President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Shyam Nokta believes that now is the time that Guyana must make the most of the opportunities to strengthen the South American country’s traditional economic sectors given not only the...
Guyana’s Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud said the new oil producing nation must use some of the revenue from its vast hydrocarbon resources to bolster other export-oriented sectors of the economy.
The South American emerging oil giant has already benefited from...
Additional challenges with the gas handling system on the Liza Destiny FPSO has resulted in ExxonMobil taking a decision to limit oil production in order to curb flaring. Despite the challenges, the company says it is continuing to safely...
The country with the largest oil reserves in the world could
soon be producing none of it. Venezuela—one of the world’s earliest and (at one
time) largest oil producers, as well as a founding member of OPEC—could soon be
producing close to...
US multinational investment bank and financial services company Morgan Stanley says its modelling of Suriname’s Block 58 shows that it contains a potential 6.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent resources which can be developed across seven phases with first...
Hit by the second industry downturn in five years, global awards for floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels will likely be limited to a single unit in 2020, Rystad Energy believes, as exploration and production firms slash budgets...
The oil discoveries made offshore Guyana, 16 of which are located at the prolific ExxonMobil-operated Stabroek Block, are not under any significant risk from Venezuela, despite a border controversy with Guyana that have seen aggressive actions by the Venezuelan...
The International Energy Agency said in its latest monthly report that global oil output in 2020 will continue to exceed demand but will rebound in 2021 as the oil market rebalances, providing OPEC+ cuts ease and a handful of...
The reduction of greenhouse gases is one of the greatest challenges facing operators and service companies in the oil industry. But the task is certainly not an insurmountable one for Dutch floater specialist, SBM Offshore. Over the past few...