ExxonMobil PNG (EMPNG) maintains a firm commitment to national content, with Papua New Guinea (PNG) citizens representing the majority of PNG LNG’s workforce. EMPNG stated that by the end of 2024, 90 % or 3,155 workers were from Papua New Guinea. “Of these, Papua New Guinea women accounted for 19% and represented 96% of all women working at the PNG LNG facilities. During the year, a national content milestone was achieved with the PNG LNG Central Control Room fully operated by skilled Papua New Guinean employees. Career development and training opportunities are delivered to workers through physical classes and online. EMPNG and its contractors provided training opportunities to 10,500 participants during 2024 over the equivalent of 254,600 hours through 2,120 courses. Since the start of production, the equivalent of more than 1.3million hours of training has been delivered to approximately 136,000 course participants. Three (3) Papua New Guinean women and eight Papua New Guinean men became the 10th intake of Operations and Maintenance trainees to begin training at the Kumul Petroleum Academy in 2024. Six of these trainees are completing the mechanical discipline, while the remaining five are studying the operations discipline,” EMPNG said. EMPNG stated that in October, 17 trainees from the ninth intake began working as Junior Technicians at EMPNG worksites. “Of the 248 Operations and Maintenance training program graduates currently employed by EMPNG, 58% are based at the LNG Plant, and 35% at the Hides Gas Conditioning Plant (HGCP). The other 7% are working at either the ExxonMobil Haus or in roles outside of their operations and maintenance discipline. As well as its own workforce, EMPNG invests in the development of Papua New Guinea businesses. During 2024, 11 landowner companies (Lancos) and 248 non Lanco Papua New Guinea businesses were engaged for production-related work scopes. In country spend with Papua New Guinea businesses was almost PGK1.4 billion (USD355million) in 2024 compared to PGK883 million (USD221 million) during 2023,” EMPNG said.