Construction of the ONE GUYANA floating, production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) is about 75% complete, according to new updates from SBM Offshore.  The company, in its Half Year report for 2024, said the topside modules lifting campaign has been...

MODEC is offering two exclusive opportunities for final-year students, recent graduates, and young professionals eager to break into Guyana’s oil and gas industry. For final-year students, MODEC presents a 1-year paid internship program.  It said this opportunity allows three interns to...

As Suriname awaits a final investment decision (FID) from TotalEnergies on the country’s first-ever oil development, an expert on risk says the fiscal part of this story has impeded the process.  Ford Tanner, Associate Director with the Exploration and Production...

Petrobras has reached a key milestone with the Uchuva-2 well, confirming the natural gas discovery initially made in 2022 with Uchuva-1.  Located 31 km offshore Colombia at a water depth of 804 meters, Uchuva-2 was spudded on June 19 and...

Guyana and Suriname are becoming pivotal areas for oil and gas development, with the potential to significantly influence global energy dynamics, according to Patrick Jelinek, EY Americas Oil and Gas Leader. Jelinek notes that Guyana's nascent energy sector offers both...

The government of Guyana signed a US$8.6 million contract with Power China to construct a building to house the National Control Centre of the Gas-to-Energy (GtE) project. At the signing, Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d), Mark Phillips, fulfilling the functions of...

Subsea7 said offshore pipelay for the Guyana Gas-to-Energy project was delivered 10-days ahead of schedule. “This was our first project in Guyana and involved the fabrication and S-Lay of 119 kilometers of rigid pipeline using Seven Borealis," said Chief Executive...

TotalEnergies has announced its withdrawal from two offshore oil and gas blocks in South Africa. This decision follows the exit of its partner, QatarEnergy, from one of the blocks. TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy are both withdrawing from Block 11B/12B, off South...

Even with a string of massive oil developments being pursued offshore Guyana, the country will remain a net carbon sink for years to come, a study indicated.  Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requested that ExxonMobil conduct an environmental impact assessment...

Westwood Global Energy Group forecasts an additional US$35 billion in offshore oil and gas (O&G) related engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) spending for the remainder of 2024. This will be driven by approximately 125 subsea tree unit awards, 2,230...