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Stena Carron exits ‘deepest Guyana well’ for new drill campaign

The drillship Stena Carron is set to depart the Tanager-1 well site in the Kaieteur block and will take up a new assignment at the Redtail area, back in the adjacent Stabroek block, for an exercise that is set...

Negotiating an oil agreement for new economies such as Guyana

The mere mention of a natural resource discovery, especially of oil and increasingly of gas, ignites personal and national dreams of riches and hopes of prosperous times, fuelled more than ever by recent dramatic changes in oil prices. Many emerging...

Liza-1 well can produce up to 50 million standard cubic feet of gas per day

Guyana is poised to significantly reduce its reliance on imported fossil fuel to meet its energy needs through the utilisation of natural gas from the offshore Liza field at the Stabroek block. There has been broad-based consensus on the...

Guyana and Suriname joining Brazil as South America’s hottest deepwater plays

Offshore exploration and production activities in South America have long been dominated by Brazil with its vast offshore pre-salt developments. State oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) alone accounted for nearly 88% of the continent’s deepwater OPEX in the...

China oil giants considering buyout of Exxon’s stake in Iraq oil field

(Bloomberg) --China’s oil giants China National Petroleum Corp. and CNOOC Ltd. are considering acquiring Exxon Mobil Corp.’s remaining stake in an oil field in Iraq, which could fetch at least $500 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The...

It will take several wells to define Kaieteur Block opportunity – Hess

Speaking just days before the results from the Tanager-1 prospect was announced, John Hess, CEO of Hess Corporation, a 15% stakeholder in the Kaieteur Block, said it will take several wells for the co-venturers to define the opportunity in...

Head of UAE investment group in Guyana for talks

Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Juma Al Maktoum of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and an eight-member delegation arrived in Guyana on Thursday for a three-day official state visit during which support for the South American country’s emerging oil and gas...

Payara subsea award is the largest since 2014

Payara, ExxonMobil’s 3rd development at the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, has made way for the award of the largest subsea contract in the oil and gas industry since 2014. This comes in a year which one industry analyst describes as...

Fabrication work to begin on giant Prosperity FPSO

Fabrication work is set to begin on the giant Fast4Ward® MPF hull for ExxonMobil’s Payara Development offshore Guyana that will see the Prosperity FPSO pushing total oil production in the South American country to more than 500,000 bpd by...

Significant data gathered from Tanager well, no clarity yet on quality of oil – Ratio Guyana

Large amounts of geological and geophysical data were gathered during the drilling of the Tanager-1 well at the Kaieteur Block offshore Guyana and these findings are expected over the next few months. Ratio Guyana, a 25% stakeholder in the block,...

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Ali names 25-member cabinet; Vickram Bharrat back at oil ministry

President Irfaan Ali of Guyana unveiled 25 ministerial Cabinet appointees on Saturday evening, as the government embarks on its...