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O&G pushing transportation demand: Cyril Taxi moves from 1 to 133 drivers

The spin-off benefits from oil and gas are growing in the South American country of Guyana where a taxi service which has been in operation for over a decade started providing transportation services to the oil and gas industry...

CGX Energy expected to drill well by November

Canadian-based oil and gas company CGX Energy is expected to drill an exploration well offshore Guyana by November of this year after deferring its 2019 target for spudding a well at the Corentyne Block. CGX is operator at the...

Chevron pulls oil workers from Iraq

(CNN) Chevron has evacuated all of its American oil workers from Iraq following last week's US airstrike in Baghdad. The company said in a statement Monday that as a "precautionary measure" its expatriate employees and contractors have left the...

Guyana enters 2020 as new oil producer with a total of 18 discoveries

The South American country of Guyana has entered the new decade as an oil producer with a total of 18 discoveries made since 2015. There also remains massive potential for more discoveries from ongoing and planned exploration campaigns by...

Finding oil near prolific Stabroek block is positive sign – analysts

Three discoveries have been made outside the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, the most recent being Carapa-1 where Repsol and its partners encountered just around 4 metres of net oil pay. While this, together with the heavy oil results from...

Oil hits $70 as Mideast crisis deepens fear of supply disruption

(Bloomberg) Oil extended its dramatic surge above $70 a barrel as the fallout between the U.S. and Iran escalated after the assassination of one of the Islamic Republic’s most powerful generals. Futures jumped by another 3% on Monday as the...

Motley Fool asks: where will ExxonMobil be in 5 Years?

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is the second-largest publicly traded oil and gas company behind the recent IPO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. After a rough last five years of revamping its portfolio in an effort to adjust to the new...

Western oil majors face potential attacks in Iraq following US airstrike

Despite reports of oil field staff withdrawals in Iraq over concern of retaliation from Iranian backed militants, all upstream operations and exports in Iraq are continuing normally, according to local sources, but western oil majors still remain a potential...

Mexico hedges oil output for 2020 as risks grow

(Reuters) - Mexico has completed its annual oil hedging program for 2020 at $49 a barrel, the finance ministry said on Friday at a time when the finances of both the sovereign and state oil company Pemex are particularly...

Eco Atlantic sees ‘significant thick oil pay opportunities’ at Orinduik following Carapa results

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. believes the recently announced Carapa-1 oil find by Tullow Oil in the Kanuku Block offshore Guyana, though lower than previously estimated, is still an important discovery as it confirms the prospectivity of the...

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Singh: Invest where you can prove capability, not where others appear to be winning

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance Dr. Ashni Singh has urged Guyanese entrepreneurs...