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Baker Hughes announced strong first-quarter results, driven by “record orders and major contract wins. The company released its 2025 quarter report on April 22, revealing that it has secured a significant award from ExxonMobil Guyana. It will supply specialty chemicals...

In 2024, a third of MODEC's total revenue came from its operations in Guyana, as the company gears up to supply a large floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to the Stabroek Block next year. In its annual report,...

Guyana is expected to be one of just two countries in the world to post double-digit economic growth in 2025, according to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) April World Economic Outlook.  The forecast, released under the theme A Critical Juncture...

Trinidad and Tobago and the United States have committed to working together to ensure the Caribbean country’s energy future, a recent statement from the U.S. State Department said.  Trinidad media reported over the weekend that Prime Minister Stuart Young has...

Brazil’s majority state-owned multinational corporation, Petrobras, has confirmed that the Equatorial Margin may hold more than 30 billion barrels of oil, citing recent estimates from Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels (ANP). According to Petrobras, this volume...

Subsea tree unit awards slumped to 32 in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, marking a 65% quarter-over-quarter decline, according to Westwood’s Global Subsea Tracker. The drop reflects ongoing macroeconomic challenges and inflation-driven delays in project approvals and contract...

Heritage Petroleum Company Limited, Trinidad and Tobago’s national oil company, is inviting expressions of interest for a partnership arrangement on its newly awarded Preau Block. The block, located just south of Heritage’s Barrackpore Licence (Core Area C), spans approximately 11,200...

ExxonMobil has awarded a limited notice to proceed to Japanese offshore engineering firm MODEC for the development of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel for its Hammerhead project offshore Guyana, MODEC said on Monday. The contract is MODEC’s...

“Why would we still explore for oil and gas?” René Jonk of ACT GEO asked at the end of his talk for the Geoscience Energy Society of Great Britain on April 8. A question GEOExpro Editor-in-Chief Henk Kombrink examines...

U.S. crude oil production rose 2% in 2024, reaching an annual average of 13.2 million barrels per day (b/d), according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), setting a new high even as export growth slowed. The increase of...