Guyana With No Plans To Cut Oil Output Amid Price Drop
(Reuters, 4.May.2020) — Guyana has no plans to cut crude output despite a plunge in oil prices, the government’s top energy official said on Monday, adding that shutting down production...
Guyana Crude Brings In Nearly $5mn For Govt
(Argus, 4.May.2020) — The government of burgeoning Latin American oil producer Guyana received $4.9mn in its first oil and gas royalty payment from gross production to date, deposited on 28...
ExxonMobil Delays Some Guyana Oil Drilling
(Argus, 7.Apr.2020) — ExxonMobil is deferring some longer-term offshore drilling in Guyana as a result of capital spending cuts, "creating a potential delay in production start-up of six to 12...
Oil Making Guyana Wealthy But Intensifying Tensions
(The New York Times, 7.Apr.2020) — On a sprawling abandoned sugar estate by the coast of Guyana, the scale of the changes sweeping across the country is immediately visible. In...
Political Battle Could Jeopardize Oil Boom
(Oilprice.com, 6.Apr.2020) — Amidst the torrent of news on the adverse impacts of COVID-19, recent developments in Guyana stand out as something of a countercurrent. In times when the entire...
Guyana’s New Oil Economy Under Pressure
(Bloomberg, 24.Mar.2020) — When Exxon Mobil Corp. came to Guyana, the US oil giant brought with it the promise of extraordinary economic growth. Now the tiny South American country is...
Exxon, Guyana Head Toward Uncertain Future
(OilandGas360.com, 20.Mar.2020) — They are the odd couple of the global oil patch: Guyana is a poor former British sugar colony. Exxon Mobil is America’s largest oil company. They came...
Total Renounces Rights To Deep Water Mexican Block
(Reuters, 20.Mar.2020) — Mexico’s oil regulator approved on Friday a request by French oil company Total SA to give up its exploration and production rights to a deep water block...
Guyana Court Halts Release Of Election Results
(Reuters, 8.Mar.2020) — Guyana’s top court on Sunday upheld an injunction blocking the elections commission from proclaiming a winner in this month’s presidential election, delaying the results of a vote...
Guyana Elects Leader As Vast Oil Boom Dawns
(AP, 4.Mar.2020) — Guyana voted for a new government on Monday in a bruising fight for control of a tiny South American country whose oil revenues in the next decade...
Guyana Holds Crucial March Election
(Aljazeera, 2.Mar.2020) — Guyana's economy is expected to be transformed by oil and gas discovered off the poor South American country’s shores. Voters in Guyana will head to the polls...
Guyana To Export First Share Of Oil-Official
(Reuters, 12.Feb.2020) — Guyana is getting ready to export in the coming days the first cargo of Liza crude entitled to the government as share of the oil produced by...
Noble Announces Deal With ExxonMobil
(Noble, 11.Feb.2020) — Noble Corporation plc and ExxonMobil today announced the execution of a unique commercial enabling agreement for drilling services in the Guyana-Suriname Basin. The agreement defines contract terms...
Guyana Aims To Agree To Oil Prices With Exxon
(Reuters, 10.Feb.2020) — Guyana is aiming to complete talks with the Exxon Mobil Corp-led consortium producing oil off its coast over crude pricing, lifting costs, and scheduling before the government...
Watchdog: Exxon Guyana Deal ‘Exploitative’
(Forbes, 5.Feb.2020) — As ExxonMobil kicks off production on the world’s largest emerging oil projects, debate has intensified over the terms of contracts signed between the global oil giant and...
ExxonMobil Makes Fresh Guyana Discovery
(Petroleum Economist, 31.Jan.2020) — Guyanese offshore success in recent years has become almost synonymous with US giant ExxonMobil—the hot streak of oil discoveries achieved in the country’s waters has added...
Equinor Awarded Brazilian Contracts
(Equinor, 30.Jan.2020) — Equinor has, on behalf of the partners ExxonMobil and Petrogal Brasil entered into Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts with early commitments and pre-investments for phase...
