Officials from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and the Greater Houston Partnership held discussions this week on the sidelines of the Offshore Technology Conference.
GCCI President, Timothy Tucker, told OilNOW on Tuesday the discussions focused on strengthening...
By Terrence R. Blackman, Ph.D. – OilNOW
ExxonMobil initiated oil and gas exploration activities in Guyana in 2008. The company drilled, safely, its first exploration well, Liza-1, in 2015. The Payara, Snoek, Liza Deep, and Turbot discoveries followed in 2017,...
President of the Guyana Oil & Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC), Manniram Prashad on Tuesday signed two Memorandums of Understanding at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas. GOGEC said the MOUs are underpinned in the spirit of mutual...
A technical session on Guyana’s Liza project drew a capacity audience on Monday at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) being held in Houston, Texas.
Presentations were made by several ExxonMobil representatives covering the company’s exploration history in the Guyana basin,...
Just a little over six years ago, Guyana’s economic prospects were based entirely on its traditional sectors such as gold, diamond, other mineral production, forestry and agriculture. Oil and gas production played no role in the country’s development. Then...
Updated August 15, 2021
Over 100 exploration wells are expected to be drilled in South America outside Brazil over the next 5 years and Norway-based Rystad Energy has said most of the action could be found off the northern shelf...
The deepwater plays in Guyana, Brazil and Mexico will provide significant opportunities for these countries to help meet the oil and gas demand in coming years as supply shortfalls due to energy transition trends take hold.
"Demand for oil will...
Exploration and appraisal drilling offshore Guyana is set to get even busier with more wells now being targeted at the Canje block where two non-commercial prospects have been spudded so far. The Environmental Protection Agency said in a notice...
Members of Guyana's National Assembly on Monday debated and passed the Petroleum (Production and Exploration) Amendment Bill-2021 which will now ensure proper oversight by the government during the acquisition of private lands by a licensee for major oil projects....
Oil and gas exploration activities offshore Guyana take place at significant depths with the Tanager-1 well spudded on the Kaieteur block being the deepest well ever to be drilled so far by ExxonMobil off the South American country’s coast.
Tanager...
