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(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Nov.2021) — According to the government of Guyana, the goal of their local content policy is to “maximize the level, quality, and benefits of participation in the petroleum sector value chain by Guyanese.” Guyana’s dynamic and rapidly progressing oil and gas development can create boundless opportunities for […]
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NRGBriefs: Ecopetrol Conf. Call
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Nov.2021) — Energy briefs including plans by Ecopetrol S.A. to host its 3Q:21 conf. call; Venture Global LNG and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) inking two 20yr sales and purchase agreements to supply 4 mt/a of LNG from Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG export facility; and more LATIN AMERICA […]
Frontera Energy Reveals 3Q:21 Results
(Frontera Energy, 3.Nov.2021) — Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) reported financial and operational results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2021. All financial amounts in this news release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise stated. Third Quarter Operational and Financial Results: The company is tightening and increasing its full-year operating EBITDA […]
Guyana To Auction New Oil Blocks By 3Q:22, VP Jagdeo Says
(Reuters, 2.Nov.2021) — Guyana plans to auction new blocks for offshore oil exploration by the third quarter of 2022, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said late on Monday. A consortium led by Exxon Mobil is responsible for all output in Guyana, Latin America’s new oil frontier, since the vast Stabroek block […]
Guyana Plots Shift To Natural Gas, Renewable Energy
(Reuters, 28.Oct.2021) — Guyana plans to meet an unprecedented growth expected in its power demand by building a new gas-fueled plant and expanding its hydropower capacity, a key step to leave behind fossil fuels for generating electricity, President Irfaan Ali said this week. Latin America’s newest oil producer on Thursday […]
NRGBriefs: Hess Says Liza Phase 2 On Track
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including Hess Corp. confirming that production from its Liza Phase 2 development in Guyana is on track to startup in early 2022; Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. entering into a share purchase agreement to indirectly acquire through the purchase of the shares […]
Hess Updates On Guyana Activities
(Hess, 27.Oct.2021) — At the Stabroek Block (Hess – 30%), the corporation’s net production from the Liza Field was 32,000 bopd in the third quarter of 2021 compared with 19,000 bopd in the prior year quarter. The Liza Unity FPSO, with an expected capacity of 220,000 gross bopd, arrived at […]
NRGBriefs: Liza Unity FPSO Reaches Guyana
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including the Liza Unity FPSO reaching Guyana’s prolific Stabroek Block; liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) reaching approximately 12mn users across Colombia; and more. LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Brazil –Brazil’s ANP published the complete version of the Brazilian Statistical Yearbook of Petroleum, Natural Gas […]
NRGBriefs: Colombia Eyes Net-zero Deforestation By 2030
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) announcing final results of a previously announced offer to purchase for cash outstanding notes due in 2023, 2024, and 2025; Colombia aiming to achieve net-zero deforestation by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050; Frontera Energy […]
Guyana – One Of The World’s Last Oil And Gas Frontiers
(The Geological Society of Trinidad, 21.Oct.2021) — ExxonMobil recently announced that their recoverable oil and gas resources in Guyana had reached an unbelievable ten billion barrels of oil equivalent. The first discovery was in 2015 and six years later Exxon and Guyana have achieved the unimaginable. Guyana accounts for 20 […]
NRGBriefs: Guyana Courts The UAE Or Vice Versa
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including details of Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali courting investors in the UAE; the repercussions in Caracas from the extradition of Alex Saab to Miami from Capo Verde, and Shell Trinidad and Tobago eyeing finally signing a PSC for development of the 2.7 Tcf […]
Frontera To Host Webcast On Guyana-Suriname Basin
(Frontera, 20.Oct.2021) — Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC), the majority shareholder of CGX Energy Inc. (TSXV: OYL) and joint venture partner in the Petroleum Prospecting Licenses for the Corentyne and Demerara blocks offshore Guyana will deliver an informational virtual presentation on the Guyana-Suriname basin, the offshore Corentyne block and the […]
Guyana Wants to Build a 135-Mile Undersea Gas Pipeline
