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30 contractors already registered on new local content opportunity portal

Guyana’s Local Content Secretariat (LCS) has created a new portal to help streamline opportunities for locals available in the country’s oil and gas industry. The portal carries a similar interface to the Local Content Registry of local companies. According to...

Chamber taps gov’t for easier access to financing, strengthening local content law

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), led by President Timothy Tucker, met with Guyana’s Attorney General, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, Tuesday to discuss several legislative matters critical to the advancement of the businesses in Guyana. Of interest to companies...

Tucker says ‘contract bundling’ runs counter to spirit and intent of local content law

Months after local content targets were enshrined in new legislation, the Guyana government is looking to remove obstacles to achieving the Local Content Act’s purpose. In some instances, government considers the bundling of contracts to be one of those...

Gap analysis needed to assess competencies of Suriname’s oil sector – T&T local content expert

Head of Trinidad and Tobago’s Permanent Local Content Committee, Jemma Langley, Thursday advised Suriname to conduct a gap analysis. In the context of local content and the oil and gas sector, a gap analysis would measure the actual capacities and...

Ramps says will meet Local Content Secretariat’s reasonable demands

Ramps Logistics says it will accede to document requests made by the Local Content Secretariat, in its bid to be placed on Guyana’s Local Content Register. It said this in a statement after receiving a letter from the Secretariat’s Director,...

Ramps may have made misleading submissions in breach of Local Content Act, could be fined GY$10M – source

Ramps Logistics may have made misleading submissions in its application to be on Guyana’s Local Content Register, among several breaches of Guyana’s Local Content Act, OilNOW understands. The company has opened itself to a fine of GY$10 million, because of...

City Chamber says ‘rent-a-citizen’ tactics run counter to local content law

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) says disapproves "rent-a-citizen" and "fronting" tactics potentially being used by companies operating in Guyana's oil and gas sector, because such tactics run counter to the spirit of Guyana's local content legislation.  In...

Ramps says legal action on the cards over local content spat

Ramps Logistics’ chief executive, Shaun Rampersad came out in defense of the efforts it made to receive a Guyana local content certificate, including divestment of 51% of the company to a man with Guyanese citizenship named Deepak Lall. This...

Business group says it fully supports ‘strong action’ against companies skirting local content law

Guyana’s Private Sector Commission said on Wednesday that it supports the government taking “strong action” against companies trying to circumvent the Local Content Act. The Act was passed in December, and contains provisions aimed at increasing Guyanese participation in the oil...

Guyana mulls court action against companies trying to bypass local content laws

Guyana’s Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo says the government is mulling court action against international firms which are trying to circumvent local content laws. “A lot of foreign companies are trying to beat the law,” the Vice President highlighted during...

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Middle East tensions could lift Guyana’s oil revenues, but capacity risks remain – Orinoco Research

Rising geopolitical instability in the Middle East could increase oil revenues for Guyana while also exposing capacity constraints across...