The need to craft an oil spill contingency plan is among the top priorities of authorities in Guyana, and the government has already begun to put structures in place to deal with such eventualities when production begins in 2020.
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US Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway, said it is important for the South American country to hope for the best, but plan for the worse as it relates to an oil spill, when production gets underway in 2020.
His comments...
Theophilus Nyamko Ahwireng, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Commission of Ghana will deliver a public lecture in Georgetown, Guyana on Monday, October 23.
The lecture, titled "The National Petroleum Commission, resource management, governance and sustainable development of...
Trinidad and Tobago's former Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs, Kevin Ramnarine, believes that an oil spill which began spreading over the past week in the Twin Island Republic may be the result of a passing ship.
In an invited...
ExxonMobil Chemical Company announced Tuesday that it has commenced production on the first of two new 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
The full project, part of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project in...
Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, will be participating in the New Petroleum Producers Discussion Group’s annual meeting, which is taking place in Paramaribo, Suriname from October 13 to 20, 2017.
Other staff members from the Ministry of Natural Resources...
(ABC) The search for a missing Louisiana worker was suspended Monday evening after he was unaccounted for following an explosion on a large oil rig Sunday night.
The Kenner Police Department said it fielded a flurry of 911 calls at 7:18 p.m....
Guyanese Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes, is urging the Government of Guyana and the Parliamentary Opposition to begin working together for the establishment of a long-term national development plan, failure of which could see the country being adversely affected when oil...
(NBC News) An oil rig exploded on a Louisiana lake Sunday night, injuring seven people, five of them critically, while another person remained unaccounted, authorities said.
The explosion on Lake Pontchartrain was reported at 7:18 p.m. (8:18 p.m. ET) about...
(Financial Times) Crude oil was the standout mover on early Monday trading as conflict between Iraqi and Kurdish forces broke out south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, with energy stocks in Europe and Asia climbing.
The Kurdistan Regional Government...
