(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 7.Feb.2019) — TT energy companies are being encouraged to sign up for a chance to be a part of Guyana’s oil and gas exploration...
(ExxonMobil, 6.Feb.2019) — The discoveries build on the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek block. Tilapia-1 is the fourth discovery in...
(Marla Dukharan, 4.Feb.2019) — The worst humanitarian crisis in Latin American history has for years been festering in our backyard, with spillovers both good and (mostly) bad for the Caribbean....
(Frontera, 1.Feb.2019) — CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera Energy Corporation announced execution of a farm-in joint venture agreement covering CGX’s two shallow water offshore Petroleum Prospecting Licenses in Guyana, the...
(Stabroek News, Phil Miller, 28.Jan.2019) — Guyana’s High Commission in London threw open its doors on Thursday night to tell investors about the country’s newly discovered oilfields. Tellingly, the event...
(Dialogo Chino, Mat Youkee 28.Jan.2019) — The Rupununi savannah of southern Guyana is one of the most biodiverse regions of South America, home to jaguars, Harpy eagles and the world’s...
(Stabroek News, 28.Jan.2019) — With first oil expected by year end or early 2020, the Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday said it supports the use of the expected revenue to...
(WoodMac, 25.Jan.2019) — CNOOC Ltd announced its strategic plan for 2019, setting a bullish tone for the rest of the Chinese national oil companies to follow. Wood Mackenzie’s senior analyst...
(Department of Public Information, Synieka Thorne, 22.Jan.2019) — Consolidated Supply Management (CSM) and Danco Logistical Contractors Incorporated have announced the merger of their resources to create Guyana’s third shore base...
(Rystad, 17.Jan.2019) — While Hamlet’s famous ‘to be or not to be’ questioned the existential, E&P’s will look to answer more concrete questions this year when evaluating projects for sanctioning....
(Tullow, 16.Jan.2019) — Tullow Oil plc issues this statement to summarise recent operational activities and to provide trading guidance in respect of the financial year to 31 December 2018. This...
(Frontera Energy, 15.Jan.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation announced that as at January 14, 2019 it has repurchased for cancellation 2,062,885 shares at an average cost of C$14.20 per share for...
(Frontera Energy, 15.Jan.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation will host an investor and analyst day on Thursday February 7, 2019 from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. in Bogota which will be...
(Frontera Energy, 15.Jan.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation announces an operational update. All values in this news release and the company’s financial disclosures are in United States dollars, unless otherwise noted....
(CMC, 11.Jan.2019) — Venezuela has disputed Guyana’s account of what Georgetown said was the dangerous incursion into local waters after a Norwegian ship hired by ExxonMobil was “intercepted” by a...
(Frontera Energy, 11.Jan.2019) — CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera Energy Corporation have further amended a letter agreement previously disclosed in a news release of CGX and Frontera on December 4,...
(Reuters, Neil Marks, 10.Jan.2019) — Seismic research vessels hired by Exxon Mobil to explore for oil off Guyana’s coast have not yet returned to the site of a December incident...
(ExxonMobil, 7.Jan.2019) — ExxonMobil has begun drilling the Haimara-1 exploration well offshore Guyana, the first of two planned wells in January. The Stena Carron drillship is drilling the well, which...
(Jamaica Observer, Bruce Golding, 6.Jan.2019) — From a distance, Guyana has seemed poised for an era of unprecedented development and prosperity. Since 2015 it has confirmed 10 offshore oil wells...
(Reuters, Neil Marks, 3.Jan.2019) — Guyana’s government will challenge in court a parliamentary no-confidence vote that toppled President David Granger’s ruling coalition amid a dispute over developing the country’s nascent...
(Eco Atlantic, 1.Jan.2019) — The 1800km2 Orinduik Block is situated in shallow water (70 – 1,400m), 170 km offshore Guyana in the Suriname Guyana basin, and is located 11km up-dip...
(Oilprice.com, Nick Cunningham, 27.Dec.2018) — Last Friday, the Guyanese government fell after a no-confidence vote, a move that likely was viewed as an opportune moment of weakness in Caracas. A...
