Hides Gas Development gets award for providing employment

The Hides Gas Development Company Ltd energy services has been awarded the PNG LNG project’s best national content contribution of the Year award.
The award was given last month to recognise the company’s efforts in providing employment, business opportunities and workforce development.
ExxonMobil PNG Ltd’s national content manager Sisa Kini said: “We are proud of HGDC Energy Services’ achievement and success. Continued growth in the capacity and capability of local companies is central not only to ExxonMobilPNG’s success but also the national economic development.”
Since 2009, the energy services had made workforce development a core business priority by initiating a variety of programmes:

• An apprentice programme for mechanical fitters. Three apprentices are currently attached with the PNG LNG’s Hides Gas conditioning plant maintenance workshop.
  The programme is endorsed by the National Apprenticeship and Trade Testing Board;
• A Women in Workforce programme is focused on developing technical capabilities and increasing roles and responsibilities for female staff.
  It includes career path planning and confidence-building initiatives such as public speaking courses and involvement in the Toastmasters public speaking club; and,
• A mentoring programme that helps junior staff to develop their roles in various areas, including safety, engineering, financial, projects and human resources.

Ninety-nine per cent of their workforce comprises Papua New Guineans with 70 per cent being from Hela.
HGDC Energy Services chairman Libe Parindali said the award recognised the team’s efforts to deliver high standards in support of the PNG LNG project.
“We are proud of our work to invest in and develop local talent,” he said.
“This enables them to compete and work anywhere in the world.”