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Guyana much closer to selecting firm for 2D, 3D seismic survey of offshore blocks

After receiving seven applications and completing a significant portion of the evaluation process, Director of the Energy Department, Dr. Mark Bynoe has disclosed that Guyana is just a few steps away from declaring the company that will be conducting...

Equatorial Guinea grants two year extensions on oil & gas exploration

(Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea has granted oil and gas companies two-year extensions on their exploration programmes, a statement from the hydrocarbons minister said. The move is an effort to keep investments flowing into the nation’s energy industry amid a historic...

Production at Liza Phase 1 expected to hit 120,000 barrels per day by June – Dr. Bynoe

Oil production from the Liza Phase 1 Development is expected to reach its full capacity of 120,000 barrels per day by early June according to the Director of the Department of Energy in Guyana, Dr. Mark Bynoe. He told reporters...

Guyana should collaborate with industry stakeholders to consider oil storage alternatives – API’s Chief Economist

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to batter oil prices along with global demand, major exploration and production companies are growing concerned about storage space for all the oil that is not being consumed. It therefore means that along with making...

Saipem bags 280-million-euro contract for Baltic Pipe Project

Italian-based oilfield services company Saipem has been awarded a contract by GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. for the transportation and installation of a natural gas pipeline between Denmark and Poland in the Baltic Sea. The contract, signed by its controlled subsidiary in U.K. Saipem...

Oil demand is beginning a slow and fragile recovery worldwide

(Bloomberg) --Few have a better watchtower over oil demand than Joe Gorder, chief executive officer of major U.S. refiner Valero Energy Corp. But this week Gorder didn’t even need his business insight to know that fuel consumption was starting...

Finding oil is really hard, making money even harder

(Journal of Petroleum Technology) As ExxonMobil announced discovery after discovery offshore Guyana, it sounded easy. Beginning with the Liza-1 discovery well, the giant oil company announced 16 successful exploration wells. There were four or five successful wells per year from...

ExxonMobil sees future demand for oil and gas increasing by 20% – Darren Woods

As the global economy tightens under severe pressure brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for oil has plummeted to an all-time low creating a supply glut that has seen prices plummet as the world runs out of storage...

Oil producers scramble to find ‘creative’ storage options after historic price crash

An unprecedented collapse in oil demand has forced some producers to come up with “creative” measures in order to find places to store their crude, with one energy analyst describing the situation as like a “very elaborate game of...

Oil production offshore Guyana continues but project delays triggered by COVID-19 unavoidable

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Darren Woods told investors Friday that Guyana remains a key part of the oil major’s long-term growth plans. Although faced with the drop in oil prices and challenges resulting from...

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Berbice gas development pipeline could cost US$2B, ‘not a small investment’ – says ExxonMobil Guyana President

The pipeline to support Guyana’s gas development in East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six) could cost about US$2 billion or more....