Young achievers
Recognising the value, exceptional achievements and significant impact of those inspirational and dedicated South Australians in the energy, resources and/or ETS sector aged 30 years or younger.
Sanchita Anand
Commissioning Engineer with BHP
Read more about Sanchita's career development
Krystina Hudson
Superintendent of Training Development at BHP Olympic Dam
Read more about Krystina's career development
Amy Leask
Project Geologist for BHP's Oak Dam Resource Strategy Team
Read more about Amy's career development
Lakita Kean - Winner Young Indigenous Achiever; Finalist Young Achiever
Asset Integrity Specialist within the Governance and Technical Stewardship department at Olympic Dam
Read more about Lakita's career development
Krystin Mance
BHP Prominent Hill Graduate - Social Performance
Read more about Krystin's career development
Jack Mesecke - Finalist
Operations Team Lead, MaxMine
Read more about Jack's career development
Charleigh Mewburn
Superintendent of Facilities Management at BHP Olympic Dam
Read more about Charleigh's career development
Siddharth Shah - Finalist
Product Owner at MaxMine
Read more about Siddharth's career development
Georgia Sleep - Winner Young Achiever
Village Supervisor at BHP Olympic Dam
Read more about Georgia's career development
Peter Weli - Finalist
Lead Commissioning at BHP
Read more about Peter's career development
Community
Recognising demonstrated excellence in working with local, regional or state-wide communities to deliver positive outcomes.
Winner: Community - Energy sector
ElectraNet Pty Ltd with Barngala Determination Aboriginal Corporation
Program: Eyre Peninsula Link (EPLink) Cultural Heritage Monitoring Program
Find out more about the EPLink program
Commendation: Community - Energy sector
Royal Automobile Association of South Australia
Project: RAA Charge - South Australia's electric vehicle (EV) charging network
Find out more about the RAA Charge network
Santos
Program/Project: Santos and Indigenous partnership for Port Bonython Operations
Find out more about Santos' Indigenous partnership
Santos
Program/Project: Community Partnership - Conservation of the Australian giant cuttlefish
Find out more about Santos' community partnership to conserve the giant cuttlefish
Tesla
Project: South Australia's Virtual Power Plant (SA VPP)
Commendation: Community - Resources sector
BHP with Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Corporation
Program: Resource Industry Pathways
Find out more about the Resource Industry Pathways
Commendation: Community - Resources sector
BHP with Healthy Environs Pty Ltd
Program: The Community Hub at Roxby Downs in South Australia - bringing Roxby Downs and surrounding communities together
Find out more about the Community Hub at Roxby Downs
Winner: Community - Resources sector
BHP with Spencer Gulf Cities
Program: Upper Spencer Gulf socio-economic knowledge base update
Find out more about the Upper Spencer Gulf Cities knowledge base
GFG Alliance - SIMEC Mining and Liberty Primary Steel
Program: Strong partnerships and strong communities
Find out more about GFG's strong partnerships and strong communities project
Magnetite Mines Limited with District Council of Peterborough
Project: Memorandum of Understanding for community participation in the Razorback Iron Ore Project, Peterborough
Find out more about community participation in the Razorback iron ore project
Environment
Recognising demonstrated excellence in delivering positive environmental outcomes.
Winner: Environment - Energy sector
Enerven
Project: Connecting renewable projects to the electricity grid
Find out more about Enerven's renewable projects
Santos
Program/Project: Reusable lunch box trial
Find out more about Santos' reusable lunch box trial
The University of Adelaide
Project: Enhancing Underground Hydrogen Storage Assessment via Forward Geo-Mechanical Modelling during Cyclic Injection and Production: Leveraging Surface Data from Tiltmeters to Assess Deformation Source Intensity
Find out more about the underground hydrogen storage project
Commendation: Environment - Resources sector
Hanson Construction Materials Pty Ltd
Program/Project: Planting day at White Rock Quarry
Safety and wellbeing - health and safety
Recognising demonstrated excellence in the development and/or implementation of an innovative solution to an identified work health and safety issue.
