SCOTTISH engineering group Wood Group Kenny and Perth companies 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, recently including Woodside’s Browse and Apache Energy’s Julimar developments.
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. Its shares have risen from an issue price of $1 to $8.15 currently.
