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Guyana gets thumbs-up from CDB for setting up fund to manage oil revenue

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is applauding Guyana’s efforts to establish a Natural Resources Fund as the South American country prepares for first oil in 2020. Speaking recently at the Bank’s annual news conference in Bridgetown, Barbados, Director of Economics,...

O&G on agenda as Lord Provost of Aberdeen set to visit Guyana

Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Councilor Barney Crocket, is scheduled to visit Georgetown, Guyana this Friday (March 15). The visit is a follow-up to the Aberdeen Guyanese trade mission in November, last year. This was disclosed recently by British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg...

Venezuela blackout halts most oil exports, hits crude upgrading

(Reuters) - Venezuelan state-run oil firm PDVSA has been unable to resume crude exports at its primary port since last week’s blackout, according to people familiar with the matter, indicating that the country’s massive power outage is crippling the...

Challenges to an extractives-led growth agenda for Guyana

In the exploitation of many depletable resources, two separate investment activities can be distinguished that must take place if production is to continue in an orderly fashion: exploration and development. It is well accepted in economic theory that land...

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund to scrap oil and gas stocks

(CNBC) Norway's trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund plans to dump oil and gas companies from its benchmark index, the finance ministry announced on Friday. The move, initiated by Norges Bank which manages the fund, is designed to make the Norwegian government's...

Liza Unity hull builder launches offshore engineering arm

Chinese state-owned Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS), the company contracted by SBM Offshore to build the Fast4WardTM hull for the Liza Unity FPSO, has officially launched its offshore engineering arm, Waigaoqiao Qingdong Offshore Engineering Company, located at Qidong ship industrial park, Jiangsu. Seatrade Maritime News reports...

Cost of producing Norway’s oil and gas is rising again: Petoro

(Reuters) - Petroleum production costs on the Norwegian continental shelf rose in 2018 after falling for three consecutive years, state-owned oil firm Petoro said on Thursday. Cost cuts were high on oil firms’ agenda following a sharp fall in crude...

Apache eyeing large prospects offshore Suriname; mid-year drill campaign targeted

Houston-based Apache Corporation is set to spud its first well offshore Suriname by mid-year in Block 58 which sits adjacent to sections of the prolific Stabroek Block where ExxonMobil has found more than 5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Apache...

AmCham President calls for diversification of Guyana economy to avert oil curse

President of the American Chamber of Commerce Guyana Inc. (AmCham) Zulfikar Ally is calling for secure investments of oil revenues and economic diversification in Guyana in order to guard against the pitfalls experienced by some oil-producing nations. He was delivering...

ExxonMobil increases Guyana resource estimate to 5.5 billion barrels

In wake of the two recent discoveries announced in February 2019 by US oil major ExxonMobil, bringing the total finds offshore Guyana to 12, the company has since increased its gross recoverable resource estimate to greater than 5.5 billion...

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Hess gives back Suriname oil block at Guyana border

U.S. oil company Hess has relinquished Block 59 offshore Suriname, a deepwater area located near the maritime border with...