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Guyana government’s 2024 receipts from oil production exceed US$2 billion

Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) received more than US$2 billion in revenue projected this year and is set to receive several hundred million more by year-end.  The Fund received US$151.4 million in oil sales revenue in October, representing payments for...

Suriname Awareness Symposium for Jan. 2025 as country gears for first offshore oil development

Suriname Awareness Symposium 2025 (SAS2025) aims to build Suriname's future through the development of the energy sector. This event will bring together key stakeholders to discuss and strategize on local economic development, stakeholder collaboration, and economic diversification.  On a rainy...

SBM Offshore expects US$1.9 billion in EBITDA this year, driven by Guyana FPSO sales

SBM Offshore has updated its 2024 guidance for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA)to US$1.9 billion, representing a 46% increase from the previous US$1.3 billion projection.  This significant boost is primarily attributed to the completion of the US$1.23...

Guyana looking to Rubio for strong hand in controversy with Venezuela

With Florida Senator Marco Rubio named as Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, the Guyana government expects strong support from the upcoming United States administration in its border row with Venezuela.  “We’re very pleased also that Senator Rubio will...

Saipem, TechnipFMC hired for subsea work on Block 58 development

Saipem and TechnipFMC said they were hired to undertake subsea work in support of the first oil development offshore Suriname. The Gran Morgu project is being pursued by TotalEnergies, in partnership with APA Corporation. The project will combine TechnipFMC’s subsea...

SBM Offshore, Technip Energies to deliver ‘all-electric drive’ FPSO for Suriname’s first deepwater development

SBM Offshore said it has been awarded, in partnership with Technip Energies, contracts for the Gran Morgu field development project in TotalEnergies’ Block 58. Under these contracts, the duo will construct and install an all-electric drive floating production, storage and...

Guyana inks deal for second powership as holiday season approaches

The Guyana government has inked a contract for a second powership to be deployed in Guyana by UCC Holdings, for the delivery of 75 megawatts (MW) of additional generating capacity. The agreement was signed on November 13 in Georgetown, by...

Touchstone averages 5,211 boe/d production in third quarter

In the third quarter of 2024, Touchstone Exploration achieved an average quarterly production of 5,211 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), 75% of which was natural gas, marking a 54% increase from 3,391 boe/d in the same period...

Halliburton setting up shop in Namibia

Halliburton said it will open new facilities in Namibia, the growing oil frontier in southern Africa. The company said its in-country operations will be supported by facilities at Windhoek, Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, and Lüderitz—a combined footprint of 20,000 m². The...

Guyana oil production hits half-billion-barrel mark

ExxonMobil Guyana announced on November 13, a milestone of 500 million barrels of accumulated crude oil production. The output was derived from three Stabroek Block projects—Liza 1, Liza 2, and Payara—in less than five years. Exxon said the three...

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Guyana may enter long-term oil supply deals if there is market oversupply – VP

Guyana's Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, said the government may enter a long-term oil supply deal if there is oversupply...