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More project approvals will give Guyanese companies confidence to invest, build capacity – Henson

ExxonMobil Guyana Country Manager Rod Henson says the next decade will be transformational for businesses in the South American country and with the approval of more projects offshore, these local companies will become more confident to invest and take...

Guyana ratifies conventions to protect against oil spills – Greenidge

Guyana’s ratification of several international conventions has been approved by Cabinet. These are aimed at, among other things, strengthening the country’s legal framework for the emerging Oil and Gas industry. This was announced by the country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Carl...

ExxonMobil says efforts to develop local capabilities will continue

ExxonMobil Guyana says it will continue to play a major role in the development of local content in the South American country as first oil approaches. The company reiterated this at a time when multiple potential developments are expected...

Oil revenue can radically transform tourism in Guyana – stakeholders say

Tourism Stakeholders in Guyana believe that revenues from oil production could potentially advance the tourism sector, making the South American country one of the most talked about destinations in the world. This was the highlight of a Tourism, Oil and...

No guarantee other oil companies in the Guyana Basin will strike it big like Exxon – Wood Mack

The Guyana-Suriname Basin is a vast expanse of deep to ultra-deep water with multiple play types where, despite ExxonMobil’s unprecedented success, exploration is still a high-risk venture. But Exxon’s 9 discoveries, which to date, amounts to more than 4...

Call for halt to oil production is ‘self-promoting stunt in pursuit of ulterior motive’ – former minister

Debate on a myriad of issues continues in Guyana as the country gears up to become a major oil producer in the region. A former government official is describing as ‘disturbing’, a recent call for the Guyana government to...

Guyana’s oil fortune rapidly increasing

‘Unprecedented’ is the one word that sums up the remarkable string of oil discoveries which US supermajor ExxonMobil has been making off the Guyana coast since 2015. The company’s success rate for finding crude in an area five and...

TechnipFMC records highest order intake since merger

TechnipFMC, the subsea contractor for the Liza Phase 1 development project in Guyana, recorded its third consecutive quarter of order growth in Q2 2018 as well as the highest order intake to date since the merger that saw FMC...

ExxonMobil to implement wide-ranging measures in the event of oil spill in Guyana

ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has outlined a number of measures the company will take in the event of an oil spill from its Liza Phase 1 development. The company’s Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) was...

High production and prices will help ExxonMobil recover CAPEX quickly; Guyana revenue to spike

High oil production and price in the early years of the Liza Phase 1 development will help ExxonMobil recover its Capital Expenditure rapidly, after which Guyana can expect a spike in revenue from its share of oil. So says Trinidad...

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Q1 withdrawal from Guyana’s oil fund up 60% from last year’s

The Guyana government ramped up withdrawals from the country’s oil fund in the first quarter of 2025, taking out...