Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate-based Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd (PPG­PL) has been iden­ti­fied as the first-ranked firm for the op­er­a­tions and main­te­nance (O&M) of the Guyana’s gas-to-en­er­gy (GTE) Phase 1 nat­ur­al gas liq­uids plant, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued by Guyana’s Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

It said that PPG­PL and its lo­cal part­ner, Guy­Gas Inc. had been se­lect­ed fol­low­ing a “com­pet­i­tive pub­lic pro­cure­ment and eval­u­a­tion process” and that “Cab­i­net has giv­en its no-ob­jec­tion to the com­mence­ment of ne­go­ti­a­tions with the firms, with the ob­jec­tive of agree­ing to an O&M arrange­ment for the NGL op­er­a­tions”.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter said five pro­pos­als were re­ceived and as­sessed by an eval­u­a­tion com­mit­tee against ad­min­is­tra­tive, tech­ni­cal, and fi­nan­cial cri­te­ria.

“The pro­pos­al led by PPG­PL, with Guy­Gas Inc. as lo­cal part­ner, ranked first over­all, achiev­ing the lead­ing tech­ni­cal as­sess­ment to­geth­er with the most ad­van­ta­geous cost-ben­e­fit com­mer­cial of­fer.”

The state­ment said that PPG­PL, a re­gion­al nat­ur­al gas liq­uids op­er­a­tor with es­tab­lished ex­pe­ri­ence, will serve as the lead O&M op­er­a­tor, while Guy­Gas Inc par­tic­i­pates as the lo­cal part­ner, sup­port­ing lo­cal con­tent and the trans­fer of skills and ca­pac­i­ty to Guyanese work­ers.

The nat­ur­al gas liq­uids plant forms part of the in­te­grat­ed gas-to-en­er­gy fa­cil­i­ty near George­town, which brings as­so­ci­at­ed gas ashore from the Stabroek Block to pro­duce clean­er, low­er-cost en­er­gy for Guyana, along­side the re­cov­ery of propane, bu­tane, and pen­tanes-plus for do­mes­tic and ex­port mar­kets.

The state­ment said that en­gag­ing an ex­pe­ri­enced op­er­a­tor is in­tend­ed to en­sure the plant is run safe­ly, re­li­ably, and ef­fi­cient­ly from start-up, which is tar­get­ed for the first quar­ter of 2027.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter al­so con­firmed that the Ger­man pub­licly-trad­ed en­er­gy cor­po­ra­tion, Siemens En­er­gy, has been se­lect­ed as the O&M op­er­a­tor for the 300-megawatt com­bined-cy­cle pow­er plant and the bal­ance of plant (BOP) and aux­il­iary fa­cil­i­ties.

It said Siemens En­er­gy will hold over­all re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for co­or­di­nat­ing op­er­a­tions and main­te­nance across the in­te­grat­ed fa­cil­i­ty, with the NGL Plant op­er­a­tions in­te­grat­ing in­to that frame­work.

“A cen­tral ob­jec­tive of the en­gage­ment is the de­vel­op­ment of Guyanese per­son­nel. The arrange­ment is struc­tured to max­i­mize Guyanese em­ploy­ment at the fa­cil­i­ty and to pro­vide for a de­lib­er­ate tran­si­tion through which the max­i­mum num­ber of Guyanese will pro­gres­sive­ly op­er­ate and main­tain the plant over time, sup­port­ed by struc­tured train­ing, men­tor­ship, and the trans­fer of skills from the ex­pe­ri­enced op­er­a­tor to the lo­cal work­force.”

The state­ment said that pri­or to sign­ing, the arrange­ment will be sub­ject to fur­ther tech­ni­cal and le­gal due dili­gence re­views, in­clud­ing by the Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs and the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Cham­bers, to con­firm that the com­mer­cial terms, bench­marks, and arrange­ments are rea­son­able and con­sis­tent with best prac­tice and with com­pa­ra­ble arrange­ments in the sec­tor.

“The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter here­by clar­i­fies that this O&M en­gage­ment re­lates on­ly to the op­er­a­tions and main­te­nance of the Phase 1 Nat­ur­al Gas Liq­uids Plant. It does not in­clude the sup­ply and bot­tling of LPG, the sale and mar­ket­ing of re­main­ing NGLs, or the de­vel­op­ment of oth­er NGL stor­age and of­fload­ing fa­cil­i­ties, which are be­ing ad­vanced through sep­a­rate process­es.” (CMC)