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Chinese specialists arrive in Venezuela to combat coronavirus

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On Monday morning a HAINAN Airlines flight from Beijing arrived in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to deliver aid and transport several medical specialists to help fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a report on teleSUR. According to reports, the HAINAN...
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Global E&P CAPEX will reach 13-year low as COVID-19, price war persist – Rystad Energy

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Global capital expenditure (CAPEX) for exploration and production firms (E&Ps) is expected to drop by up to $100 billion this year, about 17% versus 2019 levels, under Rystad Energy’s updated base case scenario of $34 per barrel in 2020...
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Guyana can learn from the Venezuelan crisis

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Venezuela provides a window to a dystopian future. The country’s neighbour to the east, Guyana, is developing its first offshore oil and gas finds made in the past five years. There’s a growing number of them; the 16th discovery...
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Baker Hughes reports US drilling rigs drop by 44

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Baker Hughes’ latest Rig Count revealed that as at March 27, 2020 the count of active United States drilling rigs has dropped by 44 to 728 after falling by 20 one week earlier. In addition, the US active rig...
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Conex Oil and Gas acquires Total’s Liberia and Sierra Leone businesses

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Liberia’s Conex Oil and Gas Holdings Limited (Conex) on Wednesday March 25, 2020 signed an agreement with Total to acquire Total Liberia and Total Sierra Leone, which are leaders in the importing and marketing of petroleum products throughout their...
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Tullow utilizing Ebola-tested contingency strategies against COVID-19

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Tullow Oil PLC is using contingency plans developed to avoid the dreaded Ebola outbreak in Africa to craft strategies to guard its employees against the virulent novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The virus has to date infected more than 575,000 persons...
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Responses to oil price volatility for Guyana’s emerging oil economy

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The occurrence of certain events is probable in the precarious economic environment created by Oil Price Volatility (OPV); inflation and unemployment are both likely to increase, while investment, stock market returns, consumer demand, and industrial production are likely to...
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Rosneft hands Venezuelan oil business to Russian state firm

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(AP) — Russia’s Rosneft oil company said Saturday that it’s halting operations in Venezuela and selling its assets there to a company fully owned by the Russian government, a move apparently intended to protect Russia’s largest oil producer from...
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Low quality Guyana oil among list of Tullow’s 2019 disappointments

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Executive Chair of Tullow Oil PLC Dorothy Thompson reported the Board’s disappointment in the company’s operational and financial performance for 2019, saying that in 2020 the British oil and gas operator will work to rebuild the stakeholder trust that...
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They used to be oil tankers. Now they’re hospital ships deployed to help during the coronavirus pandemic

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Two US Navy hospital ships sent to ports in California and New York will help ease the burden of hospitals immersed in treatment of coronavirus patients. According to a CNN report, the USNS Mercy reached Los Angeles on Friday morning,...
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Eight Graduate Engineers complete SBM Offshore Guyana programme, nine join new cohort

Eight young Guyanese engineers have completed SBM Offshore Guyana’s Graduate Engineers’ Programme, marking the end of an intensive 18-month...

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