The COVID crisis that hit the world in the 1st quarter of 2020 has not spared the PMI project. Yet, very quickly, MFI and INAMET’s teams got together to try and find ways to limit the impact of the health crisis on the progress of the project.

Therefore, an extraordinary steering committee was convened, by videoconference of course, on April 14 and 16 to assess the situation and elaborate an appropriate plan of actions to allow the project to continue moving forward.

It was important to identify the activities that could continue to move on and those that would inevitably suffer from the situation. It was decided that all activities related to manufacturing, purchase of equipment, system development and rehabilitation of the Georiscos building could continue according to the initial planning. It was agreed to carry-out some of the Factory Acceptance Tests without the physical presence of INAMET representatives.

On the other hand, because of the impossibility to travel, site missions in Angola and training sessions, had to be suspended. These activities being on the critical path of the project, INAMET and MFI agreed that their postponement would very likely have an impact on the global implementation schedule of the PMI Project.