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No guarantee other oil companies in the Guyana Basin will strike it big like Exxon – Wood Mack

The Guyana-Suriname Basin is a vast expanse of deep to ultra-deep water with multiple play types where, despite ExxonMobil’s unprecedented success, exploration is still a high-risk venture. But Exxon’s 9 discoveries, which to date, amounts to more than 4...

CNOOC Limited expecting 58,700 bpd by 2020 from Penglai production

CNOOC Limited one of the three partners in Guyana’s offshore Stabroek Block, announced on September 18, 2018 that the Penglai 19-3 oilfield project has commenced production. The project, known formally as the Penglai 19-3 oilfield 1/3/8/9 comprehensive adjustment project is...

Call for halt to oil production is ‘self-promoting stunt in pursuit of ulterior motive’ – former minister

Debate on a myriad of issues continues in Guyana as the country gears up to become a major oil producer in the region. A former government official is describing as ‘disturbing’, a recent call for the Guyana government to...

Tullow Oil plans to drill first Guyana well in third quarter of 2019

(Reuters) - Tullow Oil plans to drill its first well in the much-watched Guyana offshore basin in the third quarter of next year in its Orinduik license bordering discoveries by Exxon, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Exxon and U.S. partner...

Guyana’s oil fortune rapidly increasing

‘Unprecedented’ is the one word that sums up the remarkable string of oil discoveries which US supermajor ExxonMobil has been making off the Guyana coast since 2015. The company’s success rate for finding crude in an area five and...

World-class Liza field accounts for 15% of all crude found globally since 2015

UK-based industry analyst Wood Mackenzie says Guyana has been one of the most dominant players in the oil and gas industry since 2015 with a record number of discoveries being made, most notable of which are those in the...

Noble Tom Madden set for Pluma drill campaign as ExxonMobil ramps up oil search in Guyana

Fresh off of its 9th discovery offshore Guyana, US oil major ExxonMobil already has a new target in its cross-hairs and will aim to begin drilling operations  around October this year. The company says potential for additional production from significant...

Guyana can become richest corner of the continent

(Rigzone) Following Exxon Mobil Corp.’s latest Hammerhead-1 discovery, the company’s ninth discovery offshore Guyana, it’s believed the country will create the greatest value of any offshore basin since the downturn, according to Maria Cortez, Wood Mackenzie’s Latin American upstream senior...

ExxonMobil strikes oil again in 9th discovery off Guyana coast

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) has made its ninth discovery offshore Guyana at the Hammerhead-1 well, marking its fifth discovery on the Stabroek Block in the past year and proving a new play concept for potential development. Hammerhead-1 encountered approximately 197 feet (60 meters)...

ExxonMobil says US$460M spent on drill campaign, other efforts which led to world-class Liza discovery

ExxonMobil Guyana said on Friday that the company expended US$460M between 1999 and 2015 on a range of activities and interventions which led to the world-class Liza discovery, set to propel the South American country towards becoming a significant...

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Venezuela has no authority over seismic work in Guyana’s waters – gov’t

Guyana has rejected Venezuela’s objection to a planned three-dimensional multi-client seismic exploration program within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),...