The US$300m Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI) facility on the West Coast of Demerara which encompasses this country’s first man-made island has suffered work delays but it is not expected to affect the current contract arrangement with ExxonMobil or delay offshore works, sources say.
Sources close to the project told the Stabroek News that the project “Is coming in late, in terms of handing over, but this would not affect anything with Exxon and there is no cause for alarm”.
The first phase of the project was expected to be completed by December last year but sources say that there will now be a two-month delay in that aspect, given the technicalities of the work programme and other factors relating to construction.
This newspaper reached out to the company for insight into engineering and other works done here, including an overall update of the project but was told that, “There will no comment from the company at this time.”
