Scottish engineering company Wood Group Kenny and Perth firms Fastwave Communications, Matrix Composites & Engineering and Atteris were winners in the inaugural Subsea Energy Australia awards.
The company of the year award went to Wood Group Kenny, whose Perth office has grown to have more than 375 staff, making it the single largest office in the group's global operations.
Since being established in Perth in 1985, the group has worked on many of the large gas projects off the north-west coast.
Its recent wins include subsea and pipeline studies for Woodside's Browse project, and a front-end engineering and design study for Apache Energy's Julimar gas field development.
Fastwave Communications won both the innovation & technology award and the standard of excellence award, for its Ocean Star marine environmental monitoring system.
The Ocean Star product has been purchased by Woodside and Chevron and is being marketed globally.
The winner of the emerging talent award was Jay Ryan from Perth-based Atteris, a specialist design engineering company in the fields of subsea pipeline systems, horizontal directional drilling, and tunneling.
Matrix Composites & Engineering was the winner in the exports category, for its subsea buoyancy product.
Matrix listed on the ASX in November 2009, and has proved to be an outstanding success for investors, with its shares rising from an issue price of $1.00 to $8.15 currently.
The company has subsequently completed two capital raisings to fund expansion of its operations, including a large manufacturing plant at Henderson.
Subsea Energy Australia is a not-for-profit business development association, aimed at championing the Australian subsea industry and promoting its capabilities to regional and global markets.
Established in 2008, SEA was modelled on Subsea UK, and currently has 90 members including; BHP Billiton, Woodside Energy, GE Oil & Gas and Chevron Australia.
The awards were annunced at a function on Friday night.
