(SBM Offshore, 11.Apr.2023) — SBM Offshore announces the arrival of FPSO Prosperity at the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The vessel travelled just over 11,000 nautical miles – or just over...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Mar.2023) — The ONE GUYANA FPSO has arrived in drydock at Keppel shipyard. This marks a key milestone in the project, this phase will include work on...
(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 company’s first four developments offshore...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Apr.2022) — SBM Offshore revealed the first series of the topsides module lifting for the 220,000 barrel per day (b/d) capacity Prosperity floating production storage and offloading...
(DPI, 17.Nov.2021) — Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo said the government will complete the audits of costs claimed by ExxonMobil for its operations, and assured that Guyana’s interests will be...
(Hess, 7.Oct.2021) — Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) announced an increase in the gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to approximately 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent,...
(ExxonMobil, 9.Sep.2021) — ExxonMobil made a discovery at Pinktail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The Pinktail well encountered 220 feet (67 meters) of net pay in high quality hydrocarbon...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: ExxonMobil progressing its Payara project in Guyana for start-up in 2024 and Japan’s Inpex divesting...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Aug.2021) — Executives with ExxonMobil provided technical details of the company’s initial, current and planned activities in Guyana. What follows are excerpts from their presentations during the...
(ProActive, 5.Jul.2021) — Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas Ltd (LON:ECO, TSE:EOG) chief executive Gil Holzman remains confident in the Canje block, offshore Guyana, where Exxon is now lining up its...
(The Guardian, 31.May.2021) — Guyana’s government is being taken to court by two citizens seeking an end to offshore drilling by ExxonMobil and other large oil firms that will exacerbate...
(ExxonMobil, 27.Apr.2021) — ExxonMobil made an oil discovery at the Uaru-2 well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. Uaru-2 will add to the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Apr.2021) — ExxonMobil’s Senior Vice President Michael G. Cousins commented on the company’s 19th oil find offshore Guyana in the prolific Stabroek Block. “I’m thrilled to share...
(S&P Global, 23.Mar.2021) — The ExxonMobil-operated Liza Phase 1 development offshore Guyana achieved its nameplate capacity output of 120,000 b/d in December and continues to produce at that rate, the...
(Energy Advance, 17.Mar.2021) — GBS 2021 is the the meeting place for industry executives, experts, government stakeholders, local business owners delivering networking and valuable insight into the region’s potential; its...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2021) — Texas-based ExxonMobil announced results of the Hassa-1 exploration well offshore Guyana in the Stabroek Block didn’t find hydrocarbons in the primary reservoir target. “The Hassa-1...
(Global Witness, 11.Jan.2021) — The climate emergency is the greatest threat facing the world. If we are to prevent its worst impacts we all must act now. For Global Witness...
(Argus, 29.Oct.2020) — Guyana is negotiating a gas price with ExxonMobil for a gas-to-power project to be commissioned at the end of 2023, government officials said this week. The US...
(Hess, 28.Oct.2020) — Hess Corporation reported a net loss of $243 million, or $0.80 per common share, in the third quarter of 2020, compared with a net loss of $212...
(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 of New Jersey following the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Oct.2020) — The recently sanctioned Payara development located offshore Guyana in the Stabroek Block will demand a hefty $9bn development cost due to requiring more drill centers...
(Hess, 30.Sep.2020) — Hess made a final investment decision to proceed with development of the Payara Field offshore Guyana after the development plan received approval from the government of Guyana....
(Hess, 8.Sep.2020) — Hess announced another oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Redtail-1 well, the 18th discovery on the Stabroek Block, which will add to the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate...
(Hess Corp., 4.Sep.2020 — Hess announced that John Hess, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York on 9 September 2020 at 8:25 a.m....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Sep.2020) — Stena Drilling inked a new contract with Tullow Suriname BV for the Stena Forth drillship to drill one well offshore Suriname in Block-47. Block 47...
(CBC News, 16.Aug.2020) — Former Alberta Premier Alison Redford will head a team of consultants in a review of oil giant Exxon Mobil's proposed Payara oil well in the South...
(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 is a constructive move. For...
(DPI, 31.Jul.2020) — Oil and gas industry analyst Wood Mackenzie in its recent report stated that compared to other countries with similar circumstances, Guyana’s Stabroek Block fiscal terms ranks well....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jul.2020) — The Liza Unity FPSO hull has arrived from China to the Keppel shipyard in Singapore where it will be fitted with 13 topside modules to...
(Stabroek News, 10.Jul.2020) — Having gone almost entirely unnoticed in the global oil & gas industry for decades, both Guyana and neighbouring Suriname are now claiming their respective shares of...
(Argus, 18.Jun.2020) — ExxonMobil has restored crude production offshore Guyana to 80,000 b/d after correcting a technical glitch, according to the head of the country's environmental agency EPA Vincent Adams....
(Tudor Pickering, 16.Jun.2020) — Reports out last night that XOM was forced to reduce output at its Liza Phase 1 project in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana due to an...
(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 not know how long this...
(Stabroek News, 7.Jun.2020) — Production at Exxon-Mobil’s Liza-1 project in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana, has plummeted from 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) to now between 25,000 and 30,000 bpd...
(Argus, 2.Jun.2020) — Guyana is preparing to launch a tender for a natural gas-to-power project anchored on the ExxonMobil-operated Stabroek block. The project would entail the installation of a 160km...
(DOE, 4.May.2020) — Good morning ladies and gentlemen I am coming to you at a very interesting time in our country’s history given the furore over our national and regional...
(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...
(Reuters, 7.Apr.2020) — Exxon Mobil Corp said on Tuesday the start of production at its Payara project in Guyana, its third major development in the world's newest offshore oil hotspot,...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(NGI, 28.Jan.2020) — ExxonMobil, which rode the wave for worldwide exploration last year in part because of the prolific Guyana portfolio, announced another discovery offshore the South American country, where...
(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...
(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 to the Environmental Protection Agency...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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 proceed with the second phase...
(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...
(Stabroek News, 14.Apr.2019) — Guyana could see oil exploration activity in the ultra-deepwater region picking up pace in the near future with United States oil giant Chevron set to buy...
(ExxonMobil, 6.Feb.2019) — The discoveries build on the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek block. Tilapia-1 is the fourth discovery in...
(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...
(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...
(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 Dept. Of Public Information, 3.Dec.2018) — Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe this morning announced that United States oil giant ExxonMobil has made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana...
(ExxonMobil, 3.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil said today it made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana and increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to more than 5...