(Reuters) - Guyana's economic growth could reach close to 60% this year, the International Monetary Fund said in a statement on Tuesday, urging cautious policies even as the tiny South American nation benefits from surging oil production. "Overall real GDP growth rate is projected to be 57.8% in 2022," the IMF said in a statement... Continue Reading →
Petrobras ready for pre-operational tests in the equatorial margin
(U) Petrobras is confident of getting over the final hurdle and obtaining environmental permits to drill at a location close to the maritime frontier of French Guiana Brazil's Petrobras is set to conduct a pre-operational simulation as the final step to obtaining environmental permits to drill a landmark wildcat in the northern Brazilian offshore play... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil: $13 trillion of oil and gas investments will be needed by 2050
(U) US supermajor ExxonMobil expects oil and natural gas will remain an important part of the energy mix in the decades to come, in order to meet an expected rise in energy demand around the world. Third-party studies estimate that $13 trillion of new oil and gas investments will be required by 2050 to meet... Continue Reading →
Guyana launches tender for new agent to sell its crude exports
(Reuters) - Guyana has launched a tender to choose a marketing agent for its share of Liza crude oil exports, the Natural Resources ministry said on Thursday, following the expiration of a contract with a unit of Saudi Aramco (2222.SE). A consortium by U.S. companies Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Hess Corp (HES.N) and China's CNOOC (0883.HK) is in charge of all... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Exxon boosts Guyana oil output, undecided on future auction bid
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) is uncertain whether it will bid for new offshore areas Guyana wants to explore, a person close to the matter said, as the oil major ramps up production faster than expected and the South American country wrestles with fixing terms of new oil leases. An Exxon-led consortium discovered oil in the... Continue Reading →
Evolving South American, Caribbean alliances can help alleviate the global energy conundrum
(OM) The global energy market continues to shift dynamically, from being oversupplied in 2020 to presently having a deficit, a trend which has been exacerbated by the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Additionally, years of underinvestment in hydrocarbon projects has only amplified this deficit. The result: elevating the stature of nations with hydrocarbon reserves that can be... Continue Reading →
Guyana oil producers ramp up exports to thirsty European refiners
(Reuters) - Oil producers in Guyana are boosting exports to European buyers seeking alternatives to Russian crude, according to vessel monitoring data. Government bans on Russian oil since the invasion of Ukraine have spurred demand for alternative crudes, and Guyanese oil fits refiners from Britain to Italy better than rival Latin American grades do. So... Continue Reading →
Water injection pumps to help increase oil recovery offshore Guyana
(WO) Guyana has some of the world's biggest offshore discoveries made in years, with 10 billion barrels of recoverable oil and gas starting to come online since 2019. These offshore reserves are being extracted using floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels, which are connected to well-heads on the seabed. Sulzer has delivered 11 high... Continue Reading →
Oil boom falls flat in Latin America, despite having a fifth of the world’s reserves
(WO) From Saudi Arabia to West Texas, drillers are pumping more oil to cash in on a scorching price rally. But a region that’s home to a fifth of the world’s crude reserves is mostly missing out. All over Latin America, the upside of $100 crude has been blunted by nationalist policies that tightened government control of... Continue Reading →
Guyana Boosts Oil Profit Outlook for 2022 by 30%
(Reuters) Guyana could bank about $1.25 billion this year from the sale of oil as its share of offshore production and royalties, up 30% from a prior estimate, the government's finance ministry said over the weekend. Historically one of South America's poorest nations, Guyana this year expects proceeds from oil discoveries off its coast to jump on... Continue Reading →