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Whose is bigger? Brazil, Guyana will host world’s largest floating oil production vessels

Oil production vessels definitely have a wow factor. Their sheer size, processing power and capability of operating for decades without pause make them truly impressive facilities. The ‘Egina’ is a beast of a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel...

Saipem bags contract for largest discovery in 20 years off Ivory Coast

Saipem said Tuesday that it got approximately €1 billion added to its order book to aid the Baleine Phase 1 Project, a development of an oil and gas field located at 1,200 metres water depth, off the Ivory Coast. Saipem said...

Oil can “profoundly” transform Guyana’s economy – IMF

With a discovered petroleum resource count of close to 11 billion barrels of oil equivalent, Stabroek Block operator ExxonMobil has churned out big wins for Guyana. Now, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that when this number tips over, Guyana’s...

Capricorn ditches Tullow merger for NewMed Energy

British International Oil Company (IOC) Capricorn Energy announced a proposed merger with NewMed Energy to create a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) energy champion. The deal, which Capricorn said would create one of the largest upstream energy independents listed...

Keppel bags US$2.8 billion deal to build new FPSO for Petrobras

Keppel Shipyard copped a US$2.8 billion deal from Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of a new floating oil platform – P-83. Scheduled for delivery in H1 2027, the P-83 is a repeat order of the...

Guyana will produce over 93 million barrels of oil this year as growth in sector surpasses 100% – IMF

Guyana’s oil sector has been on an upward trajectory since production began in 2019 from ExxonMobil’s Liza Phase 1 development. And now, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees the country’s oil sector gross domestic product (GPD) growing over 100%...

T&T announces plans to review fiscal regime, make investments more favourable to oil companies

Trinidad and Tobago’s National Budget, which was presented on Monday by Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert, contained new measures to help revive the country’s oil and gas sector. An impending major development is a review of T&T’s fiscal regime to...

TotalEnergies is Qatar’s first partner in mega North Field South LNG project

TotalEnergies said it has again been selected by QatarEnergy to partner in a mega liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. The energy major had been chosen as the first partner for the 32 million ton per annum (Mtpa) North Field East (NFE) LNG project earlier...

Dredging of Guyana’s main river port for creation of two-way channel to begin soon, official says

As oil and gas activities ramp up offshore Guyana, so does marine traffic traversing the country’s main channel – the Demerara River – and the government is working to ensure it can facilitate the rapid change. At present, the Demerara...

Time running out for T&T to attract more upstream investment

The Trinidad and Tobago government committed since last year to conduct an in-depth review of the fiscal regime governing its upstream petroleum sector, said Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Thackwray Driver. But...

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Guyana’s Hammerhead development drives 18% increase in MODEC’s 2026 EPCI revenue

Guyana’s Hammerhead development contributed to an 18% increase in MODEC’s engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) revenue during the...