(Bloomberg, 19.Oct.2021) — Guyana will likely become one of South America’s top oil producers over the next four years, but the world’s newest petrostate increasingly sees gas as the bedrock for growing its domestic economy. Work will begin on constructing a major gas-fired power plant in 2022 on the expectation […]
NRGBriefs: Renewable Energy Ops In The Caribbean
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including details of four renewable energy-exporting opportunities in the Caribbean in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana; TotalEnergies extending the contract for the Maersk Voyager in Angola for Ondjaba-1; and more. EVENTS — The Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum 2021 takes place from […]
NRGBriefs: ANH Talks About Colombia’s Gas Potential
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including comments from a webcast hosted by the ACIPET spanning speakers such as ANH head Armando Zamora as well as ANH’s José de Armas and Ecopetrol executive Maria Fernand Arango; Colombia’s massive gas potential onshore and offshore; ExxonMobil heard being close to reaching […]
Unipet Seeking To Open Gas station In Guyana
(Trinidad Guardian, 7.Oct.2021) — The United Independent Petroleum Marketing Company Limited (Unipet) has announced plans to build a US$4.9 million multi-purpose fuel station in Guyana. According to Unipet it is currently awaiting approval from the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to build a multi- purpose fuel facility at Pant ‘P’, […]
ExxonMobil Boosts Stabroek Resource Estimate
(ExxonMobil, 7.Oct.2021) — ExxonMobil increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to approximately 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels. The updated resource estimate includes a new discovery at the Cataback-1 well, which brings the total significant discoveries to more than 20 within the Stabroek Block. […]
Hess Boosts Resource Estimate for Stabroek Block
(Hess, 7.Oct.2021) — Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) announced an increase in the gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to approximately 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent, up from the previous estimate of more than 9 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The updated resource estimate includes another […]
Emerging Oil Markets on the Path to Net Zero
(News America, 5.Oct.2021) — This year, the world has become increasingly aware of a global energy shortage as well as the irreversible damages of climate change. Throughout Europe, gas prices have tripled due to a fall in inventory meeting a fast-recovering global economy. Reduced wind power, which accounts for roughly […]
Guyana Capturing Global Attention At Dubai Expo 2020
(DPI, 4.Oct.2021) — The Guyana Pavilion at the greatest international mega event – Expo 2020 Dubai – has seen scores of people from across the globe already showing their interest in the vast array of opportunities Guyana holds for investment. Making this disclosure is the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest). […]
Aramco Trading To Market Guyana’s Oil For One Year
(Stabroek News, 15.Sep.2021) — Already coming out with the best responsive bid during evaluation for the one-year contract to market Guyana’s oil, Saudi Arabian company, Aramco Trading Limited, was also awarded the single-lift slated for this month to avoid this country having to forfeit its one million barrels of crude, […]
Caricom On The Impact Of Venezuelan Political Parties Agreement On Guyana
(Caricom.org, 14.Sep.2021) — The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has taken note of the round of negotiations in Mexico and mediated by Norway between representatives of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the opposition, seeking to bring an end to the protracted multidimensional crisis afflicting that country. The Community […]
Keppel Delivers Guyana’s Second FPSO Liza Unity
(Keppel, 9.Sep.2021) — Keppel Offshore & Marine’s (Keppel O&M) wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel Shipyard Ltd delivered the Liza Unity, a mega Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO), to SBM Offshore with no loss-time incidents. This follows the delivery of Guyana’s first FPSO by Keppel O&M in 2019. Mr Chris Ong, […]
ExxonMobil Reports Discovery At Pinktail
(ExxonMobil, 9.Sep.2021) — ExxonMobil made a discovery at Pinktail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The Pinktail well encountered 220 feet (67 meters) of net pay in high quality hydrocarbon bearing sandstone reservoirs. In addition to successful appraisal of the Turbot discovery, the Turbot-2 well encountered 43 feet (13 meters) […]
Hess Reveals Oil Find At Pinktail, Offshore Guyana
