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Sept 22, 2020 Oil and gas project sanctions, especially in the offshore segment, are expected to rebound next year compared to the COVID-19 ravaged 2020, and even exceed the pre-pandemic levels from 2022 onwards, energy market analysts from Rystad Energy have said. Rystad on Tuesday somewhat upgraded its expectations for 2020 too, and now expects... Continue Reading →
Sept 21, 2020 Norwegian marine seismic services company Shearwater GeoServices said Monday it had been awarded a contract by Malaysia's Petronas for work offshore Suriname. The award is for a large towed streamer 3D seismic survey over Petronas' Block 52, offshore Suriname. The four-month survey project is scheduled to start in Q4, 2020. "This new... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 The United States and Guyana will begin joint maritime patrols aimed at drug interdiction near the South American country’s disputed border with crisis-stricken Venezuela, the U.S. secretary of state and Guyana’s new president said on Friday. The agreement comes as U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp, as part of a consortium with... Continue Reading →
Sept 9, 2020 Hess Corp's chief executive on Wednesday said he is optimistic the recently elected government of Guyana will issue by the end of September a production license for the third phase of a major offshore oil project. The South American nation has become one of the most important new oil and gas discoveries in the... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil company ExxonMobil has made an oil discovery at the Redtail-1 well, offshore Guyana, Hess, Exxon's partner in the prolific Stabroek Block has said. This is the U.S. oil major's 18th discovery offshore Guyana in the same block and will add the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the block of more than... Continue Reading →
Ill-timed bets on rising demand have Exxon Mobil Corp facing a shortfall of about $48 billion through 2021, according to a Reuters tally and Wall Street estimates, a situation that will require the top U.S. oil company to make deep cuts to its staff and projects. Wall Street investors are even starting to worry about... Continue Reading →
Guyana’s neighbour Brazil, recognising that the new oil-producing country is poised for major transformational development in coming years, has committed once again to working with authorities here on major road, port and energy projects. During a virtual briefing with Roraima Senator Chico Rodrigues on Tuesday, Brazil’s Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes said the country wants... Continue Reading →
China's Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) shipyard has delivered another Guyana-bound FPSO hull for the Dutch FPSO specialist SBM Offshore. Following the delivery of the Liza Unity hull in late 2019, SWS on Monday delivered the Liza Prosperity hull, the second hull built under SBM Offshore's Fast4Ward standardized-FPSO-hull program. The construction of the FPSO Prosperity hull started... Continue Reading →
Exxon Mobil Corp is pressing Guyana's newly-installed government for approval of its third offshore oil project, which has been under a months-long review that coincided with political turmoil in the South American country. Exxon, which operates the Stabroek block as part of a consortium with Hess Corp and China's CNOOC Ltd has discovered more than... Continue Reading →
Guyana has re-launched a search for a company to market the government's share of the crude produced at the offshore Liza project, operated by Exxon Mobil Corp, according to a notice published in the South American country's newspapers. President Irfaan Ali's government scrapped a previous, similar process initiated by Ali's predecessor shortly after taking office in August.... Continue Reading →
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