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ExxonMobil has contributed $20.9M to the Volunteer Youth Corps. Inc.’s online after school programme for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education in Guyana. The company says this is in keeping with its commitment to invest in the country’s...

In just two years, the damning effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have affected upstream investments by a whopping US$285 billion. Due to these significant cuts, upstream spending will struggle to recover to pre-pandemic levels. Revealing these details recently was...

Countries across the Latin America and Caribbean region have been increasingly pursuing measures that would enhance the competitiveness of their oil and gas sector and speed up production. Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname and new oil producer Guyana are...

As transition strategies begin to take shape around the world, it is becoming more evident that natural gas has a key role to play in helping countries and organizations achieve ambitious targets. Making this fundamental point recently was Prime...

Despite criticism by some groups in Guyana that the country is moving too quickly with the development of its vast hydrocarbon resources, the government there as well as authorities in other Caribbean territories have recognised that the window to...

Although the first and deepest well ever to be drilled in the Guyana-Suriname Basin on the Kaieteur Block failed to deliver commercial crude, upstream players on the acreage said the prospect yielded significant data. Tanager-1 reached a total depth of 7,633...

Consultancy group Rystad Energy estimates that the five offshore discoveries made so far in Suriname hold cumulative recoverable resources of around 1.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent and anticipates production to come on stream by the end of decade,...

The Liza Unity FPSO, the first oil production vessel to be built by SBM Offshore using its pioneering Fast4Ward® program, will soon depart the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore for Guyana where it will be spread moored at the ExxonMobil-operated...

Guyanese businesses have been playing an increasing role in the offshore exploration and production activities with more services being provided directly from local suppliers now than what previously obtained following the 2015 Liza discovery. This is a direct result of...

A Dedication Ceremony was held on Saturday, June 12, 2021, for the giant Liza Unity FPSO that will be developing around 600 million barrels of oil offshore Guyana as part of the Liza Phase 2 Development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVUSNdOfKk