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Liza SURF contractor Saipem awarded FEED contract for Ugandan refinery

Italian oil and gas industry contractor, Saipem, has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract to build and develop a new refinery in Hoima, Uganda. According to Oil Review Africa, the award was made by the Albertine Graben Refinery...

Strategic Recruitment Solutions – sourcing skills for the oil and gas industry

What's the best way to get a great job in the rapidly emerging oil and gas sector? If you’re up-to-date on current business trends, your best bet might be to sign up with Strategic Recruitment Solutions (SRS); a 100%-owned Guyanese...

Noble Tom Madden awarded contract for Stabroek drill campaign – Noble Corporation

Noble Corporation said on Thursday that the Noble Tom Madden has been awarded a contract for drilling operations offshore Guyana. The company made the announcement in its second quarter 2018 report. “Following the close of the second quarter, the drillship Noble Tom...

ExxonMobil to implement wide-ranging measures in the event of oil spill in Guyana

ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has outlined a number of measures the company will take in the event of an oil spill from its Liza Phase 1 development. The company’s Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) was...

Third drillship to arrive in Guyana by year-end; ExxonMobil still to decide on contractor

As exploration and production activities continue to ramp up offshore Guyana, US oil major ExxonMobil will engage another drillship to aid in the search for more oil. This vessel will be the third such drillship, joining the Stena Carron...

Ring plundered $1.2 billion of Venezuelan oil money, laundered it in South Florida

A web of former Venezuelan officials and businessmen was charged in Miami Wednesday with operating a massive $1.2 billion international money-laundering racket funded with stolen government money that was invested in South Florida real estate and other assets, the...

Guyanese companies making progress in preparation for first oil – CLBD Director

Guyanese businesses have improved their systems and are successfully joining the supply chain for the South American nation’s emerging petroleum industry. So says Project Director of ExxonMobil Guyana's Center for Local Business Development (CLBD) Patrick Henry who disclosed that over...

ExxonMobil seeking to prequalify contractors for head office construction in Guyana

US oil giant ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production (Guyana) Limited has published a Request for Information for general contracting services, with a view to gathering the relevant data on the market for contractors for the construction of...

Hundreds of Norway oil workers go on strike, Shell shuts Knarr Field

(Reuters) Hundreds of workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs went on strike on Tuesday after rejecting a proposed wage deal, leading to the shutdown of one Shell-operated field and helping send Brent crude prices higher. One union said...

PDVSA’s oil sales to US bounced in June; Caribbean stocks drained

(Reuters) - Venezuelan crude sales to the United States recovered in June from May as state-run PDVSA exported more of its diluted oil to its customers and drained inventories from two Caribbean islands affected by assets seizures, according to...

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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...