Introduction
The Guyana Supplier Forum 2025 was successfully planned and executed by the Centre for Local Business Development Inc. The forum provided an opportunity for Guyanese suppliers to receive up-to-date information on the procurement process and upcoming tenders for 2025 and longer-term, interact with key contacts, directly from ExxonMobil Guyana and its leading Prime Contractors.. The goal of the Forum was to provide Guyanese businesses with valuable insights in a more intimate setting to better foster connections and relationship building.
About the Event
The Forum took place on July 25, 2025, at the Guyana Marriott Hotel and followed the format of two distinct engagements – opening ceremony with a panel discussion and an exhibition.
The day included opening remarks from ExxonMobil Guyana and the Centre for Local Business Development (as the lead organising entity), featured speech by the President of the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber, Panel on “Driving Supplier Development Through Strategic Procurement”, and one-on-one booth sessions with Prime Contractors at their booths.
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Exhibitors
ExxonMobil Guyana is the operator of the Stabroek, Canje, and Kaieteur Blocks offshore Guyana. In June 1999, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL) signed a production sharing agreement with the Government of Guyana, for the 6.6 million acres (26,800 square kilometres) Stabroek block. As operator of the block, EEGPL holds 45 percent interest, and co-venturers (CoVs) Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. holds 30 percent interest and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited holds 25 percent interest.
The Liza Phase 1 field began producing oil and gas in 2019, less than five years after discovery and ahead of industry average, and Liza Phase 2 began producing in 2022. A third project, Payara, could start up before the end of 2023, and a fourth, Yellowtail, has also been sanctioned.
With more than 25 significant discoveries the estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block is now nearly 11 billion oil-equivalent barrels.
ExxonMobil Guyana maintains a very active community relations programme. We have, and continue to make substantial contributions through strategic community investments in the areas of environmental sustainability, STEM education, and women, youth, and community empowerment.
The Greater Guyana Initiative, funded by the Stabroek Block CoVs, is a long-term commitment (US $100M) to partner with reputable NGOs and other organisations to support capacity building, local content development and sustainable community enhancement.
We work closely with the government, the private sector and community leaders to ensure our operations in Guyana safely develop and produce the country’s resource, while positively impacting the lives of Guyanese.
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The Centre is the premier source for capacity building, advertising business opportunities, industry information, policy advocacy and networking in Guyana. The Centre plays a leading role mentoring and building the entrepreneurial, financial, human resource, supply chain, and knowledge management capacity of local businesses to succeed.
It continues to expand its programmes and engagement across all sectors of the economy to meet the growing demand of local business. The Centre’s inclusive approach helps Guyanese businesses benefit from the offshore oil and gas sector while maximising skills development, adoption of international standards and transfer of technology.
Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet. We harness the power of engineering, data, and science to redefine what’s possible. Our teams strive to make every day one with no injuries, accidents or harm to the environment.
We have a diverse portfolio of equipment and service capabilities spanning the energy and industrial value chain. Our operating segments: Oilfield Services and Equipment (OFSE) OFSE help customers operate efficiently and predictably, ensuring projects are executed right the first time and assets consistently perform at peak productivity. While Industrial Energy Technology (IET) improve efficiency for heavy and process industries. Our power generation solutions in the 5-20MW range, as well as our compression capabilities and digital solutions help serve industries to deliver better performance.
Baker Hughes in Guyana
We have an expanded presence in Guyana through a new supercenter at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, also intended to support regional customers and bolster localization efforts within South America. This multimillion-dollar investment over 15 years includes a workshop, warehouse, and laydown storage yard including maintenance facilities and equipment. We will also offer subsea equipment and installation services at the new facility and expect to employ more than 100 employees within five years, the majority expected to be Guyanese. The new multimodal supercenter complements Baker Hughes’ existing liquid mud and completion fluids plant at G-port, Georgetown, thereby providing full support to customers in Guyana and Suriname.
Baker Hughes currently provides drilling services, drill bits, and drilling and completion fluids to several drilling rigs, with its Completions and Wellbore Intervention product line supports all upper completions for development wells in Guyana. We also provide turbomachinery & process solutions and upstream chemicals to Liza Unity’s FPSO vessel in Guyana and other projects in the region.
Halliburton provides services and solutions to clients throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir. From locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production throughout the life of the asset. Halliburton Collaborate and Engineer Solutions to Maximize Asset Value for Our Customers
Halliburton has been providing various oil field services since 2015 in Guyana and has been continuously increasing its resource capacity and portfolio of technical solutions.
Sustainable development is integral to their overall strategy and is deeply committed to safety and the development of our local contractors and personnel.
Noble has been contracted to complete the drilling of wells as part of the exploration and development of offshore assets. Noble’s essential objective for the Guyanese Development Plan is to continue to set the strategy to support EEPGL with efforts to develop the local oil and gas industry and contribute to the sustainable development of offshore energy exploration in Guyana.
