Lawyers representing Guyana’s former Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, have issued a letter to former Presidential Advisor on Petroleum, Dr. Jan Mangal, requesting that he immediately retracts ‘false and defamatory’ statements on the award of...

Wells that once tapped the world’s largest crude reserves are abandoned or left to flare toxic gases that cast an orange glow over depressed oil towns in Venezuela, the New York Times said in a recent report. Refineries that once...

(S&P Global) Brazil's Supreme Court maintained 2018 regulations that allowed state-led oil company Petrobras to sell exploration and production assets, in a majority decision handed down Oct. 2. This decision gave the company its second consecutive court victory in support...

The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago says two ongoing projects in the Caribbean oil producing nation are wells to watch in 2020 – BHP’s Broadside and Touchstone Exploration’s Chinook – both offshore Trinidad. In a recent article, the Chamber...

The more than 8 billion barrels of oil equivalent resources discovered offshore Guyana since 2015 by US oil major ExxonMobil is merely the tip of the iceberg, with much more to come. Multiple drill targets remain on the 6.6...

Guyana’s Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, said on Friday the country is not in a position to raise the US$9 billion on its own that is required for the Payara development hence the need for investors, and further, moving...

Global oil and gas company, TechnipFMC, has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, for delivery of the subsea system for the Payara development project. Payara, ExxonMobil’s 3rd development at the Stabroek Block, was...

The sanctioning of ExxonMobil’s third development at the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana on Wednesday has already triggered a flurry of activities by contractors who will be now be looking to move ahead with various aspects of the project, set...

The US$9 billion Payara Development targeting an estimated resource base of around 600 million oil-equivalent barrels is the largest investment in Guyana’s history, and combined with Liza 1 and 2, will push the country’s production to more than half...

The Guyana Government on Wednesday announced the approval of the 220,000 bpd Payara Development - ExxonMobil’s third project offshore the South American country, paving the way for the company’s Final Investment Decision (FID). The $9 billion development, targeted for start-up...