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ExxonMobil’s newly installed Country Manager in Guyana, Rod Henson, will be looking to continue the stretch of good fortune seen by the company over the last 2 years, offshore the South American country. Exxon made the biggest oil discovery...

Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL), Trendsetter Engineering and Halliburton today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for integrated subsea well-capping response solutions. With the MOU, the companies will create a strategic alliance for oil and...

Developing technical skills among Guyanese for jobs in the oil and gas sector is being treated as a top priority by the Guyana Oil and Gas Association (GOGA). The entity is actively engaging a number of external partners which...

Chinese jack-up fabrication specialist China Merchant Heavy Industry (CMHI) and French offshore engineering giant TechnipFMC have started talks on forming a joint venture to focus on engineering, procurement and construction work for offshore modules. The two companies recently met in...

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract extension for the ultra-deepwater drillship Maersk Viking, by oil major Exxon Mobil. The estimated value of the contract extension is $22.5 million, with a duration of 150 days. Maersk Viking has been operating...

Dutch company, Fugro, says it is willing to participate in efforts to educate Guyanese on offshore exploration and production operations. Fugro is already providing specialized training to a number of persons employed at Ground Structures Engineering Consultants Inc.; a Guyanese...

Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary BG E&P Brasil Ltda. (Shell) and consortium partners in Lula South, announce Friday that deepwater production has started at the FPSO P-66, which is located in the Brazilian pre-salt of the Santos...

As Guyanese continue to ask questions about how best they can ensure revenues collected from oil production is not misused, a visiting UK professor reminded over a hundred persons gathered at a forum last week, that they “have the...

(Reuters)Venezuela has arrested the manager of the Petropiar heavy crude upgrader, owned by state oil company PDVSA and US major Chevron, for alleged "irregularities" in contracts awarded in the oil-rich Orinoco Belt. Francisco Velasquez was detained on 13 May and...

Regardless of the market price for oil, revenues from production will always be significant. According to an analyst in the industry, the going price per barrel therefore has little direct impact on the extent of corruption. But a weak regulatory...