Seven graduate engineers hired by ExxonMobil contractor SBM Offshore have arrived in Singapore for hands-on training on the Prosperity Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel which will support the Payara development in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana.
A release yesterday from ExxonMobil subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited said that the five men and two women arrived in Singapore on Monday. In August last year they travelled to the Netherlands where they spent six months undergoing training, the release said.
The graduate engineers returned to Guyana in February before the final stint of training.
“While in the Netherlands we were placed into different departments; we worked with engineers on drawings and so on. In Singapore, we will be more focused on construction,” Tanisha Selby said.
Her colleague Kishaun Lall spoke on his expectations for the Singapore leg.
“That is where the real excitement is I would say, the construction aspect of it. Being a civil engineer by profession it would definitely pique my interest to see how all these large modules are being constructed, the different processes a company like SBM Offshore would use on an international scale compared to what we have in Guyana.”
The other graduate engineers are Malik Lewis, Raymond Luckhoo, Paula Ceres, Daniel Troyer, and Andy Sattan. They were recruited from the University of Guyana in 2021.
