{"id":21393,"date":"2022-03-24T22:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=21393"},"modified":"2022-03-25T06:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:25:39","slug":"one-bid-received-for-exxon-cost-recovery-audit-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/one-bid-received-for-exxon-cost-recovery-audit-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"One bid received for Exxon cost recovery audit validation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guyana<\/p>\n

Only one company has submitted a bid for consultancy services for cost recovery audit validation of the Government of Guyana\u2019s profit oil share and it has tendered at over $340 million for the project.<\/p>\n

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When the tenders for the Ministry of Natural Resources\u2019 project were opened last Tuesday, only Eclisar Financial & Professional Services (EFP) had submitted a tender.<\/span><\/p>\n

That bid was pegged at $340.7 million.<\/p>\n

On the matter of cost recovery auditing from 2017 to 2020, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat had stated during the 2022 Budget debate and in a written response that monies for this project had been appropriated this year and to the tune of some US$250,000 ($52m).<\/p>\n

That sum is nowhere close to the bid submitted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

EFP is located at 169 Charlotte Street, in Georgetown and was established in 2012. It provides accounting, forensic and financial services plus advisory to domestic and foreign clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the years, Eclisar has built an outstanding reputation for client representation in taxation and auditing and is proud to have successfully represented clients to the Guyana Revenue Authority and National Insurance Scheme,\u201d the website further states.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026 at Eclisar, we pride ourselves in providing financial services and solutions for organizations in all industry sectors. We are always forging global partnerships to better serve and enhance our clients\u2019 interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the company\u2019s website, Eclisar\u2019s staff is managed by its founder and Managing Director, Azzar Haniff. He is listed as \u201ca chartered and forensic accountant with over seventeen years\u2019 experience in accounting, auditing, taxation, fraud investigations and financial management. Azzar has worked in Trinidad and Barbados and has a large network of business associates in Trinidad and other Caribbean Territories.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November last year, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that ExxonMobil\u2019s post-2017 expenditure for the Liza-1 and Liza-2 wells would not be audited as government was not able to select a strong local group to undertake it. This statement was at odds with the fact that the government had advertised this year for foreign firms.<\/p>\n

The comments had seen a string of criticisms from the public with many emphasising the need for the sums to be professionally scrutinised. It was compounded by the fact that it was over one year since the audit of the US$460 million by United Kingdom firm IHS Markit. That report is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n

Noted too was that the statutory two-year period for the 2017-2019 auditing had expired and there was a concern that the company might object to its books being audited after the contracted time had elapsed.<\/p>\n

But government has stressed that the auditing of the over US$9 billion sum can still be undertaken and as such there is no need to request an extension from ExxonMobil. Former APNU+AFC minister, David Patterson, had questioned if the Ministry of Natural Resources or any other agency with oversight of the oil & gas sector had approached ExxonMobil for an extension of the deadline for auditing the expenses.<\/p>\n

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The Minister of Natural Resources had offered assurances. \u201cWe have a commitment from Exxon. There is no such [objection], they are not against us doing it [later],\u201d Bharrat had stated.<\/p>\n

ExxonMobil has told this newspaper that it is confident of its bookkeeping matters and transparency of the company. It added that it has never shied away from audit requests and that it submits periodic reports on its spending to a number of government agencies here.<\/p>\n

\u201cExxonMobil Guyana considers audits a normal part of our operations and cooperates with the government so it can fulfill its obligations. We are fully transparent with the Government on our budgets and cost banks for each block and have implemented extensive cost controls across our business in line with our contracts and the laws of the country,\u201d ExxonMobil spokesperson Janelle Persaud had said in response to questions from the Stabroek News.<\/p>\n

\u201cAudits are just one part of a comprehensive framework of controls established by the government. These include setting annual budgets for each block we operate which are reviewed by the Ministry of Natural Resources, and reporting actual spend against these on a monthly basis to the Ministry. We also steward and report costs for each project that is approved and each well that we drill,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The latest update on auditing was given by Bharrat who said that government was in discussions with local auditors so as to have them be a part of the process, in keeping with local content initiatives here.<\/p>\n

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