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QatarEnergy signs agreement to continue development of Al-Karkara and A-Structures oil fields

QatarEnergy said it signed an agreement with Japan’s Qatar Petroleum Development Company (QPD) for the continued development and production of the Al-Karkara and A-Structures oil fields in the territorial waters of the State of Qatar. The five-year agreement commences on December 23, 2022, succeeding the...

SBM Offshore Graduate Engineers: A beacon of inspiration to young Guyanese

Paula Ceres and Tanisha Selby were among a group of seven Guyanese graduate engineers who gained hands-on training by SBM Offshore on the Prosperity floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Now, the young women aim to inspire young girls...

Halliburton to construct Sperry Drilling Lab at Guyana base

Halliburton has invited Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for design and construction services for Sperry Drilling services at its Eccles, East Bank Demerara base. The oilfield services provider says Sperry Drilling delivers superior performance to reduce time to first oil, enhance...

Norwegian company confirms ‘largest discovery on the shelf’ for 2022

Norway-based Vår Energi ASA has confirmed a discovery of gas in the Vår Energi operated 7122/9-1 T2 (Lupa) well in the Goliat area, Barents Sea. The company said on Friday that preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery are...

Guyana has raked in over US$1.1 billion in oil revenue so far this year

As of November 30, Guyana received US$1.17 billion from oil sales and royalties so far this year, according to reports from the Central Bank. The sale of 10 lifts in the period, representing Guyana’s share of profit oil, returned US$1.015...

Egyptian firm among three vying to review upcoming Stabroek Block FDP

Stratoil, an Egypt-based oilfield services company was among three that entered bids to evaluate the field development plan (FDP) for ExxonMobil’s fifth Stabroek Block project – Uaru. Bayphase Ltd. and De Godhyer & Mac Naughton were the other two. Bayphase had...

Petrobras hits first oil at Itapu field offshore Rio

Brazil’s Petrobras has started production on its newest vessel – the P-71 at the Itapu field, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area. Petrobras said that the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, docked 200 kilometres off the coast...

Guyana Appeals Court rejects another challenge to Hess, CNOOC Liza permit

The Guyana Court of Appeal has ruled that Hess and CNOOC, the non-operating partners in the Stabroek Block, do not need separate environmental permits for the Liza Phase One project. The court on Wednesday found that the licence obtained by...

Guyana, Suriname bid rounds to fuel new competitive oil market – S&P Global

S&P Global believes bid rounds in Guyana and Suriname will attract further investments that are needed to drive the development of a competitive global oil environment. Given the trail of economic damage left by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine...

Early investments by Exxon pushing development of local capacity in Guyana – Routledge

President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge, believes that early capacity building investments are paying dividends as seen in the growth of local content numbers in the local oil and gas industry. The company said on Wednesday that more than...

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How subsea tiebacks support oil production in Guyana’s Stabroek Block

Subsea tiebacks are playing a key role in the development and expansion of offshore oil production in Guyana’s Stabroek...