Chinese bidders for gas plant deny being blacklisted by World Bank

An artist’s impression of the natural gas plant (Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited image)

Two Chinese firms among the five being evaluated for the tender to build the natural gas-fired power plant at Wales have publicly disputed that they were ever blacklisted by the World Bank for procurement violations.

“We, China Machinery Engineering Corporation (“CMEC” for short), recently learnt from the local media KAIETEUR NEWS that three Chinese firms competing to build Guyana’s Natural Gas Fired Power Plant at Wales, West Bank Demerara (WBD) were blacklisted by the World Bank. As one of the three Chinese firms involving in that report, we hereby declare that the reports about CMEC are seriously untrue,” a statement from the company read.