Exploration

UK-based Tullow Oil and its joint venture partners are gunning for a drill campaign at a Suriname wildcat in 2020. The company said this week that is has interests in three blocks in Suriname; Blocks 54, 62 and 47. “Following...

UK-based data analytics and consulting company GlobalData and a Guyanese Economist both say the scope for an upward adjustment in the royalty rate under Guyana’s current model Production Sharing Agreement is limited and warns that increasing this beyond a...

To survive in the lower oil price environment of the past five years, E&Ps and service companies alike have sharpened their pencils and delivered significant cost reductions for the offshore industry. Rystad Energy says the resulting cost savings is...

The sheer magnitude of Guyana’s oil producing potential has been recognised by many international publications and industry experts. With ExxonMobil Guyana expecting to produce over 750,000 barrels of oil per day by 2025, Guyana will soon become one of...

SBM Offshore has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) together with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for a 22.5 years lease and operate of FPSO Mero 2, to be deployed at the Mero field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil, 180...

With no signing bonus and seismic exploration data being made available to companies for free, the Dominican Republic is offering low-risk contract terms in an effort to attract big investment in its nascent oil and gas industry. The licensing round...

When US oil major ExxonMobil first started exploration activities at the Liza field the odds of finding oil at the high-risk Guyana basin was less than 20 percent. The giant discovery in 2015 of 800 million to 1.4 billion...

UK-based Tullow Oil and its joint venture partners have spudded their first well at the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana located just miles away from the multi-billion-barrel Stabroek Block where US oil major ExxonMobil has to date made a record...

Multiple commercial oil discoveries at Guyana’s Stabroek Block have established the country as a key up and coming producer in the region. And now, as exploration activities ramp up at other blocks outside Stabroek, a discovery could push the...

Deepwater and tight oil are two of the great growth themes in the oil and gas industry, but are often considered to be at opposite ends of the development spectrum. Deepwater represents large, expensive and complex long-cycle projects best suited...