Clarke Energy (Australia Pty Ltd)
Program: Empowering everyone to create a safer, more conscientious future through the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) Program
Find out more about Clarke Energy's IIF program
Commendation: Health and safety - Energy sector
Santos
Program: Improving health and wellbeing habits in a high-risk workforce
Find out more about the program to improve health and wellbeing
Santos
Program/Project: Truck fleet enhancement project
Find out more about the truck fleet enhancement project
Winner: Health and safety - Energy sector
SA Power Networks
Project: River Murray Floods
Find out more about SA Power Networks work on reducing the impact of the floods
Bass Oil Cooper Basin Pty Ltd
Project: Bass Oil Safety Management System
Find out more about the safety management system
Commendation: Health and safety - Energy sector
BHP
Project: Whole body vibration project
Find out more about the whole body vibration project
Winner: Health and safety - Resources sector
KAEFER Integrated Services
Program: KAEFER SAFE hands campaign
Safety and wellbeing - inclusion and wellbeing
Recognising demonstrated excellence in solutions to identified inclusion and wellbeing issues
Winner: Inclusion and wellbeing - Energy sector
Santos
Program: Advocating for change - promoting an inclusive work environment
Commendation: Inclusion and wellbeing - Resources sector
BHP
Program: Improving inclusion and career pathways for our Indigenous employees at Olympic Dam
Find out more about BHP's career pathways for Indigenous employees
BHP
Program/Project: Olympic Dam village accommodation and transport experience
Find out more about Olympic Dam's village accommodation and transport
Winner: Inclusion and wellbeing - Resources sector
KAEFER Ingetrated Services
Program: KAEFER Scaffold Traineeship Program
Innovation and transformation - innovation and collaboration
Recognising a project or product that has improved efficiency, productivity or competitiveness.
AGL Energy
Project: Torrens Island Battery
Find out more about AGL Energy's Torrens Island Battery
Flinders University
Project: Flinders University vehicle-to-grid (V2G) initiative
Find out more about the Flinders University V2G initiative
Commendation: Innovation and collaboration - Energy sector
NDE Solutions Pty Ltd with Santos Ltd
Project: A corrosion identification and measurement project
Find out more about the NDE Solutions/Santos project
Neoen Australia with BHP Olympic Dam
Project: Neoen's renewable baseload powering BHP's Olympic Dam
Find out more about the renewable powering at Olympic Dam
Winner: Innovation and collaboration - Energy sector
SA Power Networks
Project: Flexible exports
Winner: Innovation and collaboration - ETS sector
GPA Engineering with YES Group
Project: Red Mud Green Energy (RMGE projects)
Winner: Innovation and collaboration - Resources sector
BHP with CiDRA Minerals Processing
Program/Project: Partnership with CiDRA Minerals Processing for first of a kind grind circuit rougher at Carrapateena
Find out more about BHP and CiDRA Minerals Processing grind circuit rougher
BHP with Epiroc
Program/Project: Trial of Epiroc battery M2C jumbo
Find out more about Epiroc's jumbo battery
Commendation: Innovation and collaboration - Resources sector
Custom Mining Solutions
Program/Project: The void monitor
Find out more about Custom Mining Solutions void monitor
Liberty Primary Steel
Program/Project: BOS slag utilisation
Find out more about BOS slag utilisation project
One Steel Manufacturing P/L - trading as SIMEC Mining
Program/Project: SIMEC Mining Magnetite Expansion Project - enabling GREENIRON and GREENSTEEL
Find out more about SIMEC Mining's Magnetite Expansion Project
The University of Adelaide
Program: National Exploration Undercover School (NExUS)
Find out more about The University of Adelaide's National Exploration Undercover School
Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec
Program/Project: In-situ recovery modelling using machine learning
Find out more about WGA's in-situ recovery machine learning project
Innovation and transformation - productivity improvement
Recognising a project or product that has improved efficiency, productivity or competitiveness.
Winner: Productivity and improvement - ETS sector
Digital Twinning Australia
Project: Copper Electro-Refinery Digital Twin Pilot Project
BHP
Project: Capturing the benefits from changes leading to energy efficiency and productivity improvements at Olympic Dam through REPS
Find out more about energy efficiency improvements at Olympic Dam
BHP
Program: Surface debottlenecking program (SDP) for improving efficiency, productivity and competitiveness
Find out more about BHP's SDP surface debottlenecking program
Winner: Productivity and improvement - Resources sector
Fleet Space Technologies
Project: ExoSphere by Fleet®
Find out more about the ExoSphere by Fleet® project
Liberty Primary Steel
Project: Rail Finishing End (RFE) yield improvement
Find out more about Liberty Primary Steel's RFE project
Commendation: Productivity and improvement - ETS sector
Liberty Primary Steel
Project: Slag-free tapping
Find out more about Liberty Primary Steel's slag-free tapping project
Veracio
Project: Veracio Strata Platform powered by TruStructure
