As lo­cal ca­pac­i­ty in Guyana con­tin­ues to in­crease, Exxon­Mo­bil says more ser­vices are be­ing moved from Trinidad and To­ba­go to the South Amer­i­can coun­try, where it is the op­er­a­tor of the Stabroek, Kai­eteur and Can­je Blocks, a re­port from Oil­NOW has stat­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­cent in­ter­view with Oil­NOW at the Saipem Off­shore Con­struc­tion Fa­cil­i­ty in George­town, Pres­i­dent of Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana, Al­is­tair Rout­ledge, said much has changed in Guyana from the ear­ly days when the com­pa­ny start­ed ex­plo­ration ac­tiv­i­ties and made the world-class Liza dis­cov­ery.

“In the ear­ly days, when we start­ed ex­plo­ration, there was no in­fra­struc­ture, no ex­per­tise, no his­to­ry to lever­age so we had to utilise the ex­ist­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ty, the ex­ist­ing fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad,” Rout­ledge said. “Over time, now that we have that line of sight to more de­vel­op­ment, we can con­tin­ue this in­vest­ment jour­ney and move more of that work, the fa­cil­i­ties, the ca­pa­bil­i­ty to Guyana.”

The sup­ply chain ca­pac­i­ty in the new oil pro­duc­ing coun­try has been grow­ing ex­po­nen­tial­ly over the years.

A grow­ing num­ber of Guyanese com­pa­nies have been en­ter­ing part­ner­ships and start­ing op­er­a­tions to ser­vice the ex­pand­ing off­shore ac­tiv­i­ties where mul­ti­ple ex­plo­ration ap­praisal and de­vel­op­ment drilling cam­paigns are un­der­way.

Lo­cal fab­ri­ca­tion com­pa­ny Guyana Oil and Gas Sup­port Ser­vices Inc. (GOGSSI) re­cent­ly pro­vid­ed the work­force to Saipem for the as­sem­bly, test­ing, coat­ing, and load­ing of mas­sive sub­sea jumpers for the sec­ond phase of Exxon­Mo­bil’s Liza de­vel­op­ment. This work was pre­vi­ous­ly done in Trinidad.

“I’m re­al­ly ex­cit­ed to say that by some­time in 2022, vir­tu­al­ly all of that sup­ply chain, all of that work will have been moved to Guyana from Trinidad,” Rout­ledge stat­ed, point­ing out that this will be a ma­jor mile­stone for the coun­try and a sig­nif­i­cant step for­ward for lo­cal con­tent de­vel­op­ment.

Al­ready, GOGSSI and an­oth­er lo­cal com­pa­ny—In­dus­tri­al Fab­ri­ca­tions Inc (In­Fab), are fab­ri­cat­ing equip­ment for the Pros­per­i­ty FP­SO which is be­ing con­struct­ed in Sin­ga­pore for Exxon­Mo­bil’s third de­vel­op­ment in Guyana.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, as the largest lo­cal shore base fa­cil­i­ty – Guyana Shore Base Inc., con­tin­ues to ex­pand its op­er­a­tions and ca­pa­bil­i­ties, oth­er such fa­cil­i­ties are al­so be­ing planned in an­tic­i­pa­tion of around 10 FP­SOs ex­pect­ed to be pro­duc­ing oil off the coun­try’s coast in the com­ing years.

To date, Exxon­Mo­bil has found more than 9 bil­lion bar­rels of oil equiv­a­lent off­shore Guyana and is pur­su­ing an ag­gres­sive ex­plo­ration cam­paign that will see it drilling over 50 wells through 2025.