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Major oil find excites southern Caribbean

(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...

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

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,...

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

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...

Guyana moving ahead with new model PSA

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...

Commercial choices and developmental linkages for Guyana’s promising oil economy

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...

Shell leads cash race but Exxon catching up

(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...

GIPEX postponed: organizers eyeing Q3 2019

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...

ExxonMobil gunning for more oil at Yellowtail as Guyana foray continues

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...

TechnipFMC awarded large EPCI contract for Petrobras Mero 1 pre-salt field in Brazil

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...

WoodMac expects ‘billion-barrel scale volumes’ from Guyana, Mexico and Brazil

After a difficult few years, the exploration sector is back in the black – and keen to stay there. New analysis from Wood Mackenzie shows that explorers’ success in 2018 reflects a disciplined approach that’s set to continue this...

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Eco Atlantic announces passing of Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Colin Kinley

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced the sudden passing of its co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Colin...