DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO.: 2192
DATE OF PUBLICATION:06 November 2009
2192. Mr M H Hoosen (ID) to ask the Minister of Public Enterprises:
(1) Whether any persons with skills have been imported to work on the new
multipurpose pipeline commissioned by Transnet; if so, (a) who are they,
(b) what is their total number and (c) what are their job descriptions;
(2) whether any efforts have been made to recruit local labour to work in
this project; if not, why not; if so, what is the total number employed?
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REPLY
(1)Yes, there are skilled expats working on the construction of the New
Multi Products Pipeline (âNMPPâ), which is still under construction.
(a) The expats are largely employed by the lead company in the Joint
Venture, Spiecapag from France. The skills of fast cross-country pipelining
were not available in South Africa. The expatriates are mainly from France,
England, Ireland, Peru, Spain and Italy.
(b) The total number of skilled expatriates working on the construction of
the NMPP is 114.
(c) The skilled expats are mainly involved with the field joint coating and
the trenchless crossings where there are insufficient local skills with
the specific expert capabilities.
The different expat skills required are for project management, planning,
construction method supervision, pipe bending, auger boring, Â horizontal
directional drilling, alignment design, welding, major river crossings ,
field joint coating , and hydro-testing.
(2)Every effort is being made to recruit local people on the NMPP project.
There are 1441 local employees working on the NMPP project.