Sponsors
The Sponsors

Santos

Santos is a major Australian oil and gas exploration and production company with interests and operations in every major Australian petroleum province and in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan and Egypt.

They are Australia’s largest domestic gas producer, supplying sales gas to all mainland Australian states and territories, ethane to Sydney, and oil and liquids to domestic and international customers.

Through their interest in the Darwin LNG project, they are a producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) which is exported to customers in Japan. The Cooper Basin, which Santos and its joint venture partners have developed, is Australia’s largest onshore resources project.

Santos has more than 1,750 employees and produced 59.1 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2007.

Santos has the largest Australian exploration portfolio by area of any company – 192,000 square kilometres – and is pursuing new venture opportunities with a focus on Asia. At 31 December 2007, Santos had a total market capitalisation of approximately $8.3 billion, making it one of Australia’s Top 40 companies.

Santos

ARRK

For the past 15 years, Arrk has been at the forefront of introducing technologies that enhance design and reduce “time-to-market” for new product development. Arrk is part of a global organisation, employing 50 people in Australia and 25,000 people worldwide in the areas of Rapid Prototyping, Production Tooling, Moulding, Painting/Printing and Sub-Assembly.

Arrk supplies prototypes and production parts to a wide range of industries, our project managers work closely with our customers to understand program requirements, to make sure we meet quality expectations and deliver products on-time and within budget.

In recent times Arrk has taken on distributorship of 3D printing machines, allowing companies to affordably make Rapid Prototyping technology an in-house process, in order to advance their design departments and reduce design development costs.

GPA Engineering

GPA Engineering Pty Ltd (GPA) was established in 1987. The company provides engineering and management services in the following key areas:
• Project and Construction Management

• Feasibility and Concept Engineering

• Engineering Design – Control, Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation

• Control System Integration

• SCADA System Engineering

• Safety and Risk Engineering

• Operations Support

GPA provides the above core services to the following industries;
• Oil & Gas – Field Development, Pipeline, Processing & Distribution

• Manufacturing

• Metals / Minerals Processing

• Water Treatment, Handling and Distribution

• Chemical – Petrochemical, Industrial Processing and Liquids Handling & Transportation

• Power Generation and Distribution

The Company comprises a total of seventy (70) engineering and drafting personnel, most of who have recent and substantial project experience in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.

GPA Engineering

Netfox

The NetFox product improves the profitability and safety of an organisation’s internet usage. NetFox provides intelligent content filtering, real-time usage reporting, advanced quota management and billing. In addition to its NetFox product, the NetFox company undertakes software development projects specializing in Ruby on Rails but with expertise in many code languages. NetFox also offers web and DNS hosting and is Australia’s first dedicated web host for the emerging Ruby on Rails technology.

Netfox

SA Water

SA Water is an internationally recognised water utility wholly owned by the Government of South Australia for the people of South Australia. We deliver water and wastewater services to almost 1.4 million people across the State.

With an annual turnover of about $750 million per annum, assets of more than $6 billion and more than 1300 staff, SA Water is a big part of the South Australian landscape. We can trace our history back to 1856.

As one of Australia’s leading water utilities, SA Water:
• Has an annual turnover of $750 million

• Employs more than 1300 people

• Delivers about 277,000 megalitres of water across the State each year

• Reuses about 20% of wastewater in metropolitan areas and almost 15% in country areas, mainly for irrigation purposes

• We are engaged in several unique outsourcing contracts

SA Water is responsible for assisting to develop the South Australian water industry. Working with the private sector, employment in local water industry companies in South Australia has increased by 9% and revenue has soared by 20% over the past three years.

Our Engineering team at SA Water provides much of the technical expertise enabling SA Water to be an informed client. The section has a wide degree of technical knowledge and expertise in the fields of water, wastewater, civil, dams, geotechnical, electrical, mechanical engineering, materials science, estimating and design.

SA Water has a high profile graduate program which provides a structured yet flexible two year program. It is designed to fast track graduate’s knowledge and skills in order to prepare them for an ongoing role in the business. For more information on this program please log on to our website at www.sawater.com.au and follow the links to our Careers and Training section.

SA Water