Now in its 19th year, the Western Australia's Innovators of the Year Awards 2025 program showcases and supports local innovative and entrepreneurial individuals, businesses and creative minds.
The Woodside Energy Platinum Award category is awarded to a Western Australian innovator who has developed a product or service that inspires and informs the future direction of oil, gas, and new energy production in Western Australia with new technology and new business models.
The winner of this category will be awarded a cash prize of $30,000.
This year, there are 4 finalists for the 2025 Woodside Energy Platinum Award for Energy Innovation award.
Clear Carbon
Clear Carbon - intelligent, real-time emissions automation for air, water, land
Clear Carbon is a Western Australian climate-tech innovator solving one of heavy industry’s most persistent challenges: the inability to accurately track, report, and reduce emissions across air, water, and land at enterprise scale and in real time.
Manual, siloed processes can’t keep up with complex operations, global compliance standards, and mounting pressure for supply-chain transparency. Our intelligent, cloud-native platform delivers finance-grade accuracy, full audit trails, and actionable insights through proprietary technologies - Emissions Prism™, Carbon Fabric™, Rapid Onboarding Automation, Energy Insights, and advanced predictive analytics.
Clear Carbon transforms compliance into competitive advantage, accelerates industrial decarbonisation, and positions Western Australia as a global centre for sustainability innovation.
Hayes Recycling
Recycling the unrecyclable: Western Australia’s subsea umbilical, riser and flowlines
Paul and Chris Coyte are Co-founders and Directors of Hayes Recycling, a company specializing in the recycling of end of life, subsea pipelines. These subsea pipelines are designed to be near indestructible, making them incredibly difficult to recycle at scale. This groundbreaking, proprietary recycling technology, extracts the various polymer and metals from within the pipelines enabling them to be recycled. With a minimum recycling rate of 95%, the technology that Paul and Chris co-developed sets a new standard for sustainable innovation in Australia, supporting the circular economy.
Molyneux Advisors
Grain-e: Digital twin of wellbore geology
Molyneux Advisors generates value for clients through transforming the way energy industry technical problems are tackled. Grain-e is our take on wellbore geology. Text, or longhand geological descriptions of rocks have an in-built interpretation bias, poor sampling and are resistant to digitisation. Grain-e changes that.
Grain-e is an AI tool that digitises and statistically describes every single chip / grain in our images of rock chips. These digital data quantify the description of rock chip images; can be queried and filtered interactively; and directly imported into geological modelling packages.
Xplorate Pacific
Xplorate Aerial Intelligence: Bridging the gap between traditional aviation operations and modern data gathering and analytics
Xplorate is a leading unmanned aircraft and data intelligence services, delivering critical services to energy industries. Equipped with advances sensors, we detect issues in real time, enabling rapid response and reduced risk. Our unmanned aircraft technology, paired with the Xplorate Intelligence, transforms raw data into actionable insights for predictive maintenance, operational efficiency, and risk reduction. Through rigorous six step process, Xplorate ensures safety, precision and innovation, supporting industry transformation and environmental responsibility in Australia’s energy transition.
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