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Three of Guyana's four offshore buyers want a Guyanese partner
Stena will only take certified firms. SBM asks for proof of partnership. MODEC deals direct, and holds back 20% of every payment to a foreign firm.
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We find the certified Guyanese firms that fit your work, check each one five ways and sound them out, so you get up to three partners who have agreed to talk, inside ten working days.
notices in 18 months that suit a specialist from abroad, out of 314 posted by Guyana's oil buyers. How we counted
Guyanese firms hold a current local content certificate. The public register lists them with no search by sector.
days from posting to close on the notices we timed. One request for information closed the day it was posted.
Every certificate holder in your category, checked for a current certificate, a real trace of work, a real address and a named person, no front signs, and no tie to a rival. Offshore fire safety, measured on 2 November 2026.
Where the notices sit, each in its own format
Certificate pages to open one by one
Certified fire-safety firms with the signs of a front
Every introduction comes with a briefing pack: a one-screen overview, then seven sections built from the notices, the register and our checks, so the first call is a working call. These are the pages of our sample, as a client sees them.
The verdict, then the notice count, the buyers that need a partner, the firms checked and the partners ready to introduce, each marked as read from the source or as our own judgement. Below them: who we introduce, why now, the main risk and the first call.
Pick your category, the buyers you want, the rule you can meet and the kind of partner you need. The count of partners we can introduce updates from every certified company on the register. No account until you want an introduction.
Every notice from the oil buyers (MODEC, SBM, Stena, Halliburton, ExxonMobil, Oceaneering, the shore base) and every tender the government board opens (power, water, plant, medical, IT), sorted by the work asked for. Browse all 19 categories
One missed notice can mean a year of work going to someone else. Three introductions cost less than a flight to Georgetown, and you do not have to get on it.
The counts for your category and a go or no-go: is the demand there, and are the partners open to a foreign firm.
Up to three Guyanese partners who have agreed to talk to you, the briefing pack behind each one, and a 45-minute call before your first.
Also: a site visit to a partner's premises by our people in Guyana (£150 to £250) · a company-registry search by a Guyanese attorney, quoted and paid to the attorney · a second category at 60%. We take no fee from any Guyanese partner.
Stena will only take certified firms. SBM asks for proof of partnership. MODEC deals direct, and holds back 20% of every payment to a foreign firm.
The Local Content Secretariat is setting up a unit against fronts. Three of seven certified fire-safety firms show the signs. What we check instead.
314 notices read. 91 suit a specialist from abroad, about five a month. Who posts them, how long they stay open, and the 20 kinds of work that come back.
About five notices a month suit a specialist from abroad, and three of four buyers want a Guyanese partner on the bid. Most foreign firms never get the introduction.