The Guyana Oil and Gas Association (GOGA) believes the greatest benefit from a country’s natural resources lies in the ability to add value, and this must be carefully considered in the case of oil production, set to begin in...
Increasing oil and gas production and exploration from the offshore fields and the rising development of shale drilling regions are expected to drive the demand for the offshore mooring market.
Innovation of new technologies for development of new systems in...
Conditions at the mouth of the Berbice River in Guyana may be best suited to facilitate an onshore supply base at Crab Island, according to an engineer whose company has worked extensively in the area.
Crab Island, located in the...
ExxonMobil Chemical Company announced today the mechanical completion of two new 650,000 tons per year high performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The company expects production to begin during the third quarter of 2017.
Part...
The business community in Guyana continues to weigh-in on the news that setting up a 100,000-bpd oil refinery in the South American country, is not a feasible option. The head of one such group representing the interest of the...
Venezuela; home to a number of oil refineries and the country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world, is now being forced to increase gasoline imports as refineries struggle to remain operational.
Output has dropped at the crisis-hit...
While there continue to be calls for the establishment of a smaller, less-costly oil refinery in Guyana, the expert hired to consider the matter of building a refinery in the country warns this could spell trouble down the road.
Director...
Professor Jorge Manuel Guira of the UK-based University of Reading will be in Guyana on Thursday May 25, to deliver a lecture entitled ‘Paradise Found in Guyana? Meeting the Challenges of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production’.
OilNOW understands the lecture...
Guyanese firm, Ground Structures Engineering Consultants Inc. and Dutch company, Fugro, are forging ahead with a new partnership in the South American country’s emerging oil and gas sector. Already, several Guyanese are receiving specialized training in sea survival and...
A key private sector body in Guyana has asked the minister responsible for natural resources, Raphael Trotman, to provide it with the model used by consultant, Pedro Haas, which led him to conclude that setting up a refinery in...