ExxonMobil Ups Guyana Recoverable Resources
(ExxonMobil, 27.Jan.2020) — ExxonMobil has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion oil-equivalent barrels and made a further oil discovery northeast of the producing...
Guyana – The World’s Newest Oil Producer
(IHSMarkit, 24.Jan2020) — In an environment of oil supply glut, a new player entered the scene. Guyana, a nation bordering Venezuela and Brazil - two countries with large oil reserves...
Oil Tanker Arrives To Export Guyana’s First Oil Lift
(Jamaica Observer, 19.Jan.2020) — The Marshall Islands registered crude oil tanker, Yannis P , has arrived here as the country will soon lift the first one million barrels of crude...
Soesdyke Youth First To Test Guyana’s Oil
(Stabroek News, 16.Jan.2020) — A Guyanese offshore laboratory technician will go down in history as the person to test the first sample of Guyanese crude oil as it came through...
Argentina President Sees Potential In Conventionals
(S&P Global Platts, 13.Jan.2020) — Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez said he plans to encourage the development of conventional oil and natural gas reserves, not just the shale resources in the...
Exxon’s Guyana Oil recovery Ramps Up Rating
(Stabroek News, 3.Jan.2020) — The commencement by ExxonMobil less than a fortnight ago of oil recovery from what is now firmly categorized as a “world class” oil find inside its...
Bayphase Ltd. To Evaluate Payara Oil Field Plans
(Stabroek News, 1.Jan.2020 — The Department of Energy (DE) has awarded a consultancy to Bayphase Ltd for the evaluation of plans for the development of ExxonMobil’s Payara oil field. Payara...
ExxonMobil Reports 15th Guyana Find At Mako-1 Well
(Exxon, 23.Dec.2019) — ExxonMobil said today it made an oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking the 15th discovery on the Stabroek Block....
Production Begins In Guyana
(Exxon, 23.Dec.2019) — Today marks the start of a powerful new chapter in Guyana. On December 20, 2019, the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Liza Destiny began producing...
Oil Boom Begins In Guyana
(Bloomberg, 23.Dec.2019) — Exxon Mobil Corp. and its partners produced the first commercial crude from Guyana, setting the small South American nation on a path to potentially vast flows of...
ExxonMobil Starts Oil Production In Guyana
(Exxon, 20.Dec.2019) — ExxonMobil announced that oil production has started from the Liza field offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first discovery of hydrocarbons,...
Quality Testing Guyana’s First 3 MMbbls
(Demerara Waves, Denis Chabrol, 16.Dec.2019) — The Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Energy denied breaching the procurement process for sale of Guyana’s first three million barrels of oil aimed...
Guyana Seeks Buyers For Govt’s Oil Output Share
(Reuters, 15.Dec.2019) — Guyana has invited companies interested in purchasing the first three deliveries of the government’s share of the country’s looming oil production to present bids this week, the...
Traders Flock To Burgeoning Petrostate Guyana
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 13.Dec.2019) — Oil traders are packing their bags for a trip to the world’s newest petrostate -- a place they know remarkably little about. At least half...
Guyana On Brink Of Unimaginable Oil Wealth
(IB Times, Palash Ghosh, 4.Dec.2019) — Ahead of this week’s meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna, the tiny South American nation of Guyana will likely...
Oil Brightens Guyana’s Prospects
(CaribNews, Mellany P., 28.Nov.2019) — President David Granger said Wednesday that the emerging petroleum industry provides an “exciting economic and enterprising development” for Guyana and will enhance economic growth by...
Producers Delay Boosting Vaca Muerta Output
(S&P Global Platts, 20.Nov.2019) — Three leading oil companies in Argentina, buoyed by the quality of the shale resources, are ready to ramp up oil and natural gas production in...
Exxon, Shell To Delay Vaca Muerta Production
(Seeking Alpha, Carl Surran, 20.Nov.2019) — Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell say they want to ramp up oil and natural gas production in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale play but...
