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Local consortium, foreign auditors team up to audit Exxon’s 2018-2020 costs

Guyana's Ministry of Natural Resources has hired a group of firms, for a four-month period, to audit the costs of the Exxon-led Stabroek Block consortium for the period 2018-2020. A local consortium was hired, consisting of Ramdihal and Haynes Chartered...

The implications of a National Oil Company (NOC) in Guyana

By Arthur Deakin – OilNOW The government of Guyana, which is sitting on 11 billion barrels of oil equivalent, will have a much-anticipated bid round for its remaining untendered oil blocks in the third quarter of 2022. The government is...

Studies have not shown oil and gas operations driving impact on fisheries – Exxon Official

ExxonMobil Guyana’s in-country projects manager, Anthony Jackson, said the company is committed to supporting studies on the environmental impacts of its operations, so it can understand if they have any impact on Guyana’s fish stock. He made this comment during...

Drill campaign at Zanderij-1 offshore Suriname planned for third quarter

Planning is underway for an exploration campaign to be conducted at the Zanderij-1 prospect located at Block 42 offshore Suriname. The well, targeting both Campanian and Santonian aged reservoirs, will be spudded around the third quarter of this year. As...

New South American oil star arrived in the year prices collapsed

The price of oil fell to its lowest level in 11 years in 2015 as commodity markets responded to signs that the global glut of oil would have deepen the following year. While oil ministers from Qatar and Iraq...

Barreleye unearths new oil column

The new Barreleye-1 well, drilled in 3,840 feet of water, found roughly 230 feet of hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone reservoirs, 52 feet of which is high quality oil bearing. The well is located about 20 miles southeast of the original Liza...

Houston, wider East Bank morphing into major corridor of oil and gas development in Guyana – Bharrat

A new oil and gas corridor is quickly emerging in Guyana on the East Bank of Demerara where several oil field services companies have been setting up operations in recent years. “It seems as though Houston in Guyana is becoming like Houston in Texas;...

US$60 billion to be invested in Guyana oil and gas sector this decade – Rystad analyst

Rystad Energy’s Latin America analyst, Sofia Forestieri, said the energy research firm expects international oil companies to invest approximately US$60 billion into exploration and production activities, mainly in the Stabroek Block, in the decade 2021-2030. Rystad projected that, of investments...

Better to use gas for Guyana’s benefit than to flare, reinject it – GCCI President

Guyana’s current natural gas reserves total some 16 trillion cubic feet, according to the Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo. And that gas can either be used for energy generation or reinjected into Guyana’s offshore wells. The government has a ‘no...

T&T appoints Chair of National Gas Company as High Commissioner to Guyana

Conrad Enill, the current Chairman of Trinidad and Tobago’s National Gas Company (NGC) is now the twin-island Republic’s High Commissioner to Guyana. His appointment comes at a time when Guyana is amassing considerable natural gas reserves in the offshore Stabroek Block, and...

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T&T Energy services firms report 56% drop in business volume and value in Q1 2026

Energy services companies in Trinidad and Tobago reported a sharp slowdown in activity in the first quarter of 2026,...