(Hess, 9.Sep.2021) — Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) announced another oil discovery on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana at Pinktail. The Pinktail well encountered 220 feet (67 meters) of net pay in high quality oil bearing sandstone reservoir. Pinktail is located approximately 21.7 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of the Liza Phase […]
Saudi Aramco Unit Wins Guyana Oil Tender
(Reuters, 7.Sep.2021) — Guyana awarded a unit of Saudi Aramco a tender to purchase a portion of the country’s oil production, and the two parties will likely enter into a one-year marketing deal, an official said on Tuesday. ____________________ Reporting by Neil Marks in Georgetown. Writing by Luc Cohen; Editing […]
LatAm Briefs: Payara Progressing, Inpex Divestment In Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: ExxonMobil progressing its Payara project in Guyana for start-up in 2024 and Japan’s Inpex divesting assets in Venezuela, and much more. Argentina — Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp. (TSXV: LIT) (FSE: OAY3) (OTC: PNXLF) named […]
Eco Atlantic Provides Operational Update
(Eco Atlantic, 31.Aug.2021) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (AIM: ECO, TSX‐V: EOG) announced its results for the three months ended 30 June 2021, alongside a corporate and operational update. Results Highlights: Financials: — Cash and cash equivalents of $4.85mn (including restricted deposits) and no debt as of 30 […]
Partners Spud Sapote-1 Well In Canje Block
(Eco Atlantic, 31.Aug.2021) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (AIM: ECO, TSX‐V: EOG) announced that the Sapote-1 well on the Canje Block, offshore Guyana has been spudded. Eco was officially informed today by its investee company, JHI Associates Inc., about the spudding of the well. The Sapote-1 well is […]
AAPG’s Caribbean Symposium Event
(AAPG, 31.Aug.2021) — AAPG’s Latin America and Caribbean Region invites you to the 2021 “Caribbean Technical Symposium and E&P Summit: Recent Activity and Exploration Opportunities” to be held virtually on 14-15 September 2021. The 2-day virtual event combines two of the AAPG LACR’s most successful formats, a technical symposium including […]
C2 Communications Partners With Excel Guyana
(C2 Communications, 27.Aug.2021) — C2 Communications, a national award-winning public relations and marketing firm, has partnered with Excel Guyana, Inc. to raise awareness of the diverse business growth opportunities, infrastructure improvements and joint-venture construction projects needed to support Guyana’s oil and gas boom. For more than 30 years, the executive leadership […]
Gold Port Says Mining Permits Renewed
(Gold Port, 26.Aug.2021) — Gold Port Corporation (CSE: GPO) (OTCQB: GPOTF) is providing a corporate update. The Discovery 1 Core Rig ordered from Multi-Power Products Inc., of Kelowna, British Columbia, is nearing completion. The unit is expected to be ready for shipment by the end of the month. The custom […]
LatAm Briefs: Guyana’s Oil Output
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina awaiting arrival of two LNG tankers, Guyana’s oil output, and Trinidad and Tobago’s strategic plan. Argentina — Argentina’s two LNG import terminals at Bahía Blanca and Escobar both expect to receive tankers to discharge […]
Frontera Spuds Kawa-1 Offshore Guyana
(Frontera, 23.Aug.2021) — Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) announced the spudding of the Kawa-1 exploration well, offshore Guyana. CGX Energy Inc. (TSXV: OYL), Frontera majority-owned subsidiary, and its joint venture partner in the Demerara and Corentyne blocks, also separately announced an update on spud of the Kawa-1 well. Additionally, the […]
LatAm Briefs: Guyana-Suriname Basin Reserves
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina pondering its allocation of energy subsidies, Ecopetrol closing on an earlier announced $3.7bn ISA deal, reserves in the Guyana-Suriname Basin continuing to rise, and trafficking of coltan rising between Colombia and Venezuela, and much […]
Guyana, Suriname Eye Jointly Developments
(DPI, 19.Aug.2021) — Recognising the vast potential of Guyana and Suriname’s oil and gas sectors, their Excellencies Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Chandrikapersad Santokhi have indicated that the two countries will jointly strategise the development of this critical and lucrative sector. During engagements with the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and […]
Emerging Oil Nations Reject Climate Curbs On Exploration
(Reuters, 19.Aug.2021) — The world’s newest oil-producing nations grabbed the spotlight at this week’s Offshore Technology Conference with ambitious plans to tap oil and gas discoveries in a race against a global energy transition to lower-carbon fuels. At the conference highlighting renewable and cleaner-burning fuels and investors moving bets away […]
Exxon’s Guyana Drilling ‘Poses Major Environmental Risk’