ExxonMobil To Take 1st MMbbls Of Oil
(Guyana Times, 7.Nov.2019) — With oil production expected to begin later this month, ExxonMobil will be getting the first shipment of oil, while Guyana will have to wait until sometime...
Exxon, Hess Move Up Guyana First Oil Date
(Chron.com, Jordan Blum, 30.Oct.2019) — Exxon Mobil and Hess Corp. said they are moving up the start date for first oil production in Guyana to December instead of the previous...
The Atlantic Is Key To Colombia’s Energy Needs
(FT.com, Gideon Long, 28.Oct.2019) — Colombia’s proven oil reserves will run out within the next seven years and its gas reserves within 10. Faced with that bleak prospect, it needs...
Priciest Oil Auction Could Raise $50bn in Brazil
(Bloomberg, Sabrina Valle, 21.Oct.2019) — An auction next month of oilfields in Brazil may be the priciest ever held, raising at least $50 billion in licensing fees and compensation, according...
Guyana Key Elections To Come Ahead Of First Oil
(Argus, 26.Sep.2019) ) — Guyana will hold parliamentary elections on 2 March 2020, around the time that ExxonMobil plans to launch offshore oil production that promises to transform the economy...
Colombia Fracking Pilots Could Start In Late 2020: Ecopetrol CEO
(Reuters, Jessica Resnick-Ault, 25.Sep.2019) — Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol will be ready to start fracking pilot projects in the second half of 2020, chief executive Felipe Bayon said on...
Diplomats Say Guyana Gov’t In Breach Of Constitution
(Reuters, 19.Sep.2019) — U.S. and European diplomats on Thursday declared Guyana's government in breach of the country's constitution until new elections are held and called on Guyanese President David Granger...
ExxonMobil Reports Tripeltail Find Offshore Guyana
(Exxon, 16.Sep.2019) — ExxonMobil made an oil discovery on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana at the Tripletail-1 well in the Turbot area. The discovery adds to the previously announced estimated...
Building Guyana’s Destiny
(Exxon, 9.Sep.2019) — Finding the next big discovery is only a small part of the story when it comes to energy. Delivering that new energy source to those who need...
Maduro Targets Guaido Over Guyana
(Argus, 6.Sep.2019) — Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro ordered state prosecutors to lodge treason charges against opposition leader Juan Guaido for allegedly agreeing to relinquish Venezuela's century-old territorial claim to the...
Liza Destiny Arrives In Guyana
(Argus, 2.Sep.2019) — Guyana received its first floating, production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Liza Destiny in anticipation of ExxonMobil's production launch in March 2020. Liza Destiny. Source: ExxonMobil The...
Liza Destiny FPSO Moves To Offshore Guyana
(Zacks, 30.Aug.2019 ) — Hess Corporation recently announced the arrival of Liza Destiny — an oil production vessel — at the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana. Notably, this is Guyana’s first...
Suriname’s State Oil Entity Plans Bond Issuance
(Reuters, Ank Kuipers, 15.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, as it seeks...
South America’s Guyana Enters The Oil Age
(Kevin Ramnarine, 18.Jul.2019) — In February 2017, I captioned an article about the Guyana-Suriname basin, The New North Sea, comparing ExxonMobil’s discoveries in Guyana to discoveries in the Norwegian North...
Guyana Election Heightens Political Risk For Operators
(Energy Voice, Ryan Stevenson, 21.Jun.2019) — Guyana is due to hold a general election later this year that could have a significant bearing on the country’s emergence as a new...
Argentina Eyes Exporting Oil In 2020, Lopetegui Says
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 14.Jun.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Gustavo Lopetegui highlighted investments announced by Exxon Mobil destined for the massive development the Bajo del Choique - La Invernada...
Irving-Texas’ ExxonMobil Decides To Develop Argentina’s Oil Block
(Zacks, 12.Jun.2019) — Exxon Mobil Corporation XOM recently announced its decision to develop an oil project in Argentina. The long-term project will be conducted in the Bajo del Choique-La Invernada...
