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At current oil price, Yellowtail Project holds GY$19.3 trillion worth of oil

Ahead of its 2022 first quarter earnings call this morning, Hess Corporation disclosed that the Yellowtail Project is expected to develop a gross resource base of approximately 925 million barrels of oil. At current market price for Brent crude, (US$100...

Exxon is 5 for 5 offshore Guyana with success rate now exceeding 90%

ExxonMobil has entered the new year with huge success off the coast of Guyana, delivering five discoveries from five attempts at hitting commercial crude in the block that keeps on giving. The company also increased its recoverable resource estimate...

Woodside targets 231 million barrels offshore Senegal; first oil on track for 2023

Woodside Petroleum said it is on track to deliver first oil in 2023 from the Sangomar field, which Senegal authorities approved in January 2020. The government approved Phase One of this field development, which will target 231 million barrels. “This...

Guyana accessing US$27M IDB loan to boost human capital for managing oil resources

The Government of Guyana will soon be able to utilize a US$27M loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help build up the human capital that is required to manage the nation’s massive oil resources. The financial agency outlined...

TechnipFMC moves all subsea assembly from Trinidad to Guyana with new Houston Base

From wellheads to pipelines, TechnipFMC is one of the leading technology providers in the traditional and new energies industry, delivering fully integrated products and services. TechnipFMC established a presence in Guyana back in 2016 and six years later, on Tuesday,...

Oil Minister says “thriving future for generations ahead” as Exxon announces three new discoveries

With three new discoveries announced by oil major ExxonMobil in Guyana’s prolific Stabroek Block, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat sees a thriving future for generations ahead. Subsequently, after Exxon’s announcement, Bharrat shared that the new discoveries add to “Guyana’s growing legacy”...

Exxon triple discoveries catapult Guyana resource base to almost 11 billion barrels

ExxonMobil has made three new discoveries offshore Guyana and increased its estimate of the recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to nearly 11 billion oil-equivalent barrels. The three discoveries are southeast of the Liza and Payara developments and bring to...

No way Guyana can lose from ‘single most transformational project’ in its history – Bharrat

Guyana’s Gas-to-Energy project is a win-win for the country. In fact, its Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat holds the strong position that the country simply cannot lose when the project comes on stream in 2025. He dubbed it “the...

Norway arrests activists blocking tanker delivering oil to an Exxon terminal

(Reuters) - Norwegian police said they had arrested 20 Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion campaigners who on Monday blocked a tanker from delivering Russian oil to an Exxon Mobil terminal. In a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, activists had fastened...

Pace of Guyana’s oil and gas development ‘unprecedented’ – Routledge

Guyana’s growth trajectory changed dramatically when ExxonMobil and its Stabroek Block partners struck oil back in 2015. Since then, the pace of the South American nation’s transformation and development – its oil and gas resources and its infrastructure –...

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Moonilal appoints new boards for Trinidad’s state energy companies

Trinidad and Tobago's Energy Minister Roodal Moonilal on Monday issued letters of appointment to the new boards of directors...