Alliance Partners

ETS Founder

Highly accomplished energy sector professional with senior production and maintenance manager level experience within upstream conventional, CSG, refining operations and maintenance environments. Over 25 years of successfully leading and developing technical teams with diverse and complex businesses plans to achieve high performance.

He's worked internationally including - Australia, New Zealand, UK and partners in India.

He has specialist skills working with maintenance management systems (CMMS), defect elimination processes, rotating equipment fleets for power, compression and hydraulic drive units.

He is a graduate of BG Group UK Operations manager academy for OIM’s and has a maintenance engineering technical background and has been an appointed site safety manager for operating fields in Queensland Aust. 

Mechanical Engineer

James is an experienced Energy Professional and Peak APM Founder who is known for a combination of focused analytical skills, leadership capabilities, and interpersonal strengths. 

He brings highly developed technical competencies in mechanical and project engineering, which complement demonstrated proficiency in asset and maintenance management. He has proven capability to quickly build trust and credibility whilst managing positive working relationships in new environments. ​

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He has extensive experience with development, construction, start-up, commissioning and operational experience covering 15years in energy and manufacturing industry settings across Australia and New Zealand. 

 Data-driven decision making: Peak APM specialises in leveraging data from various sources, such as technicians, operators, maintenance records (CMMS), and operational data, to gain insights into the health and performance of assets. A company’s metrics (KPI’s) may cover some of these already. This data is then analysed to identify improvements and used make changes either strategically or tactically to generate more desired outcomes. Technology can help us gather and analyse the data, but it’s not necessary to get started to sustain peak performance. 

Senior Data Analytics Engineer 

Development services specializing in Data Analytics, Systems Integration, and Digital Solutions for the industry delivering big picture thinking with the technical capability to execute. Duncan brings a multidisciplinary mindset and adaptable approach that helps organisations enhance operational efficiency and reliability through forward-thinking, data-driven strategies.

Duncan has over 12 years of diverse experience across multiple technical roles within the Oil & Gas sector, notably at Shell/QGC. His expertise spans Production Engineering, Process Analytics, and Digital Transformation with a proven track record of deploying data solutions that deliver high impact results.

One of Duncan’s standout contributions was the development of a Well Event Log a platform that consolidated and contextualized data from multiple systems to provide a unified timeline of operational events across ~3000 wells. This solution directly enabled improved operational oversight and contributed to an estimated $100M/year reduction in production deferment.

In another leading project, Duncan tackled recurring downtime challenges with Hydraulic Power Units (HPUs). By combining real-time data analysis with engineering fundamentals, he created a predictive model that identified end-of-life risk in critical rotating equipment. The result: average site downtime was slashed from 65 days to under 10 days, delivering a ~28PJ reduction in deferment over two years.

These projects showcase Duncan’s ability to merge big picture systems thinking with advanced analytics and hands-on engineering to unlock sustained business value.

Duncan has joined Energy Technical Services and is currently leading projects that propel clients forward through data-driven maintenance optimization, leveraging advanced algorithms to achieve significant operational improvements and efficiencies.

Asset Planning & Scheduling SME

After spending 21 years in the Instrumentation field, Dave diversified into the Planning & Scheduling area where he has honed skill becoming an SME in the field.

Dave's skill set and experience spans across 30 years of working in complex Petrochemical Plants - Upstream Oil & Gas Plants - Midstream Refining - Fuel Terminals 

He's worked internationally including UK - New Zealand & Australia

and has worked with a number of leading CMMS systems including Maximo & MEX and scheduling software packages Microsoft Project, Primavera 

He’s a specialist with Master Data, Preventative Maintenance, Job Plan development, Training and Mentoring new planners and schedulers.

Experience counts at ETS and Dave has plenty to offer our clients with his thirst to training and mentoring new planners and schedulers.

Digital Strategy & Change Implementation 

Ian has a wealth of organisational improvement experience gained from implementing successful change programmes on an international stage over a career spanning more than 30 years. Passionate about gathering insights and influencing the real things that make a difference, he has operated and improved businesses across four continents, all the way from the UK to the far side of Australia.  

“When you stand at the front line of a successful business you are surrounded by people willing to help and you can hear the energy of that culture all around you.  

I have stood at the front line in too many businesses where all I hear is silence… through the work we do, we help businesses re-discover that voice and create a culture of delivery and support.”

 Senior Training Advisor   

Having worked in the gas industry for 30 plus years, with strong drilling and completions, commissioning, operations, industrial relations, training, and team development experience, Rob is recognised as the “go to” person to develop and present training and assessments for those who commission and operate conventional and unconventional gas, oil, hydrogen, and ammonia plants, including major hazard facilities.

Rob also audits the effectiveness of safety systems such as permit to work, lock on, lock off, gas detection and high-risk work such as hot flame work in classified hazardous areas, confined space entry and working at heights.

Analytical, results driven, he also conducts training needs analyses and implements comprehensive learning solutions that comply with legislative and organisational regulations and standards.

Rob is skilled at bringing simplicity and order to training and delivers programs that reduce cost without compromising safety.

Rob holds training, assessing, and auditing qualifications and is a member of the Gas Supply Industry Skills Technical Advisory Committee, Ammonia Skills Working Group, Queensland Hydrogen and South Australian Training, Education and Skills Working Groups