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The drillship Noble Don Taylor has arrived offshore Guyana to begin a one-year contract for drill campaigns at the Stabroek Block, operated by US oil major ExxonMobil, with co-venturers Hess and China’s CNOOC. The Noble Don Taylor brings the total number...

(Bloomberg) Texas wildcatters, after years eye-rolling at shale skeptics, are now saying global analysts are underestimating just how severe the industry’s slowdown is. What’s ticking folks off these days is how the International Energy Agency in Paris and the Energy...

Trinidad and Tobago's industries regulator is warning that a natural gas shortage is slowly chipping away at the country's industrial base. James Lee, executive director of the regulated industries commission, told Argus on the sidelines of a gas conference that the planned...

  Former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson-Miller, will deliver the keynote address at the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (GCCI) Annual Awards Presentation and Dinner on Thursday, November 28. The event, set to take place at the Guyana Marriott...

Norway’s success as an oil producer has been based largely on the country’s push to diversify the economy and not use oil revenues to underpin all other industries in the country. This approach, if taken by Guyana, will see...

Output from oil fields in Brazil’s subsalt frontier covered by production-sharing agreements will surge over the next decade to 3.9 million b/d by 2031, surpassing the country’s current total output of about 2.9 million b/d, the head of government...

The CASS Business School of the City of London in collaboration with the High Commission of Guyana and the London Business School's Energy Club held a well-attended discussion on Guyana’s oil discovery and its green future on Monday November...

(Petroleum Economist) The final drilling target of the year for Anglo-Irish independent Tullow has become more pivotal following the company’s revelation that crude from its offshore Guyana discoveries is heavier and more sulphurous than expected. Tullow’s share price had been...

Support from National Hardware Guyana and Concepts & Services Company of Trinidad and Tobago has led to the formation of a new oil services company based in Guyana which is set to become the region’s newest oil producer in...

The signing of contracts with ExxonMobil contractors including Saipem and SBM Offshore for works related to the Payara development prior to final government approval is not unusual since such works require lengthy lead times for planning, design and construction. So...