Total Profit Management

Owner-side assurance for high-stakes capital decisions

Total Profit Management (TPM) gives you the clarity and confidence to make better capital decisions, improve delivery certainty, and identify risks before they become costly surprises. Our Opportunity Readiness Assessment (ORA) shows what is ready, what is exposed, and what needs action before you commit more capital.

What this is, how we apply it, why it pays back, and when to start.
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Funding confidenceGate readinessDelivery riskCost and schedule certaintyTurnover risk

The truth gap

Dashboards can show activity while the real delivery risk stays buried. ORA tests the evidence behind your next gate, funding release, mobilization, or recovery decision so you know what is ready, what is exposed, and what needs action.

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Illustrative pattern from readiness reviews: reported progress and evidence-tested readiness are rarely the same number.

The cost of getting readiness wrong

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of oil & gas capital projects experience cost overruns

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average overrun on upstream and midstream projects

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lost production per day of turnaround delay

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average loss per refinery from unplanned downtime

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of companies experienced unscheduled downtime in the last 3 years

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years from discovery to production on major developments

Industry figures compiled by the Total Profit Management team. ORA is designed to find these risks before they become overruns, downtime, rework, or missed commitments.

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Years of collective megaproject delivery experience across the team

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Years developing the method, with field trials on live capital programs

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Readiness gates tested from business case through closeout

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Readiness dimensions connecting field reality to capital decisions

When to start

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Before the gate

You are approaching a final investment decision, funding release, or stage gate and need to know whether the decision package can survive scrutiny.

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Before mobilization

You are about to mobilize construction or commissioning and need confidence that engineering, procurement, work packages, and the schedule are actually aligned.

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When dashboards show activity, not evidence

Your project-management reporting looks healthy, but leadership needs to know whether the underlying evidence is reliable.

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During recovery

A re-baseline, change-order escalation, or schedule slip has eroded executive confidence and the next decision needs solid ground.

Services

Opportunity Readiness Assessment (ORA) starts with your immediate decision: fund, proceed, mobilize, recover, or hold. We match the review to the risk exposure and give you a clear view of what is ready, what is missing, and what to do next.

01Opportunity Readiness AssessmentYour first readiness check before capital exposure grows. ORA shows whether the opportunity is ready to fund, proceed, mobilize, or escalate.Surveying the ground
02Gate Readiness ReviewKnow whether to proceed, proceed with conditions, hold, or rework before the gate decision locks in cost and schedule exposure.Structures rising
03Owner Oversight AssuranceA clearer owner-side view of contractor, vendor, interface, change, and work-package risk before it becomes a leadership surprise.Lifting into place
04Project Framework AssuranceA review of the project delivery framework itself: lifecycle model, stage gates, registers, decision rights, and data flows.Energizing the grid

Method

ORA turns scattered project evidence into a practical decision view: what supports the next move, what is missing, where risk is owned, and what must change before you commit more capital.

Front-end definitionFront-end engineeringDetailed engineeringConstruction work packagesInstallation work packagesSystem work packagesTurnover to operations

Seven readiness gates, from front-end definition through turnover. Construction work-package readiness — where engineering, procurement, and the construction schedule must align — is where most projects quietly lose the path.

ProceedProceed with conditionsHold pending evidenceRework decision package
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Where we work

  • Energy and oil & gas

    Upstream, midstream, and downstream capital programs, from front-end definition to startup.

  • Power, utilities, and grid

    Generation, transmission, and grid programs with outage-window and regulatory exposure.

  • Industrial and infrastructure

    Multi-party capital programs where decision rights and schedule credibility decide outcomes.

  • Data centers and high-tech

    Speed-to-energization programs where the power path and commissioning sequence carry the risk.

The firm

Total Profit Management is a bench of global subject-matter experts in capital-project delivery, built around senior judgment and owner-side capital discipline. The team has delivered megaprojects from the owner's side at supermajor energy operators, utilities, and industrial programs — over 200 collective years across the full project vertical, from business case to turnover.

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    Built from practitioner experience across energy, utilities, capital projects, commissioning, project controls, and readiness assurance.

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    Six-plus years developing the readiness method, including field trials on live capital programs.

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    Artificial intelligence-enabled intake and synthesis, with judgment that stays with senior subject-matter experts.

Share the gate, funding moment, mobilization, recovery issue, or owner concern. We will help you decide whether ORA is the right first step and what evidence matters now.

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