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Ground Structures building state-of-the-art facility with lab for offshore investigations

Ground Structures Engineering Consultants (GSEC), a Guyanese firm specializing in geotechnical engineering and environmental services, will soon open the doors to its new state-of-the-art 10,000 sq. building housing offices and a soils and material laboratory. GSEC is in a partnership...

Private sector staging landmark business summit with multi-stakeholder focus

As Guyana’s oil and gas industry promises to emerge as a dominant force in the country’s economy, the business community will next week be looking to highlight opportunities and challenges in several other key sectors in its push to...

Guyana “light crude” will fetch higher price, cost less to refine

When compared to heavy oil, the light crude found in Guyana will fetch a higher price on the world market and cost less to refine. Light crude oil has low density and flows freely at room temperature. It has low...

Guard against economic, governance risks; warns manufacturing body

President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), Shyam Nokta, says every effort must be made to ensure the economic and governance risks associated with oil and gas is mitigated, as the South American country moves closer to...

World needs new offshore oil investments to avoid shortages: Hess

(Reuters) - Higher investments in offshore oil production are critical to avoiding a supply squeeze by 2020, as expanding shale output will not match projected demand increases in the next few years, U.S. oil producer Hess Corp said on...

Tullow gunning for oil this month at Suriname’s Araku prospect

Tullow oil is hoping to strike it big offshore Suriname at the Araku oil prospect on Block 54, set to begin early this month. The UK-based oil and gas exploration company is targeting a Jubilee look-alike play in the continental...

Exxon continues drilling foray offshore Guyana with new campaign at Ranger-1

Following oil discoveries at the Liza, Payara and Snoek reservoirs from 2015 to present, ExxonMobil and its Joint Venture partners Hess and CNOOC Nexen will be looking to repeat these successes with exploratory drilling at the new Ranger-1 well site...

Gulf Publishing Company launches LNG intelligence service

Gulf Publishing Company, a leading media company and provider of market data for the international energy industry, on Sunday the Energy Web Atlas to provide the downstream energy sector with easy access to information about the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry. A...

FSU researchers to study fate of BP Oil spill

(FSU) A team of research institutions led by Florida State University (FSU) has been awarded a $2.8 million grant to expand its understanding of how the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill affected the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico. Eric...

Guyana taxation body boosting systems in preparation for oil & gas

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is working closely with the US Treasury Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) to create a platform that can allow higher systems of transparency and accountability, as the country continues its preparation for the oil...

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Hess reports Q3 gains with Guyana leading production growth

Hess Corporation revealed a strong third quarter driven by expanded production in Guyana’s offshore Stabroek Block. The company reported...