Clough’s subsidiary, e2o Asset Services, is currently completing the shutdown scope at Newcrest’s Gold Mine on Lihir Island, 900 kms from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 

e2o, in coordination with Newcrest, prepare, plan, schedule, execute, close out and improve the site’s Electrical and Instrumentation and Grinding and Flotation components for the major planned shutdowns (3-year minimum term). The shutdown execution works involve planned maintenance work, corrective work, and project improvement works.

The site’s major planned shutdowns are completed every March and September, and form part of the site’s larger Smart Shutdown schedule.

Newcrest creates economic value for PNG and local communities including direct revenues from operations, investments in public infrastructure and services, support of local suppliers, and a range of indirect economic benefits. Approximately 4,500 people are employed at Lihir which has a combination of residential and fly-in-fly-out personnel, around 90 per cent of employees are Papua New Guineans.