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Two years on: Exxon business centre on a mission to make access to training easier

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The Centre for Local Business Development (CLBD), which was established back in July 2017 to help build the capacity of Guyanese businesses to better position themselves for the oil and gas industry, is on a mission to make training...
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Caracas threatens to seize Chevron oil assets

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Venezuela is threatening to nationalize Chevron's oil assets if Washington declines to extend a sanctions waiver that expires on 27 July, reports independent media organization, Argus. The waiver issued as a general license by the US Treasury Department on 28 January allowed...
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Discoveries up 35% – Guyana oil strikes propelling uptick

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Global discoveries of conventional oil and gas continue to show promising growth, with new finds totaling 6.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in the first half of 2019, according to the mid-year assessment of upstream data by Rystad...
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No signing bonus, free seismic data for companies in Dominican Republic’s first ever licensing round

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With no signing bonus and seismic exploration data being made available to companies for free, the Dominican Republic is offering low-risk contract terms in an effort to attract big investment in its nascent oil and gas industry. The licensing round...
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Oil Workers Evacuate GOM Rigs as Storm Strengthens

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(Bloomberg) -- Oil and natural gas producers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico began evacuating workers and shutting in output as a storm gathers strength off the coast of Florida. The system sitting 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Apalachicola,...
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More than 15 drill targets identified at Orinduik

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More than 15 drill targets have been identified at the Orinduik block offshore Guyana and co-venturers Tullow, Total and Eco Atlantic are fully funded to drill at least 8, having just a few days ago spudded the first of...
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Mexico moratorium on oil auctions giving rival Brazil an edge

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(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s moratorium on auctioning off its oil riches to foreign producers is giving a leg up to nearby rivals Brazil and Guyana. Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has halted new bid rounds, and state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos has...
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2016 Stabroek contract revisions followed dry hole at Skipjack

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When US oil major ExxonMobil first started exploration activities at the Liza field the odds of finding oil at the high-risk Guyana basin was less than 20 percent. The giant discovery in 2015 of 800 million to 1.4 billion...
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Risk and reward: less than 9 months to first oil

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With roughly less than nine months to go until first oil, there is great anticipation of the positive impact that oil revenues would potentially have on Guyana’s economic development. The 13 discoveries made by ExxonMobil thus far do not only...
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Tullow spuds Guyana wildcat; results expected in August

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UK-based Tullow Oil and its joint venture partners have spudded their first well at the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana located just miles away from the multi-billion-barrel Stabroek Block where US oil major ExxonMobil has to date made a record...
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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...

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