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LETs Pitch program

27/10/2022

LETs Pitch is a supply chain development program designed and delivered by NERA to accelerate the growth of Australian technology businesses offering cutting-edge solutions that can support Australia's net zero future.

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Oceania Marine Energy | LETs Pitch WA 22

05/10/2022

Oceania Marine Energy has the ambition to deliver the world's first carbon-free ammonia bunkering vessel, targeting maximum impact by providing low and zero-carbon fuel to the massive and hard to abate iron ore shipping fleet out of the Pilbara.

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9 Tech Solutions | LETs Pitch WA 22

05/10/2022

9 Tech Solutions are an engineering company developing an Australian first multimodal hydrogen battery energy storage and refuelling system capable of facilitating the unconstrained and rapid uptake of renewables, while providing a liquid fuel supplement for the concurrent uptake of hydrogen vehicles.

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KC8 Capture Technologies | LETs Pitch WA 22

05/10/2022

KC8 Capture Technologies is a process engineering firm that has developed the technology and owns the patents to an Australian developed solvent process for the capture of CO2 from post combustion flue gases in heavy industries at greater efficiencies and lower cost than current technologies.

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Integrated Ocean Energy Marketplace

12/04/2022

NERA is helping to stimulate market demand for offshore renewable energy in Australia by supporting the Australian Ocean Energy Group (AOEG) — an industry-led ocean energy cluster — to establish the world's first Integrated Ocean Energy Marketplace.

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GeneratER challenge drone demonstration

01/03/2022

World-first local drone technology has taken to the skies as part of NERA's GeneratER Program. WA-based SMEs Cumulus Projects and Elk Fish Robotics are working with Chevron Australia on a solution to develop Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Areas (EEHA) certified drones that can fly into hazardous areas and use onboard sensors to investigate abnormal situations such as the detection of gas leaks.

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GeneratER opens opportunities for local SMEs

15/12/2021

At a recent end-of-year event, NERA announced the SMEs who successfully secured pilots with Chevron Australia as part of the GeneratER Program. NERA also launched Round Two of the GeneratER Program, which offers Western Australia's SMEs the opportunity to partner with Shell Australia.

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Magneto-EX - the future of robotic inspections

20/08/2021

On 26 August 2021, NERA hosted the launch of Nexxis' Magneto-EX, the world’s first, fully design approved EX-rated robotic camera inspection device.

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GeneratER Launch Event

25/06/2021

On 10 June 2021, NERA launched the GeneratER open innovation challenge program in Perth, which included presentations from Chris Clark, JTSI, Miranda Taylor, NERA, and Tim McCarthy, Chevron Australia, as well as a Q&A session with Dave Sharp, EcoQuip Australia. These presentations are accessible below.

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Webinar: NDRI Science Symposium

23/06/2021

The NDRI Science Symposium provides the first public overview of the six current projects funded by the National Decommissioning Research Initiative (NDRI).

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Project results: National database to improve impact assessments for life of mine activities

14/12/2020

This webinar detailed results from an Australian collaborative research project that is helping to improve and reduce uncertainties with environmental radiological impact assessments in the energy and mining sectors.

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Project spotlight: SPEE3D fast on-site metal 3D-printing technology

09/12/2020

Melbourne-based SPEE3D has re-written the rules for 3D printing and, with support from NERA, Santos and Charles Darwin University, is not only enhancing Australia's sovereign capability in manufacturing, but also translating world-leading research into a truly commercial opportunity.

While existing 3D printing technology suits niche manufacturing, the SPEE3D printer is a game-changer for on-site, fast, high-volume parts that are crucial for Australia's energy resources sector.

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Webinar: Regional Hydrogen Technology Clusters Seed Funding Information Session

17/09/2020

This interactive webinar outlines how NERA's Hydrogen Seed Funding Program works, the eligibility criteria, the application process and how to develop a competitive application.

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Webinar: CRC-P insights — the application process explained

23/07/2020

This interactive webinar with guest presenter Martin Dent, Manager of CRC Projects for the Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, helps businesses understand the CRC-P eligibility criteria, navigate the application process and develop a potentially successful application for this highly competitive program.

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Webinar series: Growing Australia's Oil & Gas Supply Chain

04/06/2020

This three-part webinar series breaks down the key findings of NERA's ‘Growing Australia’s Oil & Gas Supply Chain’ report, highlighting the central challenges and growth opportunities for the supply chain, and discussing with industry innovators their insights and experience of growing domestic and global markets, as well as working in high cost environments.

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Webinar series: From Adversity to Advantage: a recipe for building a resilient business

30/04/2020

NERA is pleased to share recordings of our five-part ‘From Adversity to Advantage: a recipe for building a resilient business’ webinar series, which explored business resilience and provided practical steps, examples and strategies for small-to-medium-sized businesses, comprising part of our COVID-19 response initiatives.

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TSBE Webinar: Understanding opportunities and innovation for the future of energy supply chains

23/04/2020

In April 2020, Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise (TSBE) hosted this webinar with industry experts, including NERA, aimed at providing information for businesses involved in the energy supply chain to discuss upcoming opportunities and innovation for the future as supported by the Southern Queensland Innovation in Export Hub (SQ Export Hub) program.

