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Liza Phase 2 tops list for South America’s 2019 greenfield investments

South America has always been an important playing field for the oilfield service industry. As Brazil is turning more positive towards the international service players, Guyana is stealing some of the thunder as the country is emerging as an...

Next OPEC headache is Brazil’s burgeoning crude production

(Bloomberg) When the giant P-67 floating oil production vessel lit its flare tower earlier this month, it marked the start of a Brazilian supply boom that’s poised to challenge OPEC’s efforts to balance the global market. The mammoth facility -- long and wide enough...

Taking advantage of opportunities in Guyana’s oil and gas sector

- Hemichand Morgan talks about life at sea When you are the father of four children under 10 years old, being unemployed with no job in sight can stretch your endurance to the limit. Not long ago, Guyanese, Hemichand Morgan, was...

Eco Atlantic contracts Stena Forth for Guyana drill campaign

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (aim:ECO)(EOG), along with its partners in the Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana, Total E&P Activités Pétrolières and Tullow Guyana B.V. (Operator), has contracted a rig, the Stena Forth, a sixth-generation drillship from Stena Carron...

TechnipFMC, DOF Subsea announce delivery of Skandi Olinda and start of Contract with Petrobras

TechnipFMC (NYSE:FTI) (Paris:FTI) (ISIN:GB00BDSFG982) and DOF Subsea (DOF) announce that the Skandi Olinda, a Brazilian-flagged flexible lay and construction vessel owned by the joint venture formed between TechnipFMC (50%) and DOF (50%), has commenced its 8-year charter contract with...

PDVSA denies reports of Gazprombank freezing its accounts

Russian news agency TASS is reporting that Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela) “has denied Sunday reports that the Russian Gazprombank had decided to freeze its accounts.” PDVSA reportedly made the statement on its Twitter account. "PDVSA categorically denies...

Repsol makes significant gas discovery in Indonesia

Indonesia's upstream regulator SKK Migas has announced a significant gas discovery by a Repsol-led consortium at Sakakemang PSC onshore Central Sumatra. Wood Mackenzie's Research Director Andrew Harwood provides the following commentary: "Repsol's Kali Berau Dalam-2 well re-entered after well control problems...

Liza Unity will follow Destiny in Guyana oil bonanza

The Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, the first of its kind produced by SBM Offshore using its Fast4WardTM programme, is expected to closely follow the Liza Destiny which will begin producing oil for Guyana by 2020. The Unity...

Guyana, Brazil pushing FPSO demand through 2025 – Rystad Energy

From 2019 to 2021 Rystad Energy expects 33 FPSOs to be sanctioned as oil and gas activity picks up in the offshore sector.  15 of the FPSOs will require a production capacity above 80,000 barrels/day. This high capacity demand comes...

Venezuela’s collapse holds lessons for neighboring Guyana

Venezuela’s slide from top of the heap to a virtual bit player in the oil market is a slow-motion car crash. Production sank progressively from 2.6 million barrels per day (b/d) a decade ago, when it was third in...

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Kumu’s new small-scale hydropower plant now operational

Guyana commissioned a new 1.5 megawatt (MW) hydropower station in the southeastern community of Kumu on Friday, part of...