Leadership

David Ure is the founder and Director of Practical Risk Management Pty Ltd (and its predecessor: Ure Risk Engineering Pty Ltd). With an initial 25 years practical experience employed in the oil / gas industry, internationally and nationally, David established a foundation upon which to build consulting services. His company reputation is recognized internationally and services are results driven as shown in the 18 years of successful consulting services since.
In addition to his demonstrated ability to apply engineering solutions, David has also demonstrated creative thinking and solution identification for complex problem solving. He has the ability to guide multi-disciplinary groups through a process to obtain outcomes that meet objectives.

The range of types of work completed (link to the “what we have done” space) speaks for itself. Key to much of the work was taking organisations successfully through change. Sound engineering Project Management and technical skills are always applied to services.

David Ure’s career began as a graduate of chemical engineering in 1977 with Hamersley Iron in Western Australia. He spent some ten years with Shell International Maatschappij, completing assignments in The Netherlands, Malaysia and Oman. Experience included Petroleum/Drilling Engineering (offshore and onshore, wellsite operations, budgeting and cost control [20 land-rig operation, USD 1 billion budget in 1998], emergency response and production technology). Returning to Australia, David worked for almost ten years in Esso Australia as senior drilling engineer also as an acknowledged practitioner of Risk Management and Management Systems application prior to starting out in consultancy business. He was also involved in specialized technology and engineering solution applications, and co-authored a successful US patent application related to Well Collision Avoidance.

David is internationally recognized for his abilities as facilitator and trainer. His abilities to facilitate in workshop environments have been honed in more than 60 workshops, most of which were risk assessments and the balance were more general “complex problem solving” or project scoping workshops. Workshop groups were multi-disciplinary, multi-supplier and involved international personnel. PRM ensures an effective end-to-end process from workshop charter development, through workshop preparation to the actual workshop and resultant deliverables. The extensive background of David and the PRM team ensures facilitation from a knowledgeable base which contributes to (and tests for validity) the discussion content.

Many of the deliverables have required training and communications as part of the scope of work. David and the PRM Team have provided training across many subjects, including extensive training related to Emergency Response Plan roll-out addressing personnel from senior company Management to operations personnel, drillers and many others.
David holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) degree and completed Shell in-house Petroleum Engineering Courses (I & II). He is also a member of The Institution of Chemical Engineers.