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ExxonMobil’s campaign to find more hydrocarbons at Guyana’s largest block remains in high gear at the start of 2023 with exploration drilling operations continuing at the Tarpon and Fangtooth well sites. According to a notice from the Maritime Administration Department...

Eni has signed a contract with Wison Heavy Industry for the construction and installation of a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit with a capacity of 2.4 MTPA (million tons per annum).  The FLNG will be deployed offshore the Republic...

Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva has reassumed the Presidency of Brazil, the largest democracy and oil producer in Latin America. With this assumption, Lula delivered an impassioned speech about his plans to tackle inequality, discrimination and threats to Brazil’s...

Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of South America’s up and coming oil producing powerhouse Guyana, is on a visit to Brazil, the continents biggest oil producer. According to a statement from the Office of the President, Mr. Ali left Guyana...

Every new year in the development of Guyana’s oil and gas sector has arguably been bigger than the one before it. With new project start-ups, increasing oil production, and more revenues to the country, 2023 is tipped to continue...

ExxonMobil and Stabroek Block co-venturers, Hess and CNOOC, marked 2022 with a slew of new discoveries. It has been described as the best exploration year in Guyana so far, with a total of nine discoveries announced at Stabroek and...

The Guyana government approved two projects in 2022, that represent major milestones in the small South American nation’s mission to become a developed nation – Yellowtail and Gas-to-Energy. Both projects feature the involvement of oil major ExxonMobil and its...

Come March 17, 2023, Guyana’s High Court Judge, Navindra Singh is expected to hand down his ruling in the challenge to the passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill. Opposition Chief Whip, Christopher Jones and Trade Unionist Norris Witter,...

Unprecedented. That best describes Guyana’s oil and gas industry’s ascent in just seven short years. And S&P Global Platts believes that the country has set a new paradigm for accelerated deepwater development. In its latest report, S&P outlined that Guyana...

Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras launched a tender for the supply of two new floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels for its shared Atapu and Sépia reservoirs. Bids are expected in July next 2023, and Petrobras expects production to start in...