TRADES NL: Industry Works to Ensure Bay du Nord Project Stays Local

Trades NL is launching a Build Right Here campaign to ensure the mega-work opportunities are afforded to the local trades workforce in Newfoundland and Labrador from the Bay du Nord FPSO project.

The Bay du Nord FPSO will be located 500 km NE of St John’s at water depths of 650 – 1170 meters and recoverable oil has been projected to be over 1 billion barrels. The developer of the project, Equinor, has determined that a floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) will be used to extract the oil

Upramp of work for Equinor’s massive deepwater project is commencing, and the first oil is expected in about five years’ time Construction is expected in 2024 once a benefits agreement is fully in place with the provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador

Local Newfoundland and Labradorians are bound by the Atlantic Accord which governs the workflow of projects to be executed locally with local people. It’s a right, a necessity and an important piece of project success

According to Equinor they, “Strongly support building local capacity and will prioritize goods and services from suppliers within the Province wherever possible

Consistent with the Accord Acts, Equinor will adopt a contracting and procurement strategy that gives first consideration to services provided from within the Province and to goods manufactured in the Province, where those services and goods are competitive in terms of fair market price, quality and delivery.” Equinor’s contracts and procurement office is located in St. John’s, to coordinate and manage the project’s procurement-related activities in the region

Darin King, Director of Trades NL says, “We have the capacity and world-class workforce to Build Right Here in Newfoundland and Labrador. Trades NL is heavily advocating to ensure that our government and Equinor maximize the Bay du Nord opportunity to its full potential.

This project has the potential to create a significant amount of work for the people in the province, however, there are key components of the project that must be constructed in the province for that to happen.

This includes, but is not limited to:

Construction of Process and Utility Modules

Matting of Constructed Modules

Commissioning and Startup

Tow-out of the FPSO, as well as a Community Benefits Agreement

Trades NL has built upon a 30-year with an increasingly experienced, hi highly trained and safe workforce to Bay du Nord Darin King believes tha everything, except the hull can, and built in Newfoundland & Labrador. E website states, “Equinor strongly su building local capacity Equinor exp successful bidders for contracts aw the Bay du Nord project to work tog Equinor and the local labor force in optimize participation from the loca marketplace in the project developm

Darin King explains his concerns for project, “We’ve had projects happen past where the work was done elsew unnecessarily Our goal is to ensure that we garnish the work that we are qualified to execute. We have thirty years of exempl offshore experience in the trades sector these mega-projects are now at a point our expertise and competence are being executed all over the world. Our goal is t ensure that any transfer of technology continues to grow in the region and that use our current expertise and resources ensure Bay du Nord has a world-class sa protocol and workforce.”

GET INVOLVED!

Please engage with your local MHA and government officials – to ensure they ar aware that in order for this project to rea full potential and return profits to communities throughout our province, th must continue to advocate for work to b constructed within our province, by our l workers