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400 students participate in ExxonMobil supported STEM conference

ExxonMobil Guyana partnered with the Volunteer Youth Corps (VYC) Inc. on Saturday to stage the 7th STEM Conference held at the Ramada Hotel in the country’s capital, Georgetown. The company said this latest collaboration with VYC is part of its...

Indonesia considers allowing for production sharing oil and gas contracts options

(Reuters) - Indonesia is considering letting energy companies stick with the “cost recovery” system for oil and gas production sharing contracts, the energy minister said on Monday, after the government decided to adopt a new scheme in 2017. In 2017,...

Apache to drill deeper at Maka-1 wildcat offshore Suriname

Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) said Monday upon reaching a depth of approximately 6,200 meters at the Maka Central - 1 well offshore Suriname at Block 58, the company elected to conduct various testing activities in two distinct Upper Cretaceous...

US$120 billion in oil revenue is not the same as ‘nothing’ – Trotman

Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says the South American country is set to receive billions of dollars in oil revenue and one of the most important discussions that should be taking place is how that windfall will...

Suriname nearshore drilling project ends with six dry holes

Suriname state oil company Staatsolie has ended its Nearshore Drilling project which got underway in April, after encountering 6 dry holes off the country’s coast. While no commercial oil discovery was made, valuable data has been collected, Staatsolie said,...

Saipem awarded three-quarter billion euros in contracts for offshore wind farms

Saipem has been awarded a contract by the French company EDF Renewables for the construction of the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm offshore Scotland. This is the first turn-key project awarded to Saipem in the offshore wind farm sector....

OilNOW awarded by business chamber in Guyana

Guyanese-owned and operated online platform OilNOW has received its second award in three months in recognition of coverage being provided on the country’s emerging oil and gas industry and related business activities. The most recent award was handed over by...

Oil recovers as China data offers hope for global demand

(Bloomberg) Oil recovered some lost ground in Asian trade on Monday after an upbeat Chinese economic report at the weekend offered grounds for optimism on the global demand outlook. Futures were up 1% in New York, after losing 5.1% on...

Audit and reporting for Guyana’s oil revenue administration

An important mechanism of accountability is the periodic auditing of the oil fund. An oil revenue management law should specify the accounting method or methods the oil fund should follow and require all activity of the oil account to...

‘Job-creation, world-class education and health care’ among campaign promises of Guyana’s main opposition party as oil production set to get underway

With what is being described as the ‘mother of all elections’ on the horizon, the main opposition party in the soon-to-be newest oil producing country in South America – Guyana - has released an excerpt of its manifesto which...

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Keystone Consulting debuts at OTC: set to deliver grounded market intelligence on Guyana, region 

Houston, Texas, United States - Keystone Consulting (Guyana) Inc., a new research, marketing, and business intelligence firm, was officially...