(The Guardian, 19.Aug.2021) — ExxonMobil’s huge new Guyana project faces charges of a disregard for safety from experts who claim the company has failed to adequately prepare for possible disaster, the Guardian and Floodlight have found. Exxon has been extracting oil from Liza 1, an ultra-deepwater drilling operation, since 2019 […]
Guyana, Suriname Reveal Joint Gas Development Strategy
(S&P Global, 19.Aug.2021) — The presidents of Guyana and Suriname said Aug. 19 their countries will craft a joint strategy to develop their natural gas reserves to fuel their economic development, as well as to supply Brazil, their large southern neighbor. “Through the gas strategy, we will be working on […]
Guyana, Suriname Eye Further Drilling
(Reuters, 18.Aug.2021) — Guyana and Suriname expect continued exploratory drilling over the next two years by oil majors in their joint offshore basin after a string of recent discoveries, government officials and corporate executives said at a conference on Wednesday. The neighboring South American countries, along with Brazil, attracted the […]
Jagdeo: Developed Countries Must Help In Climate Fight
(DPI, 18.Aug.2021) — Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo MP, has issued a clarion call for developed countries to pull their weight in the fight against climate change. The Vice President made this appeal Tuesday night, during his feature address to the Rice University: Baker Institute Centre for Energy Studies with […]
Guyana Eyes Oil Developments, Rising Per Capita Income
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Aug.2021) — Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo took part in the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held in Houston between 16-19 August 2021. What follows are brief details from his discussion on 17 August during a panel entitled “Guyana: An Emerging Oil Industry in the Context of Net […]
Guyana Seeks Higher Royalties
(Reuters, 17.Aug.2021) — Guyana aims to increase its oil royalties and revamp other contract terms as part of a new profit-sharing agreement (PSA) for future crude and gas projects now in its draft stage, the South American nation’s vice president said on Tuesday. The tiny country has become one of […]
Guyana-Suriname Basin OTC2021 Technical Panel Summary
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Aug.2021) — Executives with ExxonMobil provided technical details of the company’s initial, current and planned activities in Guyana. What follows are excerpts from their presentations during the Offshore Technology Conference 2021 (16-19 August) in Houston, Texas. ExxonMobil, Audrey Varga — Outline of Guyana-Suriname exploration history: Standard Oil, […]
Guyana Contingent Attends #OTC2021
(DPI, 16.Aug.2021) — This is Guyana’s second time participating at this international conference in Houston, Texas. The Government of Guyana through GO-Invest, is collaborating with several private sector organisations and businesses which comprises its delegation at OTC 2021. The contingent comprises: Vice President, Hon. Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo; Minister of Foreign […]
LatAm Briefs: YPF Debt, Petrobras Taxes
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: YPF reducing its total debt, Petrobras’ tax collections to the government, Exxon’s Liza Unity FPSO prepares to leave Singapore, National Enterprises Limited (NEL) writes down the fair value of its indirect stake in Atlantic LNG […]
Guyana Creating New Authority For Oil Sector
(Argus, 12.Aug.2021) — Guyana plans to create a new authority by the end of 2021 to regulate its growing hydrocarbon revenues and allow orderly and transparent management and development of the sector, President Irfaan Ali said. The petroleum commission will also insulate the sector “from undue political interference” and remove […]
Oceaneering Inks Survey Deal With EEPGL
(Oceaneering, 10.Aug.2021) — Oceaneering International has been awarded a contract from Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) to provide two surveys offshore Guyana. The contract award covers a towed and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) geophysical survey and a shallow geotechnical survey off the coast of Guyana. Oceaneering will use […]
Guyana Opts Against LT Supply Deal With India
(Reuters, 10.Aug.2021) — Guyana’s Natural Resources Ministry said on Monday the country earned nearly $80 million from a July crude cargo sold to an Indian refiner, the highest figure since exports began in early 2020, though an official ruled out a long-term supply deal. Guyana sold the cargo of 1,047,820 […]
Guyana Receives Payment For 7th Oil Lift
(MNR, 9.Aug.2021) — In keeping with the current administration’s commitment to transparency and accountability within the Petroleum Sector, the Government Guyana through the Ministry of Natural Resources is pleased to announce that the payment for Guyana’s seventh oil lift was received into the Natural Resources Fund Account. On July 3rd, […]