Guyana has started the year with an exploration disappointment as a partner in the ExxonMobil-operated Canje block last week revealed that the first wildcat in the license failed to deliver. However, Rystad Energy expects exploration activity in the country...
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Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is one of the largest publicly traded oil companies in the world. The company has recovered admirably from its COVID-19 lows towards a market capitalization of ~$260 billion. However, it's...
Just over a year since oil production began at the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, the government secured its highest price yet for the export of Liza crude in February, coming in wake of a 12-month period that saw massive...
The success rate of global conventional oil and gas exploration has declined in recent years, but the most painful blow has been to onshore wildcat wells, a Rystad Energy analysis reveals. In 2020, the success rate of these drilled...
The Environmental Permit issued to ExxonMobil Guyana on June 1, 2017 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Liza Phase 1 Development allows for flaring under certain conditions and outlines measures that should be compiled with when such...
The resource potential of the Guyana-Suriname basin where ExxonMobil has to date made a total of 19 discoveries (18 in Guyana and 1 in Suriname) is estimated to contain more than 18 billion barrels of oil equivalent resources, the...
Originally published in the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago (GSTT) HAMMER Magazine – February 2021
The CARICOM region is now one of the hot spots globally for oil and gas activity, with most of the drilling taking place in Guyana...
The Government of Guyana has applied for financing in the amount of US$20 million from the World Bank toward the cost of the Guyana Petroleum Resources Governance and Management Project (GPRGMP) and it intends to apply part of the...
Even though the Canje block’s wildcat - Bulletwood-1 - did not result in a commercial discovery, ExxonMobil and its partners, Hess Corporation and CNOOC are still laser-focused on their exploration and appraisal work which will continue on the prolific...
The drill campaign at the Bulletwood-1 prospect on the ExxonMobil-operated Canje Block has concluded and according to preliminary results, the well encountered quality reservoirs but non-commercial hydrocarbons.
“Bulletwood-1, the first well in the Canje block has confirmed our seismic interpretation...