EC to prepare businesses for opportunities in LNG

By SHEILA LASIBORI
PORT Moresby-based Enterprise Centre (EC) has been contracted to prepare PNG businesses for business opportunities in the PNG liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. The EC within the PNG Institute of Banking and Business Management (PNGIBBM) at the ToRobert business training centre at Konedobu is under a five-year contract with project operator Esso Highlands Ltd to prepare the vying business organisations to meet global business standards.And EC will not be awarding contracts for the PNG LNG project but assist businesses prepare themselves for opportunities in the project, PNGIBBM executive director Ray Clark said.The contract agreement was signed between the parties on Jan 19 this year, Mr Clark said.“Our job is to prepare businesses in the best way we can. We do not decide on the selection of businesses.“We facilitate communication between domestic businesses, suppliers, contractors and subcontractors.“In effect, we are a country notice board,” Mr Clark said, after several questions on EC’s business database it created recently to assist business orgnisations that needed its help to meet business requirements.He said EC was maintaining a PNG Supplier Database.Mr Clark also said to date, there was no business development centre in the country to assist businesses to be viable to reach greater heights in their operations.