ExxonMobil’s Payara Celebrates 100 MMbbls of Oil Produced in Just 15 Months

HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Feb.2025) — ExxonMobil Corporation, which operates the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, celebrated 100 million barrels (MMbbls) of oil produced from its Payara project, the company announced 13 Feb. 2025 on social media. Payara, ExxonMobil’s third development offshore Guyana, started up just 15 months […]

Chevron Eyes More Non-core Asset Divestments, Wirth Says

(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Nov.2024) — California-based Chevron Corporation plans to continue to divest non-core assets as part of its ongoing portfolio optimization efforts. This, as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) completed its review of Chevron’s merger with New York City-based Hess Corporation, and as the company recently announced several other […]

Hess BODs Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Sep.2024) — The Board of Directors of Hess Corporation declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.50/share payable on the common stock of the corporation on 30 Sep. 2024 to holders of record at the close of business on 16 Sep. 2024. The dividend represents a 14% increase vs […]

LatAm Briefs: Ofac Venezuela, SEOGS2021 Kicks Off, Net Zero Summit

(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Jun.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Ofac extending Chevron’s operating license in Venezuela; Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, participating in the Innovating To Net Zero Summit; and the kick off of the Suriname Energy, Oil and Gas Summit (SEOGS2021). Ofac Extends Chevron’s […]

Guyana’s Oil Reserves Are Larger Than Expected

(OilPrice.com, Julianne Geiger, 23.Jul.2018) – Guyana’s recoverable offshore oil reserves are larger than expected—by almost a billion barrels, Hess Corp CEO John Hess said in a Monday press release. Gross discovered recoverable resources for Hess’s Stabroek Block has been revised upward to 4 million barrels of oil equivalent—up from the […]