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WGIM invests in Queensland

Wood Group Integrity Management (WGIM) has identified the Coal Seam Methane (CSM) business in Queensland as a significant new business opportunity and is actively recruiting locally and internationally to grow and expand the range of local services in the Brisbane Office.

With project approvals reaching A$50bn over the past six months, WGIM sees strong opportunities for business growth and diversity, in this new industry sector and has invested accordingly in setting up a local office in the Brisbane CBD to specifically service and support the CSM industry.

Mr. Kelly Reilly has been appointed the Brisbane Business Manager. Kelly, originally from Brisbane, brings a strong pedigree with WGIM having originally joined the London office in 2002 before moving to Perth in 2006. Kelly is a degree qualified Materials Engineer, who holds chartered engineering status. His core knowledge is enhanced with his recent design experience on a major LNG project that included development of the strategy for the IMR (inspection, maintenance and repair), operations support and pre-commissioning activities

To augment the growth into the CSM business, WGIM has reinforced its Australian offering with the appointment of Mr. Jim Gillespie as Risk & Reliability Business Team Lead based in Perth. An accomplished Risk Manager with over 24 years of experience, Jim brings a wealth of experience from previous Safety and Risk Management roles.

Operations Director for Asia Pacific, Enda O’Sullivan said, "Kelly's appointment reinforces WGIM’s continued growth over the past ten years, and recognizes the strong engineering talent pool within WGIM. It is very pleasing to have such a capable engineer as Kelly to head up our Brisbane office, and reinforces our policy of hiring talented professionals and recognising their performance. We have a very clear vision of technical excellence in our service offerings, with training and development key to realising this vision. Kelly has recently achieved Chartered Professional Engineer status with Engineers Australia (EA), through our accredited development programme with EA."

WGIM is an independent engineering & management company, specialising in all-of-asset integrity assurance with extensive materials engineering resources, service life prediction and inspection management expertise in the oil & gas petrochemicals, power, mining & mineral processing. It is part of Wood Group Kenny,the world's largest specialist subsea, pipeline and riser engineering and management contractor employing more than 2,000 worldwide. Wood Group has a growing presence in Australia with recent contract wins including Wood Group Kenny in Western Australia with Woodside for the Browse LNG development and Wood Group Wagners for the GLNG Pipeline Project in Queensland.

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