Fourteen of ExxonMobil Guyana’s offshore workers have tested positive for COVID-19.
Following a report by online news site News Source, the company confirmed in a statement that the rotational workers that support the company’s operations offshore had tested positive and are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms of the virus.
Of the 14 persons who have tested positive, 11 are currently isolated on the contracted “Noble Tom Madden” ultra-deepwater drillship, while the other three are at isolation facilities onshore. “These individuals have been appropriately isolated to limit the spread of the virus. Eleven remain in isolation on the Noble Tom Madden, and three have been transferred to appropriate isolation facilities onshore under the care and custody of their employer,” the statement said.
The company added that plans are in place to have those 11 workers transferred to facilities onshore if necessary as it has processes in place to manage outbreaks. It credited those processes as being what led to the cases being identified.
“In [April] 2020, ExxonMobil Guyana established COVID-19 prevention screening facilities in country and abroad to safely manage rotators coming in and departing the country. Since this arrangement began, we successfully transferred more than ten thousand persons without a positive case offshore,” it noted.
It also said that there are medical professionals onboard the offshore facilities managed by the company and added that precautions are taken to monitor the health of those workers and subsequently administer the necessary treatment.
Operations onboard its six drill ships and the Liza Destiny FPSO are not affected, according to ExxonMobil.