(ExxonMobil, 26.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil said today that drilling and development operations offshore Guyana are unaffected by an incident involving seismic acquisition vessels on Saturday. Two vessels operated by Petroleum Geo-Services...
(Reuters, 25.Dec.2018) — Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Tuesday described as “interventionist and disrespectful” U.S. comments on a weekend incident in which the country’s navy stopped two ships exploring for oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc, a global provider of contract drilling services with a fleet of 25 mobile offshore drilling units, composed of 21 self-elevating...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc, with a fleet that operates worldwide, including the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 24.Dec.2018) — Exxon has suspended exploration activities in the western part of the Stabroek block offshore Guyana after the Venezuelan Navy intercepted this weekend two exploratory vessels...
(Reuters, 24.Dec.2018) — Exxon Mobil and a seismic research company it hired to search for oil off the coast of Guyana declined on Monday to say when they might resume...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Argentina’s renewable energy sector, Maurel & Prom’s acquisition of Shell’s interest in the Urdaneta West...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil was named 2018 Large Cap Company of the Year and Explorer of the Year by the World Oil and Gas Council in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Dec.2018) — Irving, Texas-based ExxonMobil announced a recap of some of its most important activities during the year in the Latin America and Caribbean region,...
(DemeraraWaves, Denis Chabrol, 20.Dec.2018) ) — Guyana has spent GYD$780 million (US$3.7 million) from the US$18 million signing bonus from ExxonMobil on legal fees for the settlement of the border...
(Rowan, 18.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc announced that the Ralph Coffman, a 240-C Class harsh environment jack-up rig, has been awarded a one-well contract from CGX Resources in Guyana for...
(Chron.com, Jordan Blum, 17.Dec.2018) — The small South American nation Guyana led the way in 2018 for new oil and gas discoveries followed by Russia and the United States as...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 13.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from South America’s Guyana, which expects first oil to start flowing in...
(Reuters, 12.Dec.2018) — U.S. oil and gas producer Hess Corp. said Dec. 12 it expects output of barrels of oil equivalent to grow more than 10% per year compounded through...
(Hess Corporation, 12.Dec.2018) — Hess Corporation provided a detailed update on progress in executing its strategy for long term value creation at its Investor Day today in Houston. The company’s...
(Hart Energy, Velda Addison, 11.Dec.2018) — When it comes to navigating the intricacies of the unknown, Tullow Oil is considered an expert, particularly in Africa where it has discovered over...
(Caribbean News Now, Ray Chickrie, 11.Dec.2018) — Before the end of the first quarter of 2019, Guyana plans to open a diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Piero Stewart, 6.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from up and coming shale producer Argentina, Chile, and tiny Guyana, which awaits...
(Atlantic, 5.Dec.2018) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (EOG), the oil and gas exploration company with licences in highly prospective regions in Guyana and Namibia, is pleased to announce...
(JWN, Deborah Jaremko, 5.Dec.2018) — Thanks 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...
(Frontera Energy Corporation, 4.Dec.2018) — CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera Energy Corporation entered into a letter agreement to enable CGX to finance the drilling costs related to two shallow water...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Aaron Simonsky, 3.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from OPEC’s Venezuela and Southern Cone shale gas producer Argentina. Argentina Authorizes...
(Guyana Dept. Of Public Information, 3.Dec.2018) — Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe this morning announced that United States oil giant ExxonMobil has made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana...
(ExxonMobil, 3.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil said today it made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana and increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to more than 5...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Nov. 2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from Caribbean crude oil and natural gas producer and LNG exporting Trinidad and Tobago,...
(Stabroek News, 14.Nov.2018) — The Department of Energy (DoE) has to date received no credible reports of any form of corruption as it relates contractors and deals in the nascent...
(CMC, 12.Nov.2018) — Finance Minister Winston Jordan has given an insight into the campaign for the 2020 general elections in Guyana telling voters that the oil sector will feature prominently...
