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Multi-billion-barrel wells facing delays in Guyana, US and elsewhere – Rystad Energy

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At least nine of the world’s top planned exploration wells for 2020 are at risk of being suspended as a result of the combined effect on oil and gas activities of the COVID-19 virus and the oil price war,...
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Total divests $400M in Brunei, Sierra Leone and Liberia assets

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French multinational oil company Total has announced that in line with its strategy of actively managing its asset portfolio and its objective to divest $5 billion during the period 2019-2020, it is pursuing the divestments of several non-core assets...
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Exxon slashes 2020 CAPEX by 30% – says Guyana oil production unaffected but other slowdowns expected

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ExxonMobil said Tuesday it is reducing its 2020 capital spending by 30 percent and lowering cash operating expenses by 15 percent in response to low commodity prices resulting from oversupply and demand weakness from the COVID-19 pandemic. Capital investments for...
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Fugro forced to implement hiring, salary freeze as impact of COVID-19 deepens

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Dutch engineering company Fugro said on Monday it is taking appropriate measures during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep its employees, partners and clients safe and healthy while ensuring service delivery. Current market conditions have forced the company to implement...
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“We do not see Exxon turning off the taps in Guyana” – Rystad Energy

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The fall in oil prices triggered by the Saudi Arabia-Russia price war and the COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in a number of oil and gas companies readjusting their 2020 exploration and production programmes. US oil major ExxonMobil said...
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Oil drops more than 6% to 18-year low as global demand evaporates

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(CNBC) U.S. oil dropped to an 18-year low on Monday as demand continues to evaporate, and as Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ nations prepare to ramp up production. With much of the world in lockdown as the coronavirus pandemic rages...
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Guyana can learn from the Venezuelan crisis

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Venezuela provides a window to a dystopian future. The country’s neighbour to the east, Guyana, is developing its first offshore oil and gas finds made in the past five years. There’s a growing number of them; the 16th discovery...
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Tullow utilizing Ebola-tested contingency strategies against COVID-19

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Tullow Oil PLC is using contingency plans developed to avoid the dreaded Ebola outbreak in Africa to craft strategies to guard its employees against the virulent novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The virus has to date infected more than 575,000 persons...
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Low quality Guyana oil among list of Tullow’s 2019 disappointments

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Executive Chair of Tullow Oil PLC Dorothy Thompson reported the Board’s disappointment in the company’s operational and financial performance for 2019, saying that in 2020 the British oil and gas operator will work to rebuild the stakeholder trust that...
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Guyana remains a bright spot in oil’s universe but politics could change the outlook

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The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and several other institutions, analysts and experts have all placed Guyana on the road to rapid economic growth and transformation fueled by the massive oil resources discovered by ExxonMobil off the country’s coast...
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Chinese oil and gas giant CNOOC eyes greater role in Trinidad and Tobago’s energy sector

Executives from China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) this week met with Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Energy and...

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