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First 100% Guyanese-owned human resource company to service O&G industry launched

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The first human resource company with 100% Guyanese ownership servicing the South American country’s emerging oil and gas industry was officially launched on Friday in Georgetown. Strategic Recruitment Solutions Inc. (SRSGY) is currently providing human resource services to three of...
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Eco Atlantic contracts Stena Forth for Guyana drill campaign

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Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (aim:ECO)(EOG), along with its partners in the Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana, Total E&P Activités Pétrolières and Tullow Guyana B.V. (Operator), has contracted a rig, the Stena Forth, a sixth-generation drillship from Stena Carron...
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Liza Unity will follow Destiny in Guyana oil bonanza

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The Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, the first of its kind produced by SBM Offshore using its Fast4WardTM programme, is expected to closely follow the Liza Destiny which will begin producing oil for Guyana by 2020. The Unity...
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Guyana, Brazil pushing FPSO demand through 2025 – Rystad Energy

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From 2019 to 2021 Rystad Energy expects 33 FPSOs to be sanctioned as oil and gas activity picks up in the offshore sector.  15 of the FPSOs will require a production capacity above 80,000 barrels/day. This high capacity demand comes...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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‘Business as usual’: No disruption in Guyana’s operations despite Venezuela controversy – GCCI Pres.  

Kathy Smith, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), has made it clear that there has...

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