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Noble announces contract extension for Tom Madden drillship as activities offshore Guyana ramp up

Noble Corporation announced Thursday that the ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Tom Madden has been awarded approximately 6.5 years of additional contract term under the Commercial Enabling Agreement (CEA) with ExxonMobil for work offshore Guyana.  The Noble Tom Madden was previously contracted until Mid-February 2024 and the additional...

Guyana’s energy costs to be halved in five years – Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the South American country of Guyana Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips says the Government is targeting a 50 percent reduction in the cost of energy in five years as it remains committed to providing stable and reliable...

Former Guyana Presidential Advisor on oil told to retract ‘false and defamatory’ claims or face lawsuit

Lawyers representing Guyana’s former Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, have issued a letter to former Presidential Advisor on Petroleum, Dr. Jan Mangal, requesting that he immediately retracts ‘false and defamatory’ statements on the award of...

For the first time in 100 years no rigs are searching for oil in Venezuela

Wells that once tapped the world’s largest crude reserves are abandoned or left to flare toxic gases that cast an orange glow over depressed oil towns in Venezuela, the New York Times said in a recent report. Refineries that once...

Close to US$100 million in shore base investments stalled in recent years – Vickram Bharrat

Improving the ease of doing business in the new oil producing country of Guyana is on the radar of the new government as it looks to expand investments in oil and gas as well as other sectors of the...

Brazil’s Supreme Court maintains Petrobras E&P divestment rules

(S&P Global) Brazil's Supreme Court maintained 2018 regulations that allowed state-led oil company Petrobras to sell exploration and production assets, in a majority decision handed down Oct. 2. This decision gave the company its second consecutive court victory in support...

Drillship company that discovered Liza well could soon file for bankruptcy

The world’s largest owner of deep-water oil rigs, Transocean, could soon be forced to file for bankruptcy after measures it took to stave off this very possibility, seem to be backfiring.   While on contract with ExxonMobil, Transocean drill ship,...

Chrysaor set to become North Sea’s largest oil and gas producer

(Bloomberg) --Premier Oil Plc will be acquired by Chrysaor Holdings Ltd. in a reverse takeover, creating the largest listed independent oil and gas producer in the UK North Sea. The deal marks the end of the road for one of...

US$200 million in revenue from 1 FPSO by year end, 2 more vessels on the way

New oil producer Guyana has started to receive revenue from the sale of its offshore oil resources and government officials say these sums, which are set to increase exponentially in the coming years, will play a vital role in...

ExxonMobil says it remains committed to producing national resource with local workforce

US oil major ExxonMobil said it remains committed to working with local companies in Guyana to help build their capacity so that they can better serve the growing needs of the country’s emerging oil and gas industry. The company began...

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Nigeria’s Petroleum Commission confirms ExxonMobil’s US$1.5B investment in the country’s deepwater oil sector

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has confirmed that ExxonMobil will invest $1.5 billion in Nigeria’s deepwater oil...