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Exxon insures eight-well Stabroek Block drill campaign

ExxonMobil has insured its eight-well Stabroek Block exploration campaign for the period February 2024 to February 2025, in conjunction with its Stabroek Block partners, Hess and CNOOC. The contract of insurance, published in Guyana’s Official Gazette, sets a limit of...

US$550 million withdrawn from Guyana’s oil fund for the year

Guyana’s Ministry of Finance announced a withdrawal of US$300 million (approximately GY$63 billion) from the country’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) in a May 20 release. Added to the US$250 million (approx. GY$52 million) withdrawn in March, withdrawals for the year...

Guyana’s oil fund worth almost half of country’s annual budget

Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) closed April 2024 with a market value of US$2.634 billion (GY$549 billion), nearly equivalent to half of the country’s US$5.496 billion (GY$1.146 trillion) national budget this year.  Annual revenues to the government from oil production...

Exxon targeting two appraisal wells at gas field off Guyana coast

ExxonMobil Guyana is forging ahead with its Stabroek Block drilling program with two appraisal wells being targeted at the Haimara gas field, discovered five years ago. This is according to a document published in Guyana’s Official Gazette. The program includes the...

Saipem gets US$850 million deal for subsea work off Angola coast 

Saipem has been awarded a new offshore contract by Azule Energy Angola S.p.A., subsidiary of Azule Energy Holdings Limited, an incorporated joint venture between Eni and bp.  The award concerns the development of the Ndungu field as part of Agogo...

Marlim revitalization will add 860 million oil-equivalent barrels to Petrobras’ accumulated production

Petrobras estimates that the revitalization project of the Marlim field in the Campos Basin will produce an additional cumulative volume of 860 million barrels of oil equivalent.  Mariana Cavassin, Executive Manager of Production Development Projects at Petrobras, told participants at...

WoodMac estimates 4.6 billion barrels discovered offshore Suriname 

Consultancy Group, Wood Mackenzie puts Suriname’s oil resource count at more than 2.4 billion barrels and its natural gas resources at 12.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf).  Based on WoodMac’s numbers, assuming one trillion cubic feet of gas equals 176 million...

SBM Offshore ‘pre-selected as preferred bidder’ for TotalEnergies’ Suriname FPSO deal – Upstream sources

Upstream has reported that SBM Offshore could take the upper hand in competition with MODEC to build and deliver Suriname’s first floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, as it was “pre-selected as the preferred bidder.” Fabio Palmigiani, the publication’s...

Suriname’s Roystonea, Fusaea discoveries could support 100,000 b/d development – WoodMac 

Petronas’ Roystonea-1 and Fusaea-1 discoveries in Block 52 offshore Suriname are estimated to hold recoverable resources approaching 400 million barrels, according to new numbers released by UK-based consultancy group Wood Mackenzie.  “This could be enough to support an FPSO ...

Touchstone sees 20% decline in oil, natural gas sales last quarter

Touchstone Exploration, a Trinidad-focused energy company, announced its financial outcomes for the first quarter of 2024, which note a 20% decrease in sales from oil and natural gas compared to the last quarter of 2023. In the latest quarterly financial...

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Guyana fabricators support Hammerhead FPSO with 100 ton steel output

A hundred metric tons of steel for ExxonMobil’s Hammerhead floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has been fabricated...