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ExxonMobil Guyana Reports New Oil Find
(ExxonMobil, 15.Mar.2024) — ExxonMobil Guyana announced a discovery at Bluefin in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, the company’s first discovery of 2024. The Bluefin well [more…]
Guyana Is Trying to Keep Its Oil Blessing From Becoming a Curse
(Bloomberg, 15.Feb.2024) — Guyana has undergone a huge transformation in the near decade since a massive oil discovery off its shores. That’s on full display at the [more…]
Maduro to Permit Development in Disputed Territory
(Reuters, 5.Dec.2023) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he would authorize oil exploration in an area subject to a dispute with Guyana, which [more…]
FPSO Liza Unity Purchase by ExxonMobil Completed
(SBM, 9.Nov.2023) — SBM Offshore and ExxonMobil Guyana Limited, an affiliate of ExxonMobil Corporation, have completed the transaction related to the purchase of FPSO Liza Unity, [more…]
Denbury Shareholders Approve Merger with Exxon Mobil
(Reuters, 31.Oct.2023) — (DEN.N) said on Tuesday its shareholders approved the company’s merger with Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), with the deal closing expected on Nov. 2. Exxon Mobil [more…]
Hess Sanctions Uaru Development Offshore Guyana
(Hess, 27.Apr.2023) — Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) has made a final investment decision to proceed with Uaru, the fifth development on the Stabroek Block, after [more…]
Exxon Mobil Corp. Sued by EEOC for Race Discrimination
(US EEOC, 2.Mar.2023) — Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil Chemical Corporation, violated federal law when it failed to take effective measures to prevent [more…]
Mobil Launches 50% Post-consumer Recycled Plastic Pails in India
(ExxonMobil, 3.Feb.2023) — Mobil™, a global leader in lubrication technology innovation, has launched an initiative to encourage sustainable packaging with its 50% Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) [more…]
ExxonMobil Moves Forward with Largest Renewable Diesel Facility in Canada
(ExxonMobil, 26.Jan.2023) — ExxonMobil announced its majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil Ltd, will invest about $560mn to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel [more…]
Hess’ Guyana Developments and Low Breakeven Prices [PDF Download]
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Jan.2023) — Hess Corporation’s activities offshore Guyana in the Stabroek Block over the company exceptional reservoir quality and low development costs. The [more…]
Chad Contests Savannah Energy Acquisition of Exxon Mobil Assets
(Reuters, 13.Dec.2022) — Chad may ask its courts to block Savannah Energy‘s purchase of Exxon Mobil Corp‘s assets in the country, saying the final terms [more…]
NRGBriefs: XOM, OXY, CVX Dividends; Hess Guyana Liftings
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jul.2022) — Energy briefs including US Vice President Kamala Harris speaking with Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali about energy and other issues; [more…]
Hess Announces Two More Discoveries Offshore Guyana
(Hess, 26.Jul.2022) — Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) today announced two new discoveries at the Seabob-1 and Kiru-Kiru-1 wells on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The discoveries, which [more…]
Guyana Moves Ahead with Q3 Oil Block Auction
(Reuters, 25.Jul.2022) — Guyana’s government expects that an upcoming auction for oil and gas blocks will attract new companies to its energy industry, President Irfaan [more…]
Eni to Join Exxon, Total, Shell, Conoco in Qatar’s mega-LNG Expansion
(Reuters, 8.Jun.2022) — Italian producer Eni (ENI.MI) has been picked, along with another four oil majors, by Qatar as partners in the near $30 billion expansion of the world’s largest liquefied natural [more…]
Colombia Higher Court Rules Fracking Pilot Projects Can Go Ahead
(Reuters, 2.Jun.2022) — Investigative fracking operations in Colombia can go ahead after a court in the Andean country’s Santander province on Thursday reversed a lower [more…]
Shell Joins Exxon with $1bn Brazil Exploration Setback
(Bloomberg, 16.May.2022) — Expensive offshore exploration setbacks for international oil majors including Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. are throwing cold water on their plans [more…]
Hess Reveals Three New Finds Offshore Guyana, Boosts Resource Estimate
(Hess, 26.Apr.2022) — Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) announced an increase in the gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to approximately 11 billion barrels [more…]
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 [more…]
Guyana Re-launches Search For Co. To Market Govt’s Oil
(Reuters, 12.Jul.2021) — Guyana is re-launching a search for a company to market the government’s share of crude oil produced off the South American country’s [more…]
