Decades of failed attempts to find oil in the Guyana-Suriname basin saw companies bailing out and disappointment mounting, with many persons, ranging from laymen to experts, concluding that striking black gold in this frontier was unlikely and way too...
The world’s oil and gas explorers powered ahead and discovered 12.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in 2019, the highest volume since 2015, according to estimates from Rystad Energy. Last year recorded 26 discoveries of more than 100...
Spread over 26,800km² in Guyana’s offshore waters, the Stabroek Block is estimated to contain more than six billion barrels of oil equivalent as of 2019. Drilling has been ongoing to explore and evaluate other potential areas of the block.
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Explorers have been looking closely at the multi-billion-barrel oil resource at Guyana’s Stabroek Block with hopes that this prolific petroleum system stretches across to Suriname where efforts to find hydrocarbons offshore have been futile…until now.
The discovery at Maka Central-1...
Canadian-based oil and gas company CGX Energy is expected to drill an exploration well offshore Guyana by November of this year after deferring its 2019 target for spudding a well at the Corentyne Block. CGX is operator at the...
The South American country of Guyana has entered the new decade as an oil producer with a total of 18 discoveries made since 2015. There also remains massive potential for more discoveries from ongoing and planned exploration campaigns by...
Three discoveries have been made outside the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, the most recent being Carapa-1 where Repsol and its partners encountered just around 4 metres of net oil pay. While this, together with the heavy oil results from...
ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is the second-largest publicly traded oil and gas company behind the recent IPO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. After a rough last five years of revamping its portfolio in an effort to adjust to the new...
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. believes the recently announced Carapa-1 oil find by Tullow Oil in the Kanuku Block offshore Guyana, though lower than previously estimated, is still an important discovery as it confirms the prospectivity of the...
Following the first ever commercial oil discovery in Guyana in May 2015, ExxonMobil and its co-venture partners HESS and CNOOC announced the commencement of oil production from the Liza Phase 1 development in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana on...
