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Guyana oil strikes help push global discoveries to 4-year high – Rystad Energy

The world’s oil and gas explorers powered ahead and discovered 12.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in 2019, the highest volume since 2015, according to estimates from Rystad Energy. Last year recorded 26 discoveries of more than 100...

Potential for ‘prolific oil wells’ seen in historic discovery offshore Suriname

Apache’s historic oil discovery offshore Suriname has opened a new chapter in the potential of the Guyana-Suriname basin which the US Geological Survey (USGS) has long said could contain more than 13.6 billion barrels of oil and 32 trillion...

Apache’s stock rockets toward biggest gain in nearly 50 years after company strikes oil offshore Suriname

Shares of Apache Corp. on Tuesday surged toward their biggest one-day gain in nearly 50 years, after the oil-and-gas company announced a “significant oil discovery” off the shores of Suriname, MarketWatch said in a report. That prompted Bank of America...

Guyana enters 2020 as new oil producer with a total of 18 discoveries

The South American country of Guyana has entered the new decade as an oil producer with a total of 18 discoveries made since 2015. There also remains massive potential for more discoveries from ongoing and planned exploration campaigns by...

Motley Fool asks: where will ExxonMobil be in 5 Years?

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is the second-largest publicly traded oil and gas company behind the recent IPO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. After a rough last five years of revamping its portfolio in an effort to adjust to the new...

First oil will be catalyst for development if sector is managed effectively – Boyer

Following the first ever commercial oil discovery in Guyana in May 2015, ExxonMobil and its co-venture partners HESS and CNOOC announced the commencement of oil production from the Liza Phase 1 development in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana on...

Companies investing big in South America’s massive offshore oil fields – Canary, LLC CEO

Large sums of monies are being invested in bringing massive oil fields in Guyana and Brazil to development which will help to add significant volumes to South America’s production output in the new decade. In an op-ed published on Forbes,...

Tullow’s shares tumble on news of ‘below expectations’ Guyana oil find

The release of drilling results by Tullow Oil on Thursday from its Carapa-1 well offshore Guyana saw the company’s shares tumbling on what analysts are saying is unlikely to be a commercial discovery. The oil and gas group’s share price...

Oil to fuel mega projects, development programmes in coming decade – Granger

The dawn of the new year has coincided with the start of oil production in Guyana and the country’s President, David Granger, says this will help to intensify plans to transform the South American nation of just over 750,000...

Bayphase Ltd. awarded contract to review plans for ExxonMobil’s 3rd development offshore Guyana

Guyana’s Department of Energy (DE) said on Tuesday it has successfully completed the evaluation of eleven Expressions of Interest from international firms for support services in review and evaluation of ExxonMobil’s Payara Field Development Plans. The Expressions of Interest received...

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Payara crude holds slight price premium over other Stabroek Block grades

Payara Gold crude from ExxonMobil’s third Guyana oil development has consistently traded at a marginal premium to its other...