American international industrial service company, Baker Hughes, is moving to set up an Oilfield Service Facility at Land of Canaan on the East Bank of Demerara in Guyana, where it expects to provide employment for over 70 Guyanese during...
Guyana’s President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, has arrived in Suriname for a state visit over the period November 23 to 26, during which time discussions will be held with President Chandrikapersad Santokhi to build on the issues advanced during...
Grand Canal Industrial Estates Inc. (GCIE), a subsidiary of CGX Energy Inc., has begun seeking human resources personnel for its Berbice Deep Water Port facility, located in the new oil producing country of Guyana.
In multiple advertisements in the local...
The projected breakeven price for development of oil fields offshore Suriname is expected to reduce in coming years as more discoveries are made, and production gets underway.
So far, three discoveries have been made at Block 58, estimated to contain...
The drillship Stena Carron is set to depart the Tanager-1 well site in the Kaieteur block and will take up a new assignment at the Redtail area, back in the adjacent Stabroek block, for an exercise that is set...
Guyana is poised to significantly reduce its reliance on imported fossil fuel to meet its energy needs through the utilisation of natural gas from the offshore Liza field at the Stabroek block. There has been broad-based consensus on the...
Offshore exploration and production activities in South America have long been dominated by Brazil with its vast offshore pre-salt developments. State oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) alone accounted for nearly 88% of the continent’s deepwater OPEX in the...
Saipem has signed a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) with Saudi Aramco for onshore engineering and construction activities. The deal, which is for a duration of twelve years, entails efficiency activities on existing facilities and is part of Saudi Aramco’s broader...
Payara, ExxonMobil’s 3rd development at the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, has made way for the award of the largest subsea contract in the oil and gas industry since 2014. This comes in a year which one industry analyst describes as...
The results from the Tanager-1 exploration well at the Kaieteur Block offshore Guyana announced on Tuesday brings back into focus the risky nature of exploration, even in a basin where the success rate has been well above 90 percent.
Since...