Company which will run Exxon oil platform seeking range of services
In an advertisement in this week’s Stabroek News, Guyana Deep Water Operations Inc (GDO) listed 31 areas for service opportunities. While difficult to quantify, it is another sign of the increased service opportunities for the economy here from ExxonMobil’s oil production which is scheduled to begin in 2020.
GDO said it is a subsidiary of SBM Offshore, the owner and operator of the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading platform which will be used for the Liza1 well which was discovered in 2015.
GDO invited expressions of interest in the following areas:
*Travel agency – support the coordination of flights and hotel and car rental to and from Guyana for crew; *Real estate agency; *Tax, financial and/or regulatory consultancy; *Office maintenance services; *IT support – onshore to offshore set up; *Phone services – land and mobile; *Medical care and exams services; *Logistics – freight forwarding – customs brokerage; *laboratory services – fuel and lubricating oil analysis; *Testing and calibration of equipment and tools; *Mechanical equipment repair and overhaul; *Electrical equipment repair and overhaul; *Steel prefabrication and construction workshops; *Non-destructive testing services; *Technical consultant services – electrical, instrumentation; largest stakeholder group, the Guyanese population, can understand.
Having regard to its obligation to serve as a critical link between the policy makers and the public in terms of ensuring a smooth two-way flow of information (which, by definition means that media reportage must be presented in a manner that enables effective public understanding) the media itself must not only be well informed but must also be sufficiently ‘comfortable’ with (and confident in) the information it receives that it can perform its reporting functions in a manner that enables effective information dissemination.
There can be no question regarding the level of public interest and what is, frequently, the dichotomy between the complexity of the message and the lack of understanding of the receiver. A few nights ago the Stabroek Business was invited to participate in an off-the-record gaff between a small group of very ordinary (ordinary but by no means unintelligent) Guyanese and one of the most eminent *Printed circuit heat exchangers and plates heat exchangers cleaning and refurbishment;
*Communication – VSAT, navigation and marine equipment maintenance and certification; *Catering services, general food supplies; *Medical services onshore and offshore; *Industrial gases; *Nitrogen purging and pressure testing *Maintenance, inspection & recertification – life boat, life rafts, fire extinguishers etc; *Painting (offshore); *Scaffolding services (offshore); *Personal protective equipment (onshore & offshore); *Rope access (offshore); *Diving & ROV services (offshore); *Laser measurement and scanning services (offshore); *HVAC, tanks and pressure vessel cleaning; *Environmental measurement, recording and reporting; *General ship handling, consumables. The ad sets various deadlines for expression of interest. Emails could be sent to: GuyanaDeepwaterOperationsInc@SBMOffshore.com All interested companies must register with the Centre for Local Business Development in Guyana via www.CLBDGuyana.com or by visiting the centre. Guyanese scientists living and working in the diaspora. The forum had been arranged to facilitate they very kind of discourse that has been lacking in Guyana in the subject of oil and gas. It was an exciting forum particularly because, on the one hand, it was benefitting from the presence of a reputable Guyanese scientist with impeccable credentials, on the one hand, but on the other the ‘audience’ could feel free not to have any inhibitions whatsoever about exposing their lack of knowledge of the subject. What made the forum valuable was the complete absence of inhibition that informed the exchange and it was because of that very communication that a lot was said and a lot was learnt and because of the presence of someone “who knew,” a number of myths were dispelled and at least for the small numbers there present what resulted was a considerable degree of enlightenment. What transpired at that forum was a microcosm of what ought to be a wider preoccupation on the part of the Government of Guyana.