The relaxing of COVID-19 lockdown measures is resulting in more vehicles taking to the roads and this is driving up the demand for lighter, sweeter oil which refiners need to produce gasoline. With a sulfur level of 0.51% and...

Hundreds of Guyanese businesses are benefitting from a wide range of online training courses being offered by the Centre for Local Business Development (CLBD) as COVID-19 restrictions continue to prevent indoor sessions from being conducted. Since its establishment in 2017,...

Global discoveries of conventional resource volumes reached just 4.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in the first half of 2020 with Guyana among just a few countries that recorded success during the period. Rystad Energy says this represents the...

Guyanese-owned Strategic Recruitment Solutions Inc (SRSGY) has taken another step forward in meeting international compliance requirements by Completing TRACE Certified Due Diligence. TRACEcertification is a heavily benchmarked and comprehensive due diligence review, analysis and approval process establishing that an individual or...

Total and its partners have announced the start-up of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) P-70 of the Iara cluster (Block BM-S-11A), located in the deepwater Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil. With a productive capacity of 150,000 barrels...

A Rystad Energy assessment of the temporary tax relief package for the petroleum industry that Norway recently approved reveals that the move will improve exploration and production companies’ short-term liquidity and reduce breakeven prices for future development projects by...

Equinor has awarded two contracts and issued a letter of intent to TechnipFMC for pipelaying and subsea installation for three projects on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The projects in scope are Breidablikk and the Gas Import System for the...

(Reuters) - Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras has kicked off a sale process for its Atum, Curima, Espada and Xareu offshore oilfields, the company said on Friday. In a securities filing, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the company is formally known,...

Since the onset of the COVID-9 pandemic, Hess Corporation’s response has been hinged on three key principles—preserve cash, preserve capability, and preserve the long-term value of its assets. In terms of preserving cash, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO),...

The 120,000 barrels per day Liza Destiny FPSO producing oil at the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana was designed to ensure there is no routine flaring in the daily operations of the vessel. Operating processes during production operations include safely flowing...