Prime Minister Mark Phillips opened a new private shore base facility today which will service the oil and gas sector. 

In welcoming another investment in the country’s growing economy, Prime Minister Phillips said the government is pushing to ensure more Guyanese also benefit from Guyana’s successes.

He said “in every country’s success, its people must be involved. Its people must be able to feel the success as their own and reap the benefits of that success. Ownership and inclusion of a country’s people are imperative not only for the country’s development but for the social and economic betterment of citizens”.

The new shore base facility, TechnipFMC is located at McDoom on the East Bank of Demerara. It will provide equipment and services to the ExxonMobil offshore operations.

Prime Minister Phillips praised the new company for its use of a Guyanese workforce throughout its construction process and now with its operations.

“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”.

The President of TechnipFMC, Jon Landes said 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”.

Government officials and officials of the ExxonMobil company were on hand for the opening of the new facility. 

The ExxonMobil company has explained that since oil was first discovered in Guyana seven years ago, the industry has grown continuously with investments by Exxon approaching US$30 Billion.

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