CNOOC Limited, a 25 percent stakeholder in Guyana’s prolific offshore Stabroek Block along with ExxonMobil (45 percent) and HESS (30 percent), announced on January 2, 2019 that its Egina Field, located in deepwater offshore Nigeria, has commenced production.
The company...
(Merco Press) Due to ExxonMobil’s run of success in oil exploration offshore Guyana, the country is on a path to becoming a Latin American powerhouse, Wood Mackenzie said. The super-major announced its tenth Guyana discovery this week, increasing the...
ExxonMobil said on Wednesday that drilling and development operations offshore Guyana are unaffected by an incident which occurred on Saturday, December 22, in which survey vessels contracted by the company were intercepted in the Stabroek Block by the Venezuelan navy.
In...
Almost three days after Venezuela’s navy intercepted a survey vessel contracted to ExxonMobil operating in the western portion of Guyana’s Stabroek Block, the 15-member CARICOM body of which Guyana is a founder-member, is yet to issue a statement on...
The United States Department of State on Sunday said through its Deputy Spokesperson, Robert Palladino, that the South American country of Guyana has the sovereign right to explore resources off its coastline.
The statement comes in response to what Guyana has...
Guyana said on Saturday evening that it will be lodging a formal complaint with the United Nations over what it described as an “illegal, aggressive and hostile act” perpetrated by the Government of Venezuela which saw the interception of...
OilNow has learnt that the Venezuelan military has intercepted a seismic vessel which is contracted to ExxonMobil and which was carrying out survey works in the offshore Guyana Basin.
ExxonMobil in an update said that it is in communication with the...
It was disclosed by Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, on Thursday that the Government has spent US$3.7M in 2018 to fight Guyana’s border case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
“This business at the ICJ is a...
CEO of HESS Corporation John Hess said that despite the volatility in oil prices and the decline of financial markets, Hess has not changed its long-term strategy with a focus on executing it to deliver value to its shareholders...
Guyana leads the way ahead of industry giants the United States of America and Russia in terms of barrels of oil equivalent (boe) petroleum discoveries for the year 2018.
According to a report from Rystad Energy, “2018 stands already as...