Celebrating our women in science

SCIENCE

EXXONMOBIL PNG Limited recognises the critical role that woman played in science and celebrated their success and contribution in the oil and gas industry.
Through the US$19 billion PNG LNG project, ExxonMobil PNG and its CO-venture continued to provide employment opportunities, training, and community projects to promote equal access and participation of woman and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEP)
Females make up 19 per cent of the total Papua New Guinean workforce.
These are incredible woman who worked behind the scene in their area of expertise to ensure the success of the PNG LNG project.
Whether it be discovering new plant species, protecting rich biodiversity or ensuring the quality of LNG cargo before its loaded into the tankers.
ExxonMobil PNG Limited is proud of its woman staff breaking barriers and advance in STEP.
Aika Keleb-Moy is one of those incredible woman who worked as a laboratory quality assurance planner at the PNG LNG plant site laboratory. Aila hails from Milne Bay.
“My role in the lab is to ensure that the lab meets ExxonMobil’s quality practice guidelines (QP&G) standard and ensure that the data that the lab produced is accurate, timely and of the highest standard,” she said.

“I wouldn’t have been exposed to the highest standards that ExxonMobil PNG sets for its laboratories. The commitment that ExxonMobil has for quality is remarkable”

Nine females were working at the PNG LNG plant site laboratory out of a team of 16 people. These women play a critical role in ensuring the quality of the LNG that is loaded at the PNG LNG plant terminal meet customer’s requirements before shipment.
“We make sure the LNG and Naphtha cargoes testing runs smoothly by ensuring that the quality control requirements of the test methods are met and that no equipment or the standards used to do calibration and maintenance are out of date,” she said.
ExxonMobil PNG operated modern laboratory facilities with state-of- the- art instrumentation and laboratory information management system (LIMS) to record and report, test data and to track samples.
Aila started her career with ExxonMobil PNG Limited straight after graduation from the University of Technology in Lae.
This year she celebrated a decade working with the company.
Aila said she was truly grateful for the opportunity.
“I wouldn’t have been exposed to the highest standards that ExxonMobil PNG sets for its laboratories. The commitment that ExxonMobil has for quality is remarkable,” she said.
“We ensure that the results were produce are accurate, honest, timely, and of the highest integrity.”
She added that ExxonMobil PNG’s commitment to ensuring that the laboratory environment is safe for its employees to work in is world class as it sets the standards for quality control.
She said her highest career as a quality assurance planner was participating in an external QP&G audit in 2019.
“I participated in the external audit as the first national quality coordinator in a team of three and we had to represent the ExxonMobil PNG laboratory in the external audit. That was something truly remarkable to me,” she said.
She encouraged those young people who want to get into the field of science and work with global corporation such as ExxonMobil is to find their purpose and hold onto it and keep on doing their best every day.
“One thing that will help you achieve your goal is perseverance,’’ she said.
“Always turn up every day, be present and ready.’’