(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jul.2020) — Suriname elected Progressive Reform Party (VHP) front man Chan Santokhi as the country’s president and Ronnie Brunswijk, leader of the General Liberation and Development Party (ABOP), as the country’s vice president. The new government will official start work on 17 July 2020, Viren Ajodhia, energy […]
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Suriname Elects New President Santokhi
(The New York Times, 13.Jul.2020) — Desi Bouterse has cast a long shadow over Suriname since its independence. Once a dictator, he returned as a populist, but fell in the face of the pandemic and an economic crisis. Suriname elected a new president on Monday, ending the long rule of […]
Suriname Awaits Drilling Of Third Apache Well Offshore
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Jul.2020) — Suriname, the small Dutch-speaking South America country looking to emulate the success of its immediate neighbor to the north, Guyana, is awaiting drilling results of a third well to be drilled offshore by US-based Apache Corporation and Paris-based Total. The companies have already drilled two […]