We started our Guyana operation with a commitment to help grow a Guyanese national workforce who could benefit from the thousands of jobs the energy sector brings. This requires providing the necessary education and skills that oil and gas development needs. The Noble Bob Douglas drillship arrived in Guyana in March of 2018 with eighteen Guyanese personnel on board, and through the hard work of both the individual workers and their mentors, our Guyanese workforce has grown to over 300, and is an integral part of our teams onboard the Noble Bob Douglas, and our other drillships, Noble Tom Madden, Noble Don Taylor, and Noble Sam Croft.
Noble has engaged with local suppliers of goods and services to explain the standards required of the oil and gas industry, and to guide them in establishing their own business frameworks to be able to engage in commerce with not only Noble, but with the numerous other international companies involved in the Guyana projects. We continue to stay engaged by participating in local chambers of commerce to provide feedback and ensure quality delivery of products and services. Through balancing fiscal responsibility in our operation with the necessity to support and enhance the local industrial community.
At SBM Offshore, we believe the oceans are key to solving global energy challenges: whether that’s through traditional sources, natural gas or offshore wind and wave.
Today, our main activity is to design, supply, install, operate and maintain Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels. FPSOs are complex systems that are essential to the offshore energy industries, particularly in remote areas. We are proud to be the trusted partner of choice for global energy providers thanks to our unrivalled technology and operating experience.
As market demand evolves, we are committed to meeting it by finding better, safer and more sustainable ways of unlocking the oceans’ energy potential. We believe we have a leading role to play in supporting energy providers through this transition, helping them to make the most of conventional energy and to meet the world’s future needs.
SBM Offshore has been operating in Guyana for over five years, through its affiliate—Guyana Deepwater Operations Incorporated. The company is a trusted global leader in floating solutions for the energy industry, with over 350 years of cumulative experience, over 50 systems built thus far and more than 6,400 employees worldwide.
The company delivered Guyana’s first FPSO—the Liza Destiny—which began producing oil offshore since December 2019 and the Liza Unity FPSO, which began oil production at the Liza Phase 2 development in February 2022. The third FPSO – Prosperity – is under construction in Singapore. SBM Offshore’s presence in Guyana continues to expand, with approximately 400 persons supporting Guyana’s operations.
The company is committed to pursuing and supporting sustainability, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for developing our local sustainable initiatives, which contributes to our vision of providing safe, sustainable and affordable energy. Current sustainable development initiatives SBM Offshore support locally includes the Hubu Aquaculture Project, Green Farms Initiative, Chrysalis Waste Management Project, Enhancing Livelihoods Youth Literacy Initiative and Waste Paper Recycling Initiative.
Stena Drilling manages a global business, consisting of four ultra-deepwater drillships and two semi-submersible rigs. Stena Drilling lead the way in offshore innovation and Managed Pressure Drilling operations with all our drillships benefitting from fully integrated MPD capability.
Our core business values are focused on care, innovation, and performance. We are committed to supporting local economic growth and development around the world by building an integrated Global workforce. A strong local content strategy is core to our business and sees us work closely with local governments, our clients, and partners in the community, to identify and comply with all local and national legislative requirements.
Hiring locally can help the local community and contributes to the long-term success and continuity of our operations. We provide all personnel with skills that will benefit them throughout their careers.
We focus on building a capable and experienced multi-cultural workforce by educating, developing, and training all personnel to the same standard. It is our belief that Stena Drilling has one of the best and most comprehensive training, competency, and development programs in the business, encompassing industry training, on the job and vessel equipment training, and continual assessment thereafter to ensure compliance and competency. We often work with local vendors who can provide these services, further enhancing and improving economic growth.
Using local vendors for the supply of goods and services is essential to Stena Drilling’s business. Our goal is to establish and maintain a competitive and reliable sustainable supply chain wherever we operate.
TechnipFMC is a leading technology provider to the traditional and new energies industries, delivering fully integrated projects, products and services.
With our proprietary technologies and comprehensive solutions, we are transforming our clients’ project economics, helping them unlock new possibilities to develop energy resources while reducing carbon intensity and supporting their energy transition ambitions.
Each of our approximately 20,000 employees is driven by a commitment to our clients’ success, and a culture of strong execution, purposeful innovation and challenging industry conventions.
TechnipFMC has been active in Guyana since 2016 and continue to invest in our commitment to developing Guyana resources, capabilities, and our supplier base. To date, TechnipFMC has directly employed a total of 101 Guyanese nationals. In our commitment to build a world class Supply Chain across many scopes of work to support our exceptional Customer Service we continue to have Guyanese suppliers SAP registered/Qualified in our system.
TechnipFMC is the supplier of both the Subsea Drilling Systems and Subsea Production Systems for Liza I, Liza II, Payara and YellowTail. TechnipFMC is providing the Wellhead and tree systems plus the associated manifolds, control systems, hydraulic and electrical distribution and offshore installation tooling packages. In addition, TechnipFMC will also be involved with the gas-to-energy project – providing engineering, procurement, construction and installation of subsea risers and pipelines.
