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China’s CNPC looking for new gas sources in Myanmar

(Reuters) A subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country’s largest oil producer, is looking for new sources of natural gas in Myanmar to feed a pipeline between the two nations, the China Daily reported on Jan. 12. CNPC Southeast Asia...

Conservation Int’l urges Guyana to use oil resources to fund ‘Green State Strategy’

Guyana is being urged to use revenue that will be earned from oil production to fund the realization of its ‘Green State Development Strategy’ as part of the diversification of the country’s economic base, in order to avoid having...

Shell Brazil CEO optimistic about Brazil’s E&P future

(Hart Energy) For Royal Dutch Shell, 2017 was a good year in terms of E&P activities in Brazil. Ranking as the second largest oil-producing company in Brazil, after acquiring BG Group’s assets in the country, the British-Dutch major increased...

Stabroek Block: Exploration Highlights

ExxonMobil initiated oil and gas exploration activities in Guyana in 2008, collecting and evaluating 3-D seismic data that led to the company safely drilling its first exploration well in 2015. The 6.6 million acres (26,800 square kilometers) Stabroek Block is located...

Liza Phase 2 could push Guyana total oil production to 340,000 bpd by 2022

US oil major ExxonMobil has confirmed that a process is underway that could see a Liza Phase 2 development getting underway as early as 2022. This combined with Liza Phase 1 production, set to come on stream in 2020,...

CGX Energy CEO quits, Narine to act as Executive Chairman

Canadian-based oil and gas exploration company CGX Energy has accepted the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer. CGX Energy, focused on the exploration of oil in the Guyana-Suriname Basin, said on Wednesday it accepted the resignation of CEO Dewi Jones, effective January 8, 2018. Dewi Jones,...

Tullow picks up 6 new licences offshore Peru; eyes drilling in 2019

Tullow today announced that it has agreed on terms to add six new licences covering 28,000 sq km, offshore Peru, South America, to its portfolio. “The Group has concluded negotiations with Perupetro and agreed to acquire a 100% stake in...

Stones FPSO designed for swift disconnection from approaching storms

(Offshore) The FPSO Turritella in the Gulf of Mexico is in the deepest-water setting of any floating production system to date, at around 2,900 m (9,500 ft). The location and the demanding operating environment – as evidenced by this season’s powerful...

ExxonMobil moving towards potential giant Liza Phase 2 development; could start by 2022

ExxonMobil Guyana said on Thursday it has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental authorization as part of the company’s plans for a potential production concept for Liza Phase 2. “Given we receive all the permits...

Big oil looks on as Italian giant completes ‘mission impossible’

(Bloomberg) The fact even senior managers privately described the plan as “Mission Impossible” showed the scale of the task: Italian energy giant Eni SpA wanted to produce gas from the Zohr field little more than two years after finding it in...

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Guyana to engage U.S. partners on tariffs as gold, oil exports remain exempt

If Guyana has its way in talks with the United States, recently announced tariffs on Guyanese exports would be...