Mexico’s Fuel Market To Be More competitive in 2020
(Platts, 10.Jun.2019) — Mexico's already liberalizing fuel market will become far more competitive in 2020 as several private midstream projects start operations, multiple oil company executives say. Infrastructure shortages has...
Eco Reports Mobilization Of Stena Forth Drillship To Orinduik Block, Guyana
(Eco Atlantic, 10.Jun.2019) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. announced mobilisation of the Stena Forth drillship which is now en route to Guyana from West Africa where it has...
Guyana State Agency Reveals Details Of Oil Blocks Probe
(AP, Bert Wilkinson, 29.May.2019) — Guyana's State Assets Recovery Agency said Wednesday it has launched an investigation into whether corruption played a role in the previous government's 2015 decision to...
Guyana Investigates Oil Block Leases Controlled By Exxon
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 23.May.2019) — The world’s newest offshore hotspot, Guyana, is in the early stages of a probe into how oil exploration rights were awarded for oil blocks that...
Rovuma LNG Development Plan Approved By Mozambique Government
(Eni, 14.May.2019) — Mozambique Rovuma Venture said today that the government of Mozambique had approved its development plan for the Rovuma LNG project, which will produce, liquefy and market natural...
SBM Offshore Awarded Contracts For ExxonMobil FPSO Liza Unity
(SBM, 10.May.2019) — SBM Offshore announced that Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has confirmed the award of contracts for the next phase...
ExxonMobil Inks 20-year LNG Deal With Zhejiang Energy
(Exxon, 22.Apr.2019) — ExxonMobil said today that it signed a sales and purchase agreement with Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply. Under the agreement, Zhejiang Energy...
ExxonMobil Announces 13th Discovery Offshore Guyana
(ExxonMobil, 18.Apr.2019) — ExxonMobil said it made a new oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Yellowtail-1 well, marking the 13th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The discovery adds to the...
ExxonMobil Argentina Takes Three Blocks In Offshore Bid Round
(Exxon, 16.Apr.2019) — ExxonMobil has increased holdings in Argentina after its subsidiary ExxonMobil Argentina Offshore Investments B.V. and an affiliate of Qatar Petroleum won three exploration blocks during Argentina’s first...
Exxon Mobil Wins Three Exploration Blocks Offshore Argentina
(Reuters, 16.Apr.2019) — U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp said on Tuesday its unit and an affiliate of Qatar Petroleum had won three exploration blocks offshore Argentina. The three blocks...
US Acknowledges Guyana’s Right To Renegotiate Exxon Deal If It So Chooses
(Stabroek News, 10.Apr.2019) — The United States acknowledges that it is within Guyana’s sovereign right to renegotiate the controversial Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between the country and ExxonMobil and its...
ExxonMobil: Guyana Project Overview
(Exxon, 14.Feb.2019) — ExxonMobil initiated oil and gas exploration activities in Guyana in 2008, collecting and evaluating substantial 3-D seismic data that led to the company safely drilling its first...
ExxonMobil Starts Drilling Haimara-1 Exploration Well Offshore Guyana
(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...
ExxonMobil Faces Off With Venezuela’s Navy
(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...
ExxonMobil Recaps Events In Guyana, Mexico, And Brazil
(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,...
LatAmNRG Briefs: Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad
(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...
Hess Updates On Portfolio Progress, Guyana
(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...
Guyana To Open Diplomatic Missions In UAE And Ethiopia Amid Energy Boom
(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...
LatAmNRG Briefs: Argentina, Chile, Guyana
(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...
Guyana Oil Output Could Surpass Venezuela, Mexico: WoodMac
(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...
CGX And Frontera Announce Strategic JV Agreement In Guyana
(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...
LatAmNRG Briefs: Argentina, Chile, Trinidad, Venezuela
(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...
Argentina Authorizes Additional Gas Exports To Chile
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 3.Dec.2018) — Subsidiaries of US-based ExxonMobil and Germany-based Wintershall in Argentina were authorized to export conventional natural gas to Chile. Details of the deals were...