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Venezuela’s collapse holds lessons for neighboring Guyana

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Venezuela’s slide from top of the heap to a virtual bit player in the oil market is a slow-motion car crash. Production sank progressively from 2.6 million barrels per day (b/d) a decade ago, when it was third in...
Exploration

Major oil find excites southern Caribbean

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(Amsterdam News) U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil announced two major oil finds offshore Guyana in the past week, and the discovery has raised the hopes for similar massive oil discoveries in two of its neighbors that incidentally already produce oil and...
Exploration

Guyana moving towards open bidding for oil blocks, multi-client seismic survey

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Guyana could soon have its first open bid round for oil blocks by Q1 2020 the Director of the Department of Energy (DoE), Dr. Mark Bynoe, told reporters on Monday. An overhaul of the 1986 Petroleum Exploration and Production Act,...
Exploration

2019 high impact exploration starts with a bang: Guyana leads with 2

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In the first few weeks of 2019 there have been four high impact discoveries of conventional oil and gas, finding 25% of the high impact volume discovered globally in the whole of 2018, says Westwood Global Energy Group. One of...
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Guyana moving ahead with new model PSA

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A review of Guyana’s 1986 Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act is underway as the country moves to modify and modernize the document which is the basis for a number of Petroleum Agreements it has signed with oil companies exploring offshore. This is according...
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Commercial choices and developmental linkages for Guyana’s promising oil economy

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Government preferences should take into account wider factors than those considered by private investors. This is because governments are concerned with the linkages between petroleum production and the rest of the economy. Also, governments are or should be responsible...
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Shell leads cash race but Exxon catching up

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(Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell widened its lead over Exxon Mobil as king of cash among the world’s top oil and gas companies last year but its U.S. rival could catch up with its investment drive in new production. The...
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GIPEX postponed: organizers eyeing Q3 2019

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The Guyana International Petroleum Exhibition (GIPEX), originally scheduled to be held in March 2019, has been postponed to the 3rd quarter of the year. The inaugural event, held from February 7 to 9, 2018, at the Guyana Marriott Hotel, was...
Exploration

ExxonMobil gunning for more oil at Yellowtail as Guyana foray continues

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Twelve discoveries and more than 5 billion barrels of oil later, US oil major ExxonMobil’s story in Guyana is still being written and analysts believe that more oil lay in the chapters ahead. Fresh off of its 11th and 12th...
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TechnipFMC awarded large EPCI contract for Petrobras Mero 1 pre-salt field in Brazil

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TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) (PARIS: FTI) said on Wednesday it has been awarded a large engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for the Mero 1 pre-salt field, located in the Santos Basin, at 2,100 meters of water depth offshore...
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Special Editorial: Maduro’s bully tactics won’t get him another face-to-face with Ali 

The following is an opinion editorial by Shikema Dey, Research and Content Developer at OilNOW, and a seasoned Journalist...

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