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Exploration acreage totalling almost 4 times the size of Stabroek Block up for grabs

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Oil and gas companies currently have assets for sale around the world with recoverable reserves of more than 5 billion barrels of liquids and 7.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of natural gas, Rystad Energy estimates.  While some...
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Tullow says 57 workers test positive for COVID-19 on Ghana support vessel

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(Reuters) - Tullow Oil said in a statement on Friday that 57 workers tested positive for COVID-19 onboard a support vessel at its production facilities offshore Ghana. One other worker tested positive on another storage and production vessel. Production was unaffected,...
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Why is Exxon finding oil faster in Guyana than companies anywhere else in the world?

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Several high impact discoveries which have been made offshore Guyana by US oil major ExxonMobil are a direct result of the company’s research and development of new technologies which have provided geoscientists with unparalleled insights into subsurface geologic structures...
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U.S. grants royalty relief to hard-hit oil and gas drillers

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(Reuters) The Trump administration has granted royalty relief to several drilling companies producing oil and gas on federal lands in recent weeks, according to a government database, as the industry seeks help weathering low energy prices. The move shows drillers...
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Factbox: Oil and gas industry delays repairs amid virus lockdown

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(Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted maintenance at oil and gas projects and refineries from Russia’s Far East to the coast of Canada, storing up problems for an industry already reeling from slumping prices, analysts say. Below is a...
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NOCs slashing exploration budgets by over 25% this year

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National oil companies (NOCs) globally are estimated to cut exploration budgets by over a quarter on average in 2020, says Wood Mackenzie. The analysis is based on announcements and tracking well plans of 11 top spending NOC explorers, including three...
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Stabroek Block: Discovery Highlights

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ExxonMobil initiated oil and gas exploration activities in Guyana in 2008, collecting and evaluating 3-D seismic data that led to the company safely drilling its first exploration well in 2015. The 6.6 million acres (26,800 square kilometers) Stabroek Block is located...
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ExxonMobil spent over US$35 million on Guyanese suppliers in Q1 2020

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ExxonMobil Guyana has spent over US$35 million or approximately 7.1 billion Guyana dollars on more than 500 local suppliers in the first quarter of this year. The company said local suppliers remain important to the success of its operations...
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Guyana in ‘Golden Triangle’ of mega oil reserves

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Guyana falls within the Golden Triangle of mega oil reserves along with countries such as Brazil, Venezuela and Nigeria, and producers in the US Gulf of Mexico. Deepwater drilling used to be prohibitively expensive, but high oil prices in 2007...
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Deepwater action remains in play offshore Guyana

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Guyana topped the oil discovery charts again in 2019 with the Liza field coming onstream in December and another billion barrels added in the ExxonMobil operated Stabroek licence with some more gas also. The resource estimate for Stabroek was again...
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