rig and well services, it provides the following:
• Resource drilling (of all kinds) and downhole intervention.
• Minerals exploration and resource definition.
• Well servicing, completion, maintenance, and abandonment.
• Mine dewatering.
• Equipment manufacturing, repair, and maintenance.
In exploration, development, and production operation Ventia, together with its experienced operators and engineers can provide solutions for:
• Large diameter de-watering solutions and utilising dual rotary rigs to drill through unstable formations.
• Tight gas, deep exploration, and production drilling for natural gas and carbon capture and storage projects.
• Heavy workovers and completions, hole deepening and cavitation works, well clean-outs, pump replacements, rod servicing, rapid flushby operations and snubbing.
Sustainability at the forefront
Alongside the company’s dedication to servicing the industry, it also has a big focus on sustainability and supporting the energy transition.
Ventia’s Sustainability Strategy is to create a healthier planet, be people and community focused, and be ethical and accountable in everything it does.
Ventia’s Sustainability Manager, Alexandra Monson says the company is setting science-based emissions targets and is committed to creating a positive legacy for people and planet.
Ventia’s sustainability targets align to recognised industry frameworks to ensure we deliver best practice outcomes and meet the expectations of our people, our clients, our investors and our communities,” Monson says.
“As we continued to embed our sustainability approach throughout 2022, we also developed our understanding of our current performance across all target areas and set benchmarks to report against. This will help us demonstrate our progress against our targets and set a sound basis for comparison into the future through our transparent reporting.”
For more information visit Ventia or call us on 1300 VENTIA (836 842).
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