Over 50,000 employed by LNG project, report says

 THE PNG LNG project has employed over 55,000 workers since the project’s construction phase, according to the project’s second quarter environmental and social report for this year.

The number of employees increased from 21,220 since two years ago. 

The project is providing an on-going demobilisation support to construction workforce, while at the same time, delivering training and transition support to incoming production team.

Project workforce numbers declined this quarter as construction contractors continued to demobilise. 

By end of quarter, total workforce was just over 2250 compared to almost 7800 in previous quarter. Papua New Guineans comprise 58% of current workforce, compared to 44% recorded in first quarter of this year.

Meanwhile, as part of the project’s commitment to training, two purpose-built facilities were established to meet the training needs of construction workers. 

These facilities are the Juni Construction Training Facility in the Upstream area and the Port Moresby construction training facility. 

Earlier in the year, the Juni Construction Training Facility was officially transferred to the Hela provincial government to provide on-going vocational training 

opportunities for Papua New Guineans. 

During the construction phase, this facility was used to train project workers in areas such as carpentry, civil construction, and concreting.