Exxon And Petronas Find Oil Offshore Suriname

(Exxon, 11.Dec.2020) — ExxonMobil and Petronas have discovered hydrocarbons at the Sloanea-1 exploration well on Block 52 offshore Suriname, adding to ExxonMobil’s extensive finds in […]

Fact Box: History Of Esso Trading Name

(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Oct.2020) — Esso is a trading name for Irving, Texas-based ExxonMobil and its related companies. The company started off as Standard Oil […]

Venezuela Economy To Shrink 25% In 2020: IMF

(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Oct.2020) — Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves and sizable natural gas and mineral deposits, is expected to be the […]

China Slams Pompeo For ‘Arrogance’ On LatAm Tour

(Reuters, 18.Sep.2020) — China’s embassy to Suriname on Friday accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of “smearing” Beijing, after Washington’s top diplomat critiqued Chinese […]

US$210bn Of New Spend In Firing Line

(WoodMac, 2.Apr.2020) — The oil price crash has hit the upstream sector hard. Deep cuts are being made across the board, but it will have […]

Barbados, T&T Gas Search

(Caribbean Life, George Alleyne, 25.Oct.2019) — In what may be emerging as a Caribbean energy triangle of sorts, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago have signed […]

Guyana: The World’s Next Offshore Oil Hotspot

(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, […]