Campbell Dynamics provides innovative and specialist services in critical areas of project development. The company acts as a full owner's team or supplements existing project and business teams, applying due diligence and constructive challenge at every tollgate on the path to Financial Close and beyond.
A business case must do more than reach Final Investment Decision. It must give the Execution Team the best possible chance of realising the outcomes the decision was based upon. Campbell Dynamics understands the checks and tollgates that allow projects to proceed through the development path.
Complete project management of Concept, PFS and DFS delivery: scoping, world-class technical resources, Monte Carlo risk analysis of estimate and schedule, transparent financial modelling, and presentation to financiers, boards and JV partners. Estimates follow AACE class discipline throughout.
Multi-disciplinary project management with works delivered beyond $300M, from initial bid documents to handover to Operations. Contract and execution strategy across D&C, EPC, EPCM and Alliancing, with risk allocated to the party best placed to manage it.
From pre-feasibility to final commissioning of sulphur-burning and metallurgical acid plants, including unbiased assessment of all major technology vendors and licensors. The capability is grounded in delivery of the world's largest metallurgical sulphuric acid plant at Mt Isa.
| Period | Client | Role | Key contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 – present | Iluka Resources | Project mentoring; stand-in Project Manager | Carried the $500M Balranald underground mineral sands project to FID (Feb 2023). Independent Project Review of the $800M Wimmera rare earths PFS. Continuing mentoring of the Iluka Projects function and Executive. |
| 2022 | Gladstone Green Hydrogen | Mentor to the Project Director | $5B green hydrogen consortium (Stanwell with Iwatani, APA, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Marubeni, Kansai Electric Power). Oversaw the FEED plan. |
| 2019 – 2022 | Iluka Resources | Project Director and PFS lead | PFS for US$300M Sierra Leone mineral sands project; PM for $50M Balranald underground trial; Project Director for $800M Wimmera rare earths PFS; independent reviews across eight projects. |
| 2017 – 2018 | Infigen Energy | Wind farm FID and operator transition | Drove the 60MW Cherry Tree wind farm to FID; resolved a fatal-flaw counterparty risk before commitment; led the five-month Suzlon-to-Vestas operator transition at Lake George. |
| 2011 – 2013 | Yancoal Australia | DFS delivery and portfolio strategy | Moolarben Open Cut 4 DFS ($720M) and Underground No. 1 DFS ($700M), both on time and on budget. Five-year blueprint to double ROM production across five mines. |
| 2003 – 2006 | Asia Pacific Potash Corporation | Somboon (Udon Thani) Potash, US$1B+ | PFS covering mine, surface plant, 700km logistics chain, port and licensing. Cash flow model withstood BHP Billiton due diligence in 2005. |
| 1996 – 2003 | Western Mining Corporation | Qld Fertilizer Project $1B; Manager Mt Isa | Produced the 1996 DFS underpinning WMC board approval. Personally responsible for $200M+ of Mt Isa site works, including the world's largest metallurgical sulphuric acid plant (>1Mtpa) integrated with the MIM copper smelter. |
The full engagement history appears on the Project Management and Contract & Execution Strategy pages.
Campbell Dynamics' principal delivered the world's largest metallurgical sulphuric acid plant: more than one million tonnes a year, built within 180 metres of the Mt Isa community. The technology pages set out how the plant works, section by section, and what that experience offers a new acid plant project.
Chemical engineer and company director, with four decades in heavy industry across Orica, WMC Fertilizers and two decades of Campbell Dynamics engagements. Board roles at Stanwell Corporation and Gladstone Ports Corporation give him both governance experience and hands-on technical command of project delivery.
"In terms of having both board-level governance & strategy skills and real life technical expertise in project financial & operational management, he remains the most valuable Board director I know."
"Steven has a rare talent for strategic and methodical unravelling of complex issues… He has proved able to find specialist problem-solving personnel at very short notice and also to be able to ferret out vital third-party data in complicated areas."
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Trust takes a substantial time to create and only takes a misinformed comment to destroy. Campbell Dynamics builds effective communication with key stakeholders from the earliest phase of every project.
