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US company aiming to set up tubular fabrication plant in Guyana

Dril-Quip Inc. and TRINPET Guyana Inc. have entered into a License and Services Agreement that includes the construction of a state-of-the-art tubular fabrication, maintenance and storage facility in Georgetown, Guyana. OilNOW understands the project is scheduled to commence this year with...

Producers may need to kill their old loss-making FPSO’s in this downturn – Rystad Energy tells us why…

The swift oil price crash caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will reduce the combined free cash flow of FPSO fields, which have produced above three quarters of their original resources at just $2.20 per barrel this year. This is...

T&T is not the best example for Guyana to follow – Caribbean Economist

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the oil industry should help Guyana, South America’s newest oil producer, to understand a most valuable lesson — avoid heavy dependence on oil alone and diversify the economy at all costs. This...

Achieving carbon emission goals still possible with oil extraction – API Chief Economist

Since the discovery of large volumes of oil offshore Guyana, and now becoming a producer, the ability to balance this with the country’s low carbon agenda has long engaged the attention of environmentalists, some of whom believe the two...

Hess charters 3 supertankers to store oil production

(Bloomberg) -- Hess Corp. is chartering a trio of supertankers to hold more than half of its North Dakota crude production as rapidly filling storage forces some drillers to curtail output. The U.S. oil explorer said it has enlisted three...

Apache spuds 3rd Suriname well as search for more crude intensifies

Apache Corporation and Total S.A have spudded their third well offshore the South American country of Suriname. The two companies each hold 50% interest in Block 58 where they have made 2 discoveries to date. In the second half of...

Full-blown crisis in Trinidad & Tobago’s petrochemical sector

There is now a full-blown crisis in Trinidad and Tobagio’s petrochemical sector, with four plants shut down in four months and word that more could be taken out of operation as the sector reels under low commodity prices and...

Struggling oil market finally stabilized but recovery will take up to 3 months – JP Morgan

Global oil demand remains at historic lows as inventory vastly outpaces storage, but JPMorgan analysts think the worst of the commodity-market carnage is over, according to a report from Markets Insider. The coronavirus pandemic and the ignition of a price...

Chevron, Exxon curtail production as US shut-ins set to double

US production of 616,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) will be shut during May and 655,000 bpd during June as a result of the supply-demand imbalance that the Covid-19 pandemic has created, according to a Rystad Energy analysis...

Hess reports US$2.4 billion loss – Liza field helps boost production

Hess Corporation reported Thursday a net loss of $2,433 million, or $8.00 per common share, in the first quarter of 2020 even as oil production increased due in part to output from the Liza Phase 1 Development offshore Guyana. “Our priorities...

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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...