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ExxonMobil to plug additional $4B in Guyana, Permian Basin – Darren Woods

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods says the US oil giant experienced an upside over the course of 2018 and is preparing to invest $4 billion of additional Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) from 2019 to 2025 in Guyana and other areas like...

BHP to drill more wells in Trinidad after gas finds

(Reuters) - BHP Group Ltd has stepped up exploration drilling in deep water off Trinidad and Tobago hunting for gas which could supply the country's Atlantic LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant in the 2020s, a senior executive said. The company...

Rowan jack-up for Repsol drill campaign in Guyana

Rowan Companies plc announced on Wednesday that Repsol Exploracion Guyana, S.A. has signed a contract for the EXL II, a high-specification Super 116E Jack-up rig, for work offshore the South American country. The contract is for one well beginning in...

Guyana among 15 countries on oil spill response training course

Training is underway for oil spill response managers in the wider Caribbean region at a course being held in St Kitts and Nevis during the period March 11-14. Participants from 15 countries, including Guyana, are attending the International Maritime Organisation...

Saipem secures US$220M in new contracts, extensions

Saipem has been awarded new contracts and extensions to existing agreements in onshore drilling worth approximately US$220M in total, the Italy-based company said on Wednesday. The new contracts involve projects to be carried out in Bolivia and Saudi Arabia, while...

Storage tanks explode at Venezuela heavy oil project

Two storage tanks have exploded at the Petro San Felix heavy-crude upgrading project in eastern Venezuela, according to an oil industry source and a legislator, Reuters said in a report on Wednesday. According to the Reuters report, the tanks were...

Guyana gets thumbs-up from CDB for setting up fund to manage oil revenue

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is applauding Guyana’s efforts to establish a Natural Resources Fund as the South American country prepares for first oil in 2020. Speaking recently at the Bank’s annual news conference in Bridgetown, Barbados, Director of Economics,...

At least one dead in Bristow helicopter Gulf of Mexico crash

Offshore Energy Today is reporting that a Bristow operated Bell 407 helicopter crashed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday March 10, 2019. According to the report, one person was killed and another missing from the crash. The helicopter reportedly...

O&G on agenda as Lord Provost of Aberdeen set to visit Guyana

Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Councilor Barney Crocket, is scheduled to visit Georgetown, Guyana this Friday (March 15). The visit is a follow-up to the Aberdeen Guyanese trade mission in November, last year. This was disclosed recently by British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg...

Venezuela blackout halts most oil exports, hits crude upgrading

(Reuters) - Venezuelan state-run oil firm PDVSA has been unable to resume crude exports at its primary port since last week’s blackout, according to people familiar with the matter, indicating that the country’s massive power outage is crippling the...

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Guyana oil production could edge closer to one million barrels per day by year-end

ExxonMobil Guyana expects production from the Stabroek Block to climb sharply before the end of 2025, driven by the...