Oil Search establishes plan to ensure business continuity

OIL Search Ltd has established a multi-disciplinary coronavirus task force to prepare comprehensive plans to ensure business continuity in the event an outbreak occurs in the country.
The company, in a statement, said they had been monitoring the Covid-19 developments since early this year and as a result of these preparations, its business continuity plans were well developed and were currently being implemented.
The company said over the past week, it safely suspended all discretionary activities such as the acquisition of seismic and development drilling and was demobilising non-essential staff from the field.
“All key staff, including expatriates and relief staff, are now in PNG, located either in the field or in Port Moresby, as required,” Oil Search said in a statement.
“As a precautionary measure, business essential personnel have been isolated, to ensure safe and uninterrupted production from the company’s operations in PNG.
“These measures will assist in minimising the risks of spreading Covid-19 and support business continuity for production from Oil Search’s operated assets.”
The company said the operator of the PNG LNG project, ExxonMobil, also advised that they were implementing similar measures, consistent with recommendations from the Government, the global health authorities and ExxonMobil practices to sustain continued safe operations from the PNG LNG project.
“In response to Covid-19, over the past several weeks, we have been making preparations to mitigate the potential impact of the virus on the health and wellbeing of our people and on our business.
“The comprehensive plans developed by the company’s cross functional Covid-19 task force are now being implemented.”