Trinidad and Tobago is looking to attract exploration investment with a new offshore bid round. However, the introduction of a royalty imposed on investors may be counter-productive for the government in the longer term, according to GlobalData, a leading data...

Korean shipbuilding giant, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has transformed Nigeria into a hub for fabrication and integration of Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) units in Africa, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has declared, according to a...

Twenty-four Guyanese will soon join the more than one thousand nationals already working on ExxonMobil’s Liza Phase 1 Development project in the South American country of Guyana. The 24 persons, inclusive of two females, will be assigned to the Liza...

Harvey Gulf International Marine, one of the top marine transportation companies globally, has identified Guyana as its latest investment destination. The US-based company specializes in providing Offshore Supply and Multi-Purpose Support Vessels for deepwater operations. A team from the company is...

In the exploitation of many depletable resources, two separate investment activities can be distinguished that must take place if production is to continue in an orderly fashion: exploration and development. It is well accepted in economic theory that land...

Chinese state-owned Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS), the company contracted by SBM Offshore to build the Fast4WardTM hull for the Liza Unity FPSO, has officially launched its offshore engineering arm, Waigaoqiao Qingdong Offshore Engineering Company, located at Qidong ship industrial park, Jiangsu. Seatrade Maritime News reports...

Houston-based Apache Corporation is set to spud its first well offshore Suriname by mid-year in Block 58 which sits adjacent to sections of the prolific Stabroek Block where ExxonMobil has found more than 5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Apache...

ExxonMobil’s prime contractor for the manufacturing and installation of subsea equipment, TechnipFMC, days ago broke ground on its new location at Houston, on the East Bank of Demerara in Guyana. According to ExxonMobil Guyana, the new TechnipFMC location will initially...

Over the next few months Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem will be ramping-up operations offshore Guyana as preparatory work gets underway ahead of the arrival of the Liza Destiny in Q3. This includes a survey of the sea floor...

The theory of a ‘curse of natural resources’ can be traced back to the 1970s. The subsequent two decades saw the emergence of a significant body of research proposing a link between resource production, economic underperformance and various socio-political...