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CNOOC inks cooperation agreements with 9 international oil companies

CNOOC Limited on December 18, 2018 announced that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), has signed Strategic Cooperation Agreements with 9 international oil companies including: Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Equinor, Husky, KUFPEC, Roc Oil, Shell, SK Innovation and TOTAL. As...

Angola’s Sonangol, ExxonMobil sign oil exploration agreement

(Reuters) - Angola’s state oil company Sonangol and ExxonMobil on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding for oil exploration in the country’s Namibe basin, the two firms said. Angola, Africa’s second-largest crude producer, is facing a steep output decline unless...

Guyana ratifies conventions to protect against oil spills – Greenidge

Guyana’s ratification of several international conventions has been approved by Cabinet. These are aimed at, among other things, strengthening the country’s legal framework for the emerging Oil and Gas industry. This was announced by the country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Carl...

Guyanese businesses link up with Liza Phase 1 Prime Contractors at supplier forum

ExxonMobil Guyana and the Centre for Local Business Development opened its Liza Phase One Supplier Development Forum on Monday at the Guyana Marriott Hotel in the country’s capital, Georgetown. Country Manager of ExxonMobil Guyana, Rod Henson, explained that, “We host...

Oil halts slide near $51 as concerns persist over supply glut

(Bloomberg) Oil traded near $51 a barrel on concerns record output by Saudi Arabia will exacerbate a supply glut as President Donald Trump continues to call for lower prices. Futures in New York halted a decline, after slumping 7.7 percent...

Liza Tier 1 contractor TechnipFMC to supply Chevron with wellhead equipment

TechnipFMC (NYSE:FTI) (Paris:FTI) (ISIN:GB00BDSFG982) has signed a Surface Technologies Frame Agreement with Chevron. This 5-year agreement covers the exclusive supply of surface wellhead equipment and service in the United States and Canada. Richard Alabaster, President of TechnipFMC’s Surface Technologies business, said,...

As Guyana preps for 750,000 bpd bounty by 2025, Goldman Sachs says oil shortage is coming

As the South American country of Guyana prepares to join the league of petroleum producing nations, American multinational investment bank, Goldman Sachs, says an oil shortage is coming over the next decade because firms cannot fully invest in future...

Energy Department prepping for Guyana oil bonanza

Guyana’s newly established Department of Energy (DoE) is currently looking at a series of capacity building initiatives that will allow it to better meet its’ objectives in the country's emerging oil and gas sector. Since 2015, US oil major ExxonMobil...

Bynoe says gov’t will honor ExxonMobil contract even as it looks to design new model PSA

Speaking at his first official press conference since assuming office, Head of Guyana’s Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe told reporters on Thursday, at the Ministry of the Presidency, that any review of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between...

ExxonMobil urges women to prepare for opportunities in oil and gas

Women entrepreneurs have been urged to educate themselves on the oil and gas sector so that they can be best prepared to tap into business opportunities that will emerge as Guyana becomes a major oil producer. This call was issued...

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Two oil nations, one engineering crisis: Guyana short, Trinidad shrinking

The challenge of producing and retaining engineers is playing out in two different ways in Trinidad and Tobago and...