As Guyana prepares for first oil in 2020 from the Liza Phase 1 Development, and multiple additional projects on the horizon, with an estimated ramp up to 750,000 bpd by 2025, its western neighbor Venezuela, could see production drop...
A review of Guyana’s 1986 Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act is underway as the country moves to modify and modernize the document which is the basis for a number of Petroleum Agreements it has signed with oil companies exploring offshore.
This is according...
Head of Guyana’s Department of Energy (DoE), Dr. Mark Bynoe, says that renegotiation of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between US oil major ExxonMobil and the South American country is not currently being discussed and reiterated that such a course...
Government preferences should take into account wider factors than those considered by private investors. This is because governments are concerned with the linkages between petroleum production and the rest of the economy. Also, governments are or should be responsible...
(Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell widened its lead over Exxon Mobil as king of cash among the world’s top oil and gas companies last year but its U.S. rival could catch up with its investment drive in new production.
The...
The Guyana International Petroleum Exhibition (GIPEX), originally scheduled to be held in March 2019, has been postponed to the 3rd quarter of the year.
The inaugural event, held from February 7 to 9, 2018, at the Guyana Marriott Hotel, was...
(AFP) French oil and gas firm Total has evacuated its staff from Venezuela where its accounts have been blocked due to US sanctions, the company's chief executive said Thursday.
"The accounts are blocked thanks to US decisions," CEO Patrick Pouyanne...
Total Petroleum is reporting that it has made a significant gas condensate discovery on the Brulpadda prospects, located on Block 11B/12B in the Outeniqua Basin, 175 kilometers off the southern coast of South Africa.
In a release on Thursday, Total...
Twelve discoveries and more than 5 billion barrels of oil later, US oil major ExxonMobil’s story in Guyana is still being written and analysts believe that more oil lay in the chapters ahead.
Fresh off of its 11th and 12th...
Just a few days before US oil major ExxonMobil announced its 11th and 12th discoveries offshore Guyana, Chairman and CEO Darren Woods made an appearance on a quarterly earnings call where he expressed full confidence in the advancement of the...