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Fugro forced to implement hiring, salary freeze as impact of COVID-19 deepens

Dutch engineering company Fugro said on Monday it is taking appropriate measures during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep its employees, partners and clients safe and healthy while ensuring service delivery. Current market conditions have forced the company to implement...

“We do not see Exxon turning off the taps in Guyana” – Rystad Energy

The fall in oil prices triggered by the Saudi Arabia-Russia price war and the COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in a number of oil and gas companies readjusting their 2020 exploration and production programmes. US oil major ExxonMobil said...

Suriname must begin discussion on coming oil money – Staatsolie CEO

Mr Rudolph Elias, CEO of Suriname state oil company Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V., says with the second significant oil discovery at Block 58 offshore Suriname by Apache Corporation and Total, it is of the utmost importance that a national...

Coronavirus pushes oil towards the abyss

The crude oil market is staring into an abyss. The challenges are physical – dealing with extreme oversupply – and financial, with market participants from wellhead to forecourt under severe duress. Ann-Louise Hittle and Alan Gelder, who, respectively, lead...

Half the world under ‘stay at home’ orders as COVID-19 cases surpass 1 million

(S&P Global) At the conclusion of a difficult week, the world surpassed 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus and the total global death toll neared 60,000. A new wave of infections prompted China and Singapore to reinstate lockdowns over...

OPEC+ poker game on Monday: Russia holds better cards than Saudi Arabia

A month after the last unproductive OPEC+ meeting and with COVID-19 slashing demand amid the ongoing price war, the US has managed to broker a new extraordinary meeting for oil-producing nations. Russia and Saudi Arabia will be back to the...

Brazil’s Petrobras makes new oil discovery at Santos Basin

Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras said Thursday it has identified the presence of oil in the pioneer well of the Uirapuru block, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt. In a press release, the company said that the pioneer well,...

Low O&G prices, COVID-19 will hit an already vulnerable TT hard – Ramnarine

Former Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago Kevin Ramnarine says that the Twin-Island Republic will be hit hard by the fall in oil and natural gas prices which is wreaking havoc in the energy market...

Largest number of bankruptcy filings in modern history in play as US upstream industry braces for impact

Whiting Petroleum this week opened the door of Chapter 11 filings but will not be the only company to cross that threshold. As the US upstream industry is heavily indebted, the current price environment is likely to create the...

Tullow gets approval for $1.9 billion debt capacity

Tullow Oil plc said Friday it has completed the bi-annual redetermination of its Reserves Based Lending (RBL) credit facility with $1.9 billion of debt capacity approved by the lending syndicate. As a result, the Group has c.$700 million liquidity...

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Hess says exploration planned this year for Suriname blocks at Guyana border

Hess Corporation said exploration activities are planned this year for two Suriname blocks in which it holds stakes -...