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Introducing JIP33

16/04/2020

This video introduces JIP33 and standardising procurement specifications across international oil and gas industry, which were showcased at four-day International Standards Showcase in 2018 hosted by NERA and Woodside Energy.

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Minister Andrews announces NERA projects in Perth

17/03/2020

Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, the Hon. Karen Andrews joined NERA in Perth in March 2020 to announce two new NERA projects that are helping Australian innovators tackle industry challenges from deep in our ocean to outer space.

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NERA Highlights URTeC 2019

17/03/2020

New energy technologies that can make resources operations safer, more sustainable and help industry transition to a low-carbon future were on show for global industry stakeholders as part of the 2019 Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) from 18–19 November 2019 in Brisbane.

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Global Tech Xchange to Aberdeen

02/12/2019

In September 2019, four of Australia's leading energy innovators — Cumulus Projects, Frontier Automation, iSOL8 and Mapizy — showed the world that Australia is home to some of the most exciting technology developments on offer to global operators.

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Project spotlight: TASER Living Lab

19/09/2019

Through the collaborative TASER Living Lab project, four 'living laboratories' have been designed to help Australia's oil & gas industry tackle the sector-wide costs incurred from operating in Australia's challenging warm water environment.

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Project spotlight: Exmouth Integrated Artificial Reef

19/09/2019

The Exmouth Integrated Artificial Reef, named ' The King Reef' by the Exmouth community, was installed in the waters of the Exmouth Gulf in July 2018. Through NERA's funding, industry support and driven by Subcon's innovative technology and experience in subsea hydrodynamics and marine asset stabilisation, this 'rigs to reef' project is unlike any other. What makes this project so unique is the reef is partially made up of repurposed offshore structures from the oil and gas industry.

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Imagine Intelligent Materials

30/05/2018

Imagine Intelligent Materials is a developer of graphene-based solutions that effectively allows infrastructure and industrial components to communicate to users in real time. They received a NERA Innovation Voucher in 2017 to help continue their development of predictive maintenance applications.

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Rusca Bros Group

18/12/2017

Rusca Bros Group, based in Darwin, won a contract to supply waste management services to Shell Australia's Prelude Floating LNG project.

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Universal Site Monitoring

28/11/2017

Universal Site Monitoring was founded seven years ago by local businessmen Emil Tastula and Andrew Thurlow. Their idea to develop a real-time safety device for workers was conceived by Emil after years of exposure to the results of poor safety practices.

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Northern Territory Training Collaboration

28/11/2017

With the size and training requirements of the Northern Territory's oil and gas workforce changing as construction of the INPEX Ichthys LNG Project nears completion, three very different organisations are working together to ensure sustainable training services in the long term.

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MMC Australia

28/11/2017

MMC Australia is a family owned engineering, fabrication and maintenance company that employs over 150 people out of Darwin.

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A&B Welding

28/11/2017

A&B Welding is a Darwin-based, specialised welding company that has serviced the local oil and gas industry since it started in 1986. When Tracy and Grant Ryan bought the business in 2011, they were immediately challenged by falling oil prices and needed to respond quickly.

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SPEE3D & Charles Darwin University

28/11/2017

A world-first 3D printer that creates metal parts very quickly and cheaply is providing a new direction and potential new markets for the technology. Northern Territory innovators SPEE3D are now working with Charles Darwin University

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Soter Analytics

14/09/2017

Soter Analytics is a Perth-based start-up that received a NERA Innovation Voucher for their SoterSpine solution - a low-cost, wearable product that monitors and records at-risk body posture movements to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace.

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TENSA Equipment

24/07/2017

Engineering solutions provider, TENSA Equipment, was recently awarded two grants under the inaugural NERA Innovation Voucher program, which supports small and medium enterprises (SMEs) develop innovative solutions to technical problems in the energy resources industry.

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Pinssar

24/07/2017

Developing a world-first continuous Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) Reader took longer than they expected, but there were more challenges for Brisbane-based company Pinssar once the commercialisation process began.

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INX Software

24/07/2017

INX Software is a successful Australian software company with an increasingly international outlook. Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, INX Software offers a suite of integrated products to a range of industries across the globe.

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Subcon

14/06/2017

Subcon is a marine asset stabilisation company with a remarkable 80 per cent market share in Australia. Established in 2011, Subcon has built an impressive, global resume of projects by providing rapid installation of innovative products in the offshore and nearshore environments.

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MyPass

12/05/2017

MyPass is an innovative workforce management system connecting workers, employers and sites. Through a synchronised, secure web-based portal, MyPass offers significant cost reductions to the energy resources sector.

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Geo Oceans

12/05/2017

Geo Oceans started as a small business monitoring seagrass with a camera towed behind a boat and is now conducting industry-first surveys on oil and gas facilities using remotely operated vehicles. It has achieved this by working collaboratively, committing to research and development, and finding new applications for its technologies.

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Energy Pipelines Cooperative Research Centre

22/08/2016

The Energy Pipelines Cooperative Research Centre (EPCRC) provided Australian industry with technology to extend the life of the existing natural gas transmission network for better, cheaper and safer networks that can support increased demand for energy.

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InSafe Joint Industry Project

22/08/2016

Industry collaboration project InSafeJIP provided new guidelines for engineers to use in their daily prediction of whether a jack-up unit is safe to install, operate and remove from an offshore oil and gas site.

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