Venezuela Oil Czar Says Output To Skyrocket, Sanctions Be Damned
(Bloomberg, 21.Jun.2021) — In Venezuela, waiting in line at a gas station — sometimes for days — has become so routine that it’s hard to [more…]
Hess Eyes Higher, New Nameplate Capacity At Liza Destiny FPSO
(Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 26.May.2021) — The Liza Destiny floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit offshore Guyana in the Stabroek Block is expected [more…]
Exxon Activist Wins Partial Glass Lewis Support In Board Fight
(Bloomberg, 17.May.2021) — The activist seeking to revamp the board of Exxon Mobil Corp. received a boost Monday with another prominent shareholder advisory firm recommending [more…]
Exxon To Restart Gas Compressor At Guyana Platform In June
(Reuters, 14.May.2021) — Exxon Mobil Corp said on Friday it will reinstall a gas compressor at its Liza Destiny platform off Guyana’s coast in June, [more…]
U.S. Thirst For Russian Oil Hits Record High
(Bloomberg, 24.Mar.2021) — The oil tankers docking at the refinery in Baytown, Texas, look exactly like many others plying the waters of the Houston Ship [more…]
Exxon Mobil Declares 1Q:21 Dividend
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jan.2021) — Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.87 per share on [more…]
Suriname Latest Big Oil Find As Industry Cuts Costs
(The New York Times, 20.Jan.2021) — The small South American country has become a hot prospect for oil companies looking to produce fossil fuels while [more…]
Guyana Plans To Export 5-6 Crude Cargoes In 2021
(Argus, 22.Dec.2020) — Guyana plans to export “five to six” 1mn bl cargoes of its crude entitlement from the deepwater Stabroek block in 2021 to [more…]
Petronas Finds Hydrocarbon In Offshore Suriname
(Petronas, 11.Dec.2020) — Petronas through its subsidiary, Petronas Suriname E&P B.V. (PSEPBV) made its first discovery of hydrocarbon in Suriname with the successful drilling of [more…]
Exxon’s To Plug Tanager-1 Well Offshore Guyana
(Westmount, 17.Nov.2020) — Westmount Energy Ltd., further to the announcement by Ratio Petroleum Energy Limited Partnership dated today, that the Tanager-1 well, offshore Guyana, has [more…]
Exxon Guyana Conducts Maintenance Operations
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — ExxonMobil Guyana recently conducted maintenance on some oil spill response equipment located offshore the small South America country. “This maintenance [more…]
Guyana Says Getting Better Oil Deal
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Nov.2020) — The government of Guyana, the newest petro-state in the Latin America and Caribbean region, announced it has made strides in [more…]
ExxonMobil To Reduce US Staff Levels
(Exxon, 30.Oct.2020) — As part of an extensive global review announced earlier this year, the company plans to reduce staffing levels in the United States, [more…]
Exxon Mobil Corporation Declares 4Q:20 Dividend
(Exxon, 28.Oct.2020) — The Board of Directors of Exxon Mobil Corporation declared a cash dividend of $0.87 per share on the Common Stock, payable on [more…]
Quick Comparison: Liza 1 And Payara Developments
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Oct.2020) — Major differences in the licenses for the Liza Phase 1 and Payara developments offshore Guyana in the Stabroek Block as [more…]
Eleven Rigs Reactivated In The Vaca Muerta In Neuquén
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Oct.2020) — Argentina’s Neuquén Ministry of Energy data reveal 11 drilling rigs have been reactivated in the province, and all targeting the [more…]
Payara Licence A Major Improvement On Liza 1
(DPI, 3.Oct.2020) — The new licence issued to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) for the development of its Payara well features significant new clauses [more…]
Petrobras Finds Oil At Campos Basin Well
(Petrobras, 23.Sep.2020) — Petrobras found the presence of hydrocarbons in the pioneer well of block C-M-657, located in the pre-salt of the Campos Basin. Well [more…]
Stena Carron Arrives To Drill Tanager Prospect
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Sep.2020) — Ratio Guyana, an affiliate of Tel Aviv-based Ratio Petroleum, announced the arrival of the Stena Carron drillship to the Tanager [more…]
Rafael Ramirez: Venezuela Can Fix Its Own Oil Industry
(Argus, 8.Sep.2020) — Rafael Ramirez served as Venezuela’s oil minister from 2002-2013 and concurrent chief executive of state-owned PdV from 2004-2013, a tumultuous period marked [more…]
Big Oil Sees Major Potential In Suriname
(Oilprice.com, 7.Sep.2020) — Suriname is one of Latin America’s poorest countries. Up until July 2020, the former Dutch colony was mired in a political crisis [more…]
Guyana And Suriname To Benefit From Joining Forces
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Aug.2020) — Neighboring Guyana and Suriname in South America have been well off investor’s radars until recently. The countries are now regular [more…]
Payara, Payara, Payara!