(Guyana Department of Public Information, 12.Nov.2018) — Prime Minister Hon. Moses V. Nagamootoo held discussions with a high-level, five-member team from the World Bank, which is visiting Guyana at the...
(Oilprice.com, Viktor Katona, 12.Nov.2018) — I know what you think – such a headline is quite reckless given that Guyana has not produced any oil so far and it is...
(Houston Chronicle, James Osborne, 2.Nov.2018) — Almost 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, off the northern coastline of South America, Exxon Mobil is drilling one of the...
(DemeraraWaves, 31.Oct.2018) — Finance Minister, Winston Jordan on Wednesday hinted that government workers would receive salary increases when in 2020 when Guyana begins producing oil estimated to rake in about...
(Hart Energy, Velda Addison, Senior Editor, 31.Oct.2018) — Partners Exxon Mobil, Hess Corp. and CNOOC Nexen Petroleum are making progress toward development of the hydrocarbon bounty discovered offshore Guyana. “This...
(DemeraraWaves, 31.Oct.2018) — Police in Grenada have confirmed that a Guyanese man died aboard the MV Ocean Trader – a Guyanese registered ship- that was docked in Grenada last weekend....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Oct.2018) — China’s CNOOC Limited announced that success in Guyana has laid the foundation for future development. “Successful drilling of Longtail Structure and Hammerhead Structure...
(Demerara Waves, Denis Chabro, 26.Oct.2018) — Two days after Minister of State, Joseph Harmon rebuffed a Demerara Waves Online News report on responsibilities for Guyana’s oil and gas, the Official...
(ProactiveInvestor, 26.Oct.2018) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd has started to look for a new partner for the Cooper Block in Namibia after Tullow Oil pulled out. Tullow will...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 23.Oct.2018) — With population of fewer than 750,000 people, Guyana—a neighbor of Venezuela—has always depended on commodities. Sugar, gold, shrimp, timber, bauxite, and rice account for nearly...
(Stabroek News, 17.Oct.2018) — Representatives of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management have met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Guyana after recently indicating an interest in engaging in discussions...
(Stabroek News, 13.Oct.2018) — The Guyana government and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador will be signing a technical cooperation agreement on oil and gas in the coming week,...
(Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources, 12.Oct.2018) — The Guyana Oil and Gas Capacity Building Project (the ‘Project’) is supported by the World Bank and aims to enhance the Government’s capacity...
(The National, Robin Mills, 8.Oct.2018) — One of the few major new conventional oil provinces discovered this century could see the country emerge as the top per capita producer. Who...
(Shawcor Ltd. 4.Oct.2018) — Shawcor Ltd. (SCL) announced that its pipe coating division has been assigned work from Saipem valued at approximately C$110 million to provide thermal insulation and anticorrosion...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Sep.2018) — The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago will host a forum in Guyana in November 2018, to share experiences from Trinidad’s energy sector...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 20.Sep.2018) — The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago announced its agreement with an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the governments of Guyana and...
(Office of the T&T Prime Minister, 19.Sep.2018) — Prime Minister Dr the Honourable Keith Rowley and President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana His Excellency Brigadier David Granger signed a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 14.Sep.2018) — Kosmos Energy continues to explore new basin potential outside of Africa. In December 2011, Kosmos secured a position offshore Suriname, marking the company’s...
(OffshoreEnergyToday, 13.Sep.2018) — French oil major Total has exercised its option to acquire a 25 percent working interest in the Orinduik block offshore Guyana after a competent persons report identified...
(Stabroek News, 7.Sep.2018) — Former presidential advisor Jan Mangal has warned that while cash payouts from oil revenue may have an important role to play in the future, at this...
(Stabroek News, 6.Sep.2018) — The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Energy Sector Cooperation between the governments of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, paving the way for cooperation...
(Stabroek News, 6.Sep.2018) — Dear Editor: How could we have billions of barrels of oil in 2018 and not be able to pay our teachers a living wage? The value...
(Reuters, 5.Sep.2018) — 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 licence bordering discoveries...
(Reuters, 5.Sep.2018) — 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 licence bordering discoveries...