Local businessmen at Newfoundland oil conference

Participants at the NOIA conference, from left to right: Tarachandra Khellawan, CGX; Andreas Talea, Head of Port Authority Suriname; Suresh Beharry, Beharry Group; Suriname Natural Resources Minister Jim Hok; Canadian High Commissioner David Devine; August Nelson, State Oil Company, Suriname; Jay Bachoe, Advisor to Suriname Minister of Natural Resources; Deo Persaud, Neal and Massy, Marny Daal-Vogelland, State Oil Company, Suriname and Anand Beharry of the Beharry Group.

A high-level team from Suriname and Guyana participated this week in the prestigious Newfoundland Offshore Industries conference (NOIA) in Atlantic Canada to learn from and share best practices at the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas experience.

According to a press release from the Canadian High Commission, Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana and Suriname David Devine coordinated the mission which included Suriname’s Minister of Natural Resources Jim Hok, representatives from the state oil company Staatsolie,