the public and private sectors delivering services including design, engineering, construction and maintenance of critical assets. In the oil and gas sector, Downer's capabilities cover the full range of services including maintenance, shutdown, turnaround and outage delivery, sustaining capital program delivery, project and commissioning services. Downer also has a Defence business which offers professional and managed services, asset sustainment and estate upkeep services to the Australian and New Zealand defence forces. Mining On 1 February 2021 Downer completed the sale of its Open Cut Mining West business to MACA Limited. https://www2.asx.com.au/markets/trade-our-cash-market/announcements.dow The remainder of the Downer Mining business was divested in December 2021 upon sale of its Open Cut Mining East division to Buma Australia Pty Ltd. Use of pseudoscience In 2019 Downer admitted to using dowsing, in an attempt to find water pipes while contracting to the Wellington City Council. Dowsing is considered a pseudoscience and there is no scientific evidence that it is any more effective than random chance. Downer told New Zealand Skeptic's chair Craig Shearer that Downer has no concern about the public perception that ratepayer money is being spent on a technique considered pseudoscience. Downer's general manager of business excellence and reputation Brooke Dahlberg said "the method is safe, and it has no plan to ban staff from using it – the choice to use it was up to individual employees." In December 2019, at the New Zealand Skeptics annual conference, the Downer Group was co-awarded the Bent Spoon by NZ Skeptics for "showing the most egregious gullibility in 2019" for the contractor's use of water divining to find underground pipes. Sponsorships Downer Group was the naming rights sponsor of the NRL Auckland Nines in 2016 and 2017. It also sponsored the 2016 Anzac Test at the Newcastle International Sports Centre and the 2018 World Club Challenge. Downer will be the major sponsor of the Rugby League World Cup 9s. In 2017, Downer signed on to be the major sponsor of the Sunshine Coast Lightning netball team. In 2021 Downer joined mental health organisation Beyond Blue as its Major Partner. References External links Company website Companies based in Sydney Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Engineering companies of Australia Mining engineering companies New Zealand companies established in 1933 Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1933 Mining services companies of Australia