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New report points to over 2.4-billion-barrel oil potential in Jamaica

The unprecedented oil exploration success in Guyana is raising hopes for countries throughout the region and this is seeing a renewed emphasis being placed on the search for black gold. An independent evaluation of Prospective Resources offshore Jamaica prepared by Gaffney...

Staatsolie celebrates 40 years as Suriname braces for deepwater bonanza

Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V., Suriname’s state oil company, is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in a year that has seen almost 70 years of oil exploration culminating with four major deepwater oil discoveries and the opening of the offshore potential...

Recruitment firm looking to establish oil and gas training institute in Guyana

Recruitment firm El Dorado Offshore (EDO) is looking to establish a training institute in Guyana as part of efforts to enhance the capacity and skills of those in the South American country looking to tap into opportunities in the...

Oil rises from the ashes, tops $50 first time since March

(Bloomberg) Brent crude topped $50 a barrel last week for the first time since March, a milestone for an oil market that’s been grinding its way back out of a deep slump for months. Things aren’t back to normal yet,...

Kosmos Energy completes farm down of Suriname, other exploration assets to Shell

Kosmos Energy said Friday it has closed the previously announced transaction with B.V. Dordtsche Petroleum Maatschappij, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (LSE: RDSA), to farm down interests in Suriname, Sao Tome & Principe and Namibia for approximately $95 million, plus future contingent payments of...

ExxonMobil prepping for drill-stem test at Redtail-1 offshore Guyana

A drill-stem test operation is set to get underway at the Redtail-1 well site located 103 nautical miles off the coast of Guyana at the Stabroek block. Redtail-1 is ExxonMobil’s 18 discovery on the block, announced in September. The well...

ExxonMobil hoping to replicate Guyana success as 1st Suriname discovery extends position in region

Covering an area 1.2 million acres (4,749 square kilometers), Block 52 is located approximately 75 miles offshore north of Suriname’s capital city, Paramaribo, and represents the first discovery ever made by U.S. oil major ExxonMobil, offshore the South American...

Brent oil predicted to rise above US$55 by end of 2021

Oil and gas demand growth is expected to be exceptional next year as the coronavirus vaccine takes hold and OPEC+ looks to constrain supply. In fact, U.K. based consultancy group Wood Mackenzie believes that by the end of 2021,...

Brazil removes 32 high potential offshore blocks from 17th bid round

(S&P Global Platts) Brazil's National Energy Policy Council, or CNPE, dealt a sharp blow to the country's offshore exploration and production program by removing 32 high potential but environmentally sensitive offshore blocks from the upcoming 17th bid round during...

Venezuela claims to have thwarted plot to blow up refinery

(Reuters) -Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said on Friday that authorities had disrupted a plan to attack the country’s 146,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) El Palito refinery and had arrested two suspects in the plot. El Aissami alleged, without providing evidence, that...

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WoodMac estimates 4.6 billion barrels discovered offshore Suriname 

 Consultancy Group, Wood Mackenzie puts Suriname’s oil resource count at more than 2.4 billion barrels and its natural gas...