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Guyana success pushes Hess to number 2 spot for 2018 drilling performance

Drilling success in Guyana in 2018 earned Hess the number two spot in the industry for value created from wildcat drilling according to an annual exploration review by Rystad Energy. Only ExxonMobil, co-owner and operator of the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana,...

ExxonMobil to plug additional $4B in Guyana, Permian Basin – Darren Woods

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods says the US oil giant experienced an upside over the course of 2018 and is preparing to invest $4 billion of additional Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) from 2019 to 2025 in Guyana and other areas like...

CGX to begin hazard assessment at Utakwaaka-1

CGX Energy Inc. is set to begin a shallow hazard survey at its Utakwaaka-1 well site offshore Guyana ahead of a drill campaign scheduled to get underway by or before November 2019. Guyana’s Maritime Administration Department said the operation, which...

BHP to drill more wells in Trinidad after gas finds

(Reuters) - BHP Group Ltd has stepped up exploration drilling in deep water off Trinidad and Tobago hunting for gas which could supply the country's Atlantic LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant in the 2020s, a senior executive said. The company...

Rowan jack-up for Repsol drill campaign in Guyana

Rowan Companies plc announced on Wednesday that Repsol Exploracion Guyana, S.A. has signed a contract for the EXL II, a high-specification Super 116E Jack-up rig, for work offshore the South American country. The contract is for one well beginning in...

Guyana among 15 countries on oil spill response training course

Training is underway for oil spill response managers in the wider Caribbean region at a course being held in St Kitts and Nevis during the period March 11-14. Participants from 15 countries, including Guyana, are attending the International Maritime Organisation...

Saipem secures US$220M in new contracts, extensions

Saipem has been awarded new contracts and extensions to existing agreements in onshore drilling worth approximately US$220M in total, the Italy-based company said on Wednesday. The new contracts involve projects to be carried out in Bolivia and Saudi Arabia, while...

Storage tanks explode at Venezuela heavy oil project

Two storage tanks have exploded at the Petro San Felix heavy-crude upgrading project in eastern Venezuela, according to an oil industry source and a legislator, Reuters said in a report on Wednesday. According to the Reuters report, the tanks were...

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...

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‘We will hunt and kill them’: Hegseth announces strikes that killed 14, eight more than last week’s attack

U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced today via his X (formerly Twitter) page, that “at the direction of President...