TechnipFMC Guyana on Tuesday commissioned a shore base at McDoom on the East Bank of Demerara to serve the oil and gas industry.
According to a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister, President of TechnipFMC, Jon Landes said at the ceremony that the company continues to recruit and train Guyanese.
“We are committed to continuing our development in Guyana and developing our Guyanese talent, in addition, we have over 70 local suppliers that we’ve developed”.
Speaking at the event, President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge said that since the first discovery of oil in the country seven years ago, the industry has grown tremendously with an investment approaching US$30b by ExxonMobil.
“We’re committed to developing the local content so that the people of Guyana benefit not just from the revenues of oil and gas, but also from the investment that’s taking place”.
Following a short ceremony to officially declare the 10-acre facility open, Prime Minister Mark Phillips and others were taken on a guided tour of the facility.
The Prime Minister in his remarks at the event, according to the statement, pointed to the importance of recently passed local content legislation.
“Consider the simple example of the construction for this facility. Its impressive design came at the hands of a local company with supervision by the TechnipFMC team. This is a commendable achievement that increases the competitiveness of that company and gives it a winning chance at success in its future endeavours. These are the partnerships that will help to propel our citizens to prosperity as our country develops”.
The Prime Minister, who is performing the functions of President, added that he is very pleased at the upskilling of the local labour force through the transfer of knowledge and expertise.
“TechnipFMC’s Guyana-led workforce at this location has undergone international-standard training and is now highly equipped and marketable in the fields in which the employees specialise. Such partnerships showcase the benefit that additional jobs for local professionals and businesses have on the local workforce, who profit from increased skills training and diversification in the high-demand industry of oil and gas”, he said.
On its website, TechnipFMC describes itself as a leading technology provider to the traditional and new energies industry; delivering fully integrated projects, products, and services.
“Organized in two business segments — Subsea and Surface Technologies — we will continue to advance the industry with our pioneering integrated ecosystems (such as iEPCI™, iFEED™ and iComplete™), technology leadership and digital innovation”, it stated.
