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At Projects RH, our core business is we connect projects & money. One of the ways we do that is by acting as an internal resource to process manage a major change in the business.  We understand the challenges of ..... Continue reading ....

Projects RH works with its clients [1] , and our strategic partners, to introduce potential investors or lenders to exciting projects and opportunities. Our work extends across national borders because we seek for our client’s investors who will assist with the business as well as invest. Our core business is we connect projects & money. Introductions are a key part of that. We work to ensure our clients receive strategic and warm introductions to potential investors and lenders [2] . We are firm believers in the view that you must put...... Continue reading....

Australia’s North West Shelf (NWS) gas and oil project is well over 30 years old, it has grown dramatically from the original vision, with low oil and gas prices it is not surprising that the big early investors are reviewing their strategies. The investors in Chevron, BP, Shell and BHP are not looking for passive utility like returns. When the NWS project was .... Continue reading....

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.............................. the strategy does not embrace renewable energy at this time. The return of AMPOL name will show to the market on a daily basis the company has embraced its Australianness.  Paul Raftery / www.paulraftery.com.au WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ MORE?

Unemployment associated with Covid 19 has given the anti-immigration lobby an opportunity to shout their disapproving message “migration steals jobs”. Australia needs be smart and create demand for locally made things like housing. In Australia we have business migration which creates new...... CONTINUE READING ....  

Most of us are working from home during Covid 19 and I guess many of us are working longer than harder than normal. Our clients’ concerns mean we need to spend more time with them but........ CONTINUE READING...

Sustainable renewable energy will be a clear pillar of the post Covid 19 world. Whilst the oil majors cut their dividends and reduce capital expenditure their investment in renewable energy has been ring fenced. This ongoing change within the oil majors demonstrates that they have both a pragmatic streak and continue to think long-term. Most were early investors in solar energy but its time was not ready. They next moved in and out of coal, pure retail and car maintenance. Today they are currently focused on gas but must be cutting their investment in new gas projects. At a time when they are focused on the image at both the community and shareholder levels their leadership in renewable energy should be welcomed. Their investment will drive technology resulting in many projects for others that do not meet their investment criteria which include size. 2020 to need to be a substantial year for solar and other renewable projects. The investment majors will continue to see the prices of so...

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Covid 19, as we call it now, emerged from the city of Wuhan in China. It emerged in December 2019 and came to prominence around the time of Chinese New Year. It has spread globally and impacted on all developed and developing economies. We need deal with it and its business impacts in a clinical manner and without entering the blame game. In this article we focus on how business can deal with the fallout of the disease. New reality, new perspective. Now. For the first time my life I am working from home and dealing with a new reality. I am working long hours but I am not sure about my efficiency. We need all focus on getting ready for the post Covid-19 world and pit time aside to do this now. The team at Projects RH works with a strong and enthusiastic group of ...... Tap this link if you want to Continue reading Paul Raftery

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Now is the time to reset what we want for our country. Every country should and must do the same. It is not a time to plan to return from hibernation. That world has gone for ever. We need transition and transformation to what we want our country to be. There should be no sacred cows. It is time for nation building and transitioning to a vision for 2100 and not 2021. Our forebears used times of adversity to change our country. In their time the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Snowy Mountains electric scheme were ridiculed, both changed Australia for the better. The need for information superhighway is no longer visionary it’s a necessity. We need to be looking for fulfilling jobs for a smart workforce many of which can substantially be done from home. Things once again will need to be done in Australia, and other countries, to maintain independence and hence sovereignty. Australia will need to refine oil, service aircraft, have a shipping industry, produce computers but to name a f...

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CLICK HERE AND LEARN MORE At the time of writing Australia is bunkering down to deal with the inevitable impact of Covid-19. Sunday it was announced that all people entering Australia from overseas would need to go into 14 days compulsory isolation. New Zealand had earlier announced, with the exception of some Pacific Islanders that anyone returning coming from overseas will need to go into 14 days mandatory isolation. South Korea, Italy, France and Spain are in self-isolation with the US blocking flights from the UK and the EU. Effectively each closing the country to the world. This has already occurred in parts of South America. Singapore and Hong Kong are braving the world but unfortunately is not business as usual. Each day we hear of more countries closing their borders to prevent the spread of the disease they feel they cannot control. In Latin America, In the case of El Salvador, this is because it could not afford an outbreak and many of the countries surrounding them...

Background The Liberal / National party coalition had been in power, in Australia, since 2013. Tony Abbott’s Views on energy policy cost him his job as Prime Minister in 2015 to Malcolm Turnbull and then caused Turnbull to lose the top job to Scott Morrison in August 2018. Abbott had a very clear vision of Australia remaining a low-cost energy country using the vast reserves of high-quality coal which the country has. Turnbull had almost the opposite view of the world wanting to transform Australia into a new low carbon high-tech economy. Scott Morrison emerged, almost like a character out of the BBC’s Yes Prime Minister, as the compromise candidate who sat in the middle and could heal a party after the philosophical wars between Abbott and Turnbull. The problem is, no decisions have been made since August 2018 despite Morrison receiving an unexpected healthy victory at a national election in May 2019. Yes, he and Minister Angus Taylor have held lots of consultations – but no...

This morning Richard Carter challenged the participants and his networking event with how would we manage our businesses if we were forced to work from home for two weeks because of the implications of Covid-19. The participants were drawn from small service-based businesses. Remarkably, the group seemed to have all considered this issue to some degree or another yes somehow contingency plans formally written and others had done felt with the issue in recent times having returned from China. It was clear that the majority of people would continue to run the business in much the same way as they do now. As with the Projects RH business today the vast majority of our communication with clients, and prospective clients, as well as strategic alliance partners and service providers is by telephone, email and videoconferencing. By and large only the venue would change. Both Projects RH and Tabatinga, based in Singapore, deal with clients whom we cannot see on a day-to-day basis. ...

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HOW MECHANICAL SHOULD YOUR CONSULTANT BE? Another Frequently Asked Question, by Paul Raftery At Projects RH we do pride ourselves on knowing that each client is special and known by the relevant team members. In dealing with clients with similar issues it would be remiss of us not to build checklists and to process map what needs to happen. A case in point is our part in the investment visas application process. I also guess that in having an engineer for a CEO requiring to find processes and monitoring performance against these almost goes without thinking. Our processes need to be well developed to show we can give the client the level of service they deserve.  Having defined processes and checklists enables us to readily respond to the queries of our clients but more importantly to monitor their progress before there is a query. This is especially important as Projects RH, via its strategic alliance partners, process manages much of the activities. Nevertheless, o...