GKB looking to create 500 jobs while leasing former Enmore Packaging Plant facility

Mar 14, 2022 News

GKB CEO Faizal Khan addressing Enmore workers who are transitioning from the agriculture industry to the oil and gas sector.

Kaieteur News – The 52 percent owned Guyanese company that is leasing the location, that once housed the Enmore (sugar) Packaging Plant, to conduct oil related business says that it will seek to hire some 500 workers over the next five years to aid in its services toward the oil and gas sector here.
Fulfilling its promise to integrate former sugar workers into the new work environment, the company in a press release to the media said that it has started to prepare local workers to provide support to the company in its oil and gas ventures.
Guysons K+B (GKB) Industries Inc. said that it has started the training needs assessment and administrative process to employ over 40 workers from Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) Enmore Sugar Packaging Facility. The company said that the move is in keeping with the company’s agreement with the government that it would train and hire those individuals to work at the new US$37.5 million Industrial development site.
“The investment will see the creation of a world-class oilfield service and manufacturing facility which will create 500 jobs over the next five years.” GKB said that its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faizal Khan, along with the company’s human resources, community support and administrative teams, visited the plant and met with the workers to register their details and understand the roles they played previously.
The GKB team also presented to the workers the company’s plans, it was stated.
“We have agreed to take on the entire Enmore facility team, which guaranteed jobs in the transition from sugar to oilfield. Given that this is a different industry, the current staff will require training,” the company’s CEO said. He added that the transitioning staff will be trained by GKB with trainers from America coming to Guyana regularly.

HR Team Conducting Interviews with Enmore workers.

“The GKB training is going to last a minimum of 90 days and includes health and safety as well as Oilfield Machine Shop Training.” The CEO said that the company was happy to meet and interact with the staff as they looked forward to working with them.
The company’s CEO posited too that the training the workers will receive is necessary to ensure that they can effectively and efficiently transition into the new sector which has very strict health, safety and security standards and requires more technical skills than they may have been used to in the sugar industry.
“The current staff would have to become used to strict international health and safety standards, which would include proper use of oilfield equipment and safety gear as well as handling of materials, and there would be regular drug and alcohol screenings. The training will take some time, it will take money, but we are committed to making it work and have already started investing in their oilfield training program.”
Thus far, 12 females and 30 males have registered for the transition into the new company which is a joint venture between Guysons Engineering and U.S owned K + B Industries Inc.
GKB is a joint venture made up of Guysons Engineering Ltd, a Guyanese company operating in Guyana for 30 years, and K+B Industries Inc., its American partner established in 1972.
Guysons Engineering was founded in 1992, Guysons Oil and Gas in 2017, both becoming ISO 9001-2015 certified via the Centre for Local Business Development (CLBD), Exxon Mobil backed scheme geared to support local Guyanese companies in the oilfield since 2018.
GKB said it has already set up a licenced Machine Shop in West Ruimveldt that is already operational to offer threading and accessory support to the industry. GKB is now expanding its operations by establishing additional services, including manufacturing at the Enmore 55-Acre site.
GKB said that the Enmore project will be set up to manufacture and repair oilfield tubular goods such as completion accessories, drill pipe and deliver turn-key manufacturing services. These are needed by international oil companies to develop Guyana’s oilfield. GKB will also offer premium threading of tubular goods, accessory services, and turn-key manufacturing solutions in the country.

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