(Kaieteur News, 13.Aug.2020) — Payara will be proof and pave the way. Payara could be the first plank toward petroleum prosperity. That delay pending review [more…]
Payara Permit Approval On Hold Until Expert Found
(Stabroek News, 12.Aug.2020) — In a key oil sector decision, President Irfaan Ali last evening said that his government is lobbying for technical and financial [more…]
Guyana Could Clear ExxonMobil’s Payara Project
(Argus, 11.Aug.2020) — Guyana’s new government will decide by the end of August whether to approve ExxonMobil’s 220,000 b/d Payara project, natural resources minister Vickram [more…]
Guyana Election Casts Shadow Over Oil Finds
(Forbes, 1.Aug.2020) — Hess Corp. reported more good news from its joint development of Guyana’s Stabroek Block with ExxonMobil and CNOOC on Thursday. The company [more…]
Vote Standoff Prolongs Guyana Uncertainty
(Argus, 13.Jul.2020) — Guyana’s political stalemate is prolonging uncertainty over the future management of the South American country’s fledgling oil sector, and raising the prospect [more…]
Argentina Puts Damper On Oil Demand, Production
(S&P Global Platts, 26.Jun.2020) — Argentina has extended a 99-day-old economic lockdown for three more weeks to try to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, [more…]
Guyana’s Crude Flow Drops On Technical Glitch
(Argus, 9.Jun.2020) — Guyana’s crude production has plunged by 65pc to 27,500 b/d from early May because of technical problems with compression equipment. “We do [more…]
Winds Shifting In Oil-rich Guyana, Suriname
(Argus, 8.Jun.2020) — Opposition parties pledging oil policy changes in Guyana and Suriname are close to taking power, but incumbents are signaling reluctance to step [more…]
Petronas Farms Down 50% In Block 52 to Exxon
(Petronas, 19.May.2020) — Petronas through its subsidiary, Petronas Suriname Exploration & Production B.V. (PSEPBV), has completed the farm-down of 50 per cent of its participating [more…]
Over 30 Cos Vie For Guyana Oil Trading Contract
(Reuters, 21.Apr.2020) — More than 30 companies, including commodities traders like Gunvor and Vitol as well as units of oil majors like Exxon Mobil and [more…]
Guyana Needs Protection From Selling Oil At A Loss
(Stabroek News, 14.Apr.2020) — Before we approve Payara and Hammer-head, let’s renegotiate the contract to include control of how much oil is being pumped given [more…]
Petrobras Finds Oil At Araucária Prospect
(Petrobras, 2.Apr.2020) — Petrobras informs that it has identified the presence of oil in the pioneer well of the Uirapuru block, located in the Santos [more…]
As Guyana Elections Remain Up In The Air
(News America, 8.Mar.2020) — As tension continues in Guyana one week after its general elections and a top court upheld an injunction blocking the elections [more…]
Guyana’s Burgeoning Oil Wealth Kindles Contract Row
(S&P Global Platts, 30.Jan.2020) — ExxonMobil’s growing oil discoveries offshore Guyana are amplifying domestic calls for a review of production-sharing contract terms on the eve [more…]
Hess Announces Oil Discovery At Uaru
(Hess, 27.Jan.2020) — Hess announced another oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Uaru well, the 16th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The company also announced [more…]
Guyana Searches For Firm To Trade Its Crude
(Reuters, 23.Jan.2020) — Guyana’s government next month plans to begin a search for an oil company or trading firm to market its share of the [more…]
CNOOC Says Liza Field Offshore Starts Production
(CNOOC, 20.Dec.2019) — CNOOC Limited announced 20 Dec. that Liza field offshore Guyana has safely commenced production ahead of schedule. Liza Phase 1 development project [more…]
