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GTT CEO urges Guyanese to focus on creating wealth, prosperity for self and family

The CEO of the largest telecommunications company in Guyana is urging Guyanese to carefully consider how becoming an oil producing nation will significantly transform the country which has gone from having no known oil resources to more than 6...

Oversight and controls for Guyana’s petroleum revenues

Limitations on Types of Investments An oil revenue management law should limit an oil fund's investments to certain secure and non-speculative instruments. New oil revenue management law and petroleum fund law should provide for such limitations. As a fund becomes...

Half of ExxonMobil’s workforce for its exploration and development activities at Stabroek Block is Guyanese

More than 3,400 people are working for ExxonMobil on its project for the exploration and development of hydrocarbon resources offshore the South American country of Guyana, and half of that number is Guyanese. The US oil major has been steadily...

Guyana engaging oil companies to close skills gap

Head of Guyana’s Department of Energy (DE) Dr Mark Bynoe says a large part of the Department’s engagement with oil companies is their contribution to education as part of the larger agenda for the South American country’s national development. Speaking...

GIPEX 2019: Oil wealth should be the catalyst to move to clean energy – Dr Bynoe

Dr Mark Bynoe, Head of Guyana's Department of Energy, on Wednesday, reemphasized his agency's commitment to pursuing the country's green economy and using the oil resources to propel the South American nation into becoming an exemplar of clean energy...

TOTALTEC nominated for Oilfield Service Company of the Year

Guyanese services company TOTALTEC Oilfield Services has announced that it has been shortlisted for Oilfield Services Company of the Year at this year’s World Energy Capital Assembly Awards to be held in London, December 4, 2019. A statement from TOTALTEC...

ConocoPhillips targets $50 billion free cash flow over next decade

ConocoPhillips unveiled a long-term plan on Tuesday to boost oil and gas production by about 3% per year, restrain annual spending to about $7 billion and return $50 billion to shareholders over the next decade. The announcement comes as investors,...

Exxon to divest $15 billion in assets by 2021 as development of Guyana oil fields progress

US oil major ExxonMobil is among several global giants in the oil and gas industry looking to sell assets that could fetch a total of $27.5 billion according to Rystad Energy’s latest assessment. The plans by Exxon to divest...

AMCHAM, JHI set to discuss how Guyana arrived at first oil at pre GIPEX event

The American Chamber of Commerce Guyana (AmCham) and JHI Associates Inc. are set to stage a discussion on how Guyana arrived at first oil, slated for Tuesday ahead of the opening of the country’s largest petroleum exhibition and conference...

A subsea giant could be in the making with Saipem, Subsea 7 merger

A merger between Italian-based Saipem – one of ExxonMobil’s Prime Contractors for its offshore project in Guyana – and UK-based Subsea 7 would create a subsea giant in the oilfield services industry. Commenting on unconfirmed reports that such a merger...

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Ali names 25-member cabinet; Vickram Bharrat back at oil ministry

President Irfaan Ali of Guyana unveiled 25 ministerial Cabinet appointees on Saturday evening, as the government embarks on its...