Western Australia’s Innovators of the Year (WAIOTY) awards has showcased innovative and entrepreneurial individuals, businesses and creative minds since 2006. This program recognises Western Australian innovators with 8 awards across 6 categories, sharing in a prize pool of $240,000.

Integrated IP (IIP) is proud to announce that two of our clients have been selected out of the three finalists for the 2024 Woodside Energy Platinum Award for Energy Innovation award:

Strada Percussion Drilling Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd 

Strada’s Dual Circulation Water Hammer Drilling System utilises the benefits of mud rotary drilling to control, stabilise and lift cuttings out of drill holes in the ground. It uses a hammering action to maintain a high penetration rate without tool wear and is not affected by water entering the drilled hole, unlike other drilling methods. It takes advantage of the safety aspects of drilling with mud fluids while taking advantage of the high penetration of percussion drilling systems in hard rock.

WaveX 

WaveX’s D-Spar is a renewable energy platform technology that converts the motion created by ocean waves, into green electricity for industrial and utility scale power consumption. The D-Spar is a large industrial sized, floating steel buoy capable of producing green electrons which can then be used across a wide variety of industries and applications.

A big congratulations from IIP to Stada and WaveX for becoming finalists and to all the other innovators in this year’s awards.