ExxonMobil Plans 31-Well Program In Guyana
(Zacks Equity Research, 6.Dec.2019) — Exxon Mobil Corporation is planning to commence a 31-well exploration campaign offshore Guyana, per Argus. The company has submitted requests [more…]
Why ExxonMobil’s Guyana Success May Have Hurt Petrobras
(The Motley Fool, John Bromels, 20.Nov.2019) — Oil is a big business with even bigger money attached. That’s why governments that control oil assets are [more…]
Saipem Inks Subsea Contract In Guyana
(Saipem, 14.Nov.2019) — Milan-based Saipem has been awarded a subsea contract by ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) for the proposed Payara [more…]
Rosneft Cool On Venezuela’s Sweeter Gas Terms, For Now
(Argus, 6.Nov.2019) — Venezuela is offering sweeter fiscal terms to Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft for two offshore natural gas fields that are well-positioned to supply nearby [more…]
Brazil’s $50bn Oil Boom Is Falling Apart
(Oilprice.com Julianne Geiger, 31.Oct.2019) — Exxon may not be interested in stepping up to the bidding plate at Brazil’s massive $50 billion transfer of rights [more…]
ANP 16th Round Attracts Record R$8.9bn Signings
(ANP, 10.Oct.2019) — The 16th Bidding Round collected R$ 8.9 billions in signature bonuses, a record value among the concession rounds already held in Brazil. [more…]
Exxon Mobil Bars Use Of Oil Tankers Linked To Venezuela
(Reuters, Jonathan Saul and Collin Eaton, 4.Oct.2019) — Exxon Mobil Corp this week banned the use of vessels linked to oil flows from Venezuela in [more…]
Guyana Must Learn To Use Its Riches
(Upstream, Gareth Chetwynd, 26.Sep.2019) — As development on Guyana’s Stabroek block continues apace, it is worth considering that the Liza development took form in an [more…]
Four Colombia fracking Projects Could Attract $5bn In Yearly Investments
(Reuters, 24.Sep.2019) — Four fracking pilot projects in Colombia could bring in $5 billion annually in investment once they are in the production phase, industry [more…]
Hess Says Liza Destiny FPSO Arrives Offshore Guyana
(Hess, 29.Aug.2019) — Hess Corporation announced that the Liza Destiny, Guyana’s first oil production vessel, has arrived at the Stabroek Block. The Floating, Production, Storage [more…]
Suriname Seeking Funds for Offshore Exploration
(Reuters, 16.Aug.2019) — Suriname’s state-owned oil company is planning a bond sale next year to finance offshore oil exploration, its chief executive said on Thursday, [more…]
Guyana Find Progresses Amid Political Tensions
(Forbes, David Blackmon, 29.Jul.2019) — Nothing is ever easy or simple in the world of international offshore oil and gas development. That axiom is proving [more…]
US’ Refineries Need Mexican Crude Oil
(CNN, Matt Egan, 5.Jun.2019) — The Trump administration’s threatened tariffs on Mexico couldn’t come at a worse time for America’s oil refineries. Mexico is the [more…]
Hess Sanctions Liza Phase 2 Development Offshore Guyana
(Hess, 3.May.2019) — Hess Corporation today announced it has received regulatory approval from the government of Guyana and has made a final investment decision to [more…]
CNOOC Limited Announces Key 1Q:19 Operational Statistics
(CNOOC Ltd. 25Apr.2019) — CNOOC Limited announced its key operational statistics for the first quarter of 2019. The Company achieved a total net production of [more…]
Qatar Petroleum Wins Exploration Rights In 5 Offshore Blocks In Argentina
(Qatar Petroleum, 16.Apr.2019) — Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in five offshore blocks in the North Argentina, and Malvinas West basins in Argentina. The [more…]
