The Trinidad and Tobago-owned company RAMPS Logistics, which is currently providing support services to international operations involved in Guyana’s oil recovery exercise is crediting its local subsidiary, El Dorado Offshore (EDO), with playing an integral role in the process through the contribution which El Dorado has made to providing more than four hundred Guyanese workers with skills that are important to the overall execution of the oil recovery process.
Information made available to the Stabroek Business recently by RAMPS’ Georgetown administrative operations, state that the 2017 launch of El Dorado Offshore, “one of the biggest recruitment companies in the Caribbean’s energy sector,” saw the new entity become engaged in embracing the challenge of “finding persons to fill critical offshore positions in the energy sector” by investing in ensuring that Guyanese achieve the requisite training to acquire the skills and certification that would properly position them to fill key positions.
And according to RAMPS Logistics, the company’s initiative and the response of its subsidiary have paid dividends for Guyana’s oil and gas sector on account of the training which Guyanese have received in disciplines that are critical to the development of the local industry. RAMPS says in its statement that the work of El Dorado Offshore has resulted in Guyanese being appointed to various key positions in the country’s wider oil and gas recovery operations including those of Health and Safety Officers, General Managers, Senior Engineers and Head Cooks “among many other top positions on and offshore.”
In alluding to what RAMPS describes as “the strategic direction that it had taken in pursuit of its local operations,” the company says, as part of the information made available to the Stabroek Business, that that direction “had been informed by the conviction that “Guyanese should be the first to benefit from the opportunities that derived from the country’s oil and gas sector. “We felt that it was important that we go the extra mile to provide the training,” head of EDO Guyana, Sherry Ferrell is quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, RAMPS noted that at the outset, the training required by Guyanese to undertake offshore positions required EDO’s collaboration with others of its clients at other locations including Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, and Houston, Texas.
The information made available to this newspaper by RAMPS also deals with aspects of RAMPS’ offshore training through “Job Camps” held at Hopetown, Anna Regina, Kamarang, Port Mourant, and Mabaruma, through which it said, attendees secured “employment opportunities.”
RAMPS says, meanwhile, that El Dorado Offshore has several initiatives planned for Guyana in 2023 including “workshops and job camps” designed to ensure that “Guyanese are well positioned to benefit from their oil resource.” The RAMPS statement says that a team “will be heading back into the hinterland region to provide opportunities for persons to gain meaningful jobs in the energy sector. EDO will also continue to work with its employees to build their capacity and ensure they are equipped to take up more complex roles,” according to the information afforded this newspaper.
RAMPS has been at the centre of attention over its battle to be certified by the Local Content Secretariat.
