Tag: ExxonMobil

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 12:51 UTC

  Italian contractor to build oil offshore structure, 2,000 meters deep in Guyana's profitable Stabroek block

  

  Saipem, the Italian energy industry services company, has secured offshore oil and gas field construction contracts in Guyana and Egypt worth some US$ 1.2 billion in total

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Extension granted to companies searching for oil off Argentina's shores

  

  Argentina's Energy Secretariat extended until 2024 the oil offshore exploration permits of ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum (QP) to operate in the Argentine Sea, it was reported earlier this week in the Official Gazette.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Guyana's first million barrels sale from the Liza Unity production platform

  

  Guyana has sold a cargo of one million barrels of its newest crude to ExxonMobil for US$106 per barrel, which was the first share for the government from the newly operational Liza Unity production platform operated by Exxon, according to Tsvetana Paraskova from Oilprice.com.

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  ExxonMobil will concentrate its growth ambitions in Brazil and Guyana

  

  ExxonMobil expects Brazil and Guyana will be key drivers for the company’s growth ambitions in the future, as the US super-major looks to concentrate the bulk of exploration and production development activities in the two South American nations, apparently leaving aside the shale deposits in Argentina.

• Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 09:06 UTC

  Guyana extends Noble Corporation drillship rig contract 6,5 years to August 2030

  

  Noble Corporation plc's ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Tom Madden has received about 6.5 years of additional contract term under the commercial enabling agreement (CEA) with ExxonMobil for work offshore Guyana.

• Monday, October 5th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Guyana's big profits dreams crushed by the pandemic and the “resource curse”

  

  By Amy Myers Jaffe (*) – This year was supposed to bring great things for Guyana. ExxonMobil discovered massive oil deposits off the South American country’s Caribbean coast in 2015, and Guyana sold its first cargo of crude oil this February. As production ramps up, its first stage offshore wells were projected to produce 750,000 barrels a day by 2025, tripling the size of Guyana's economy, from US$ 3,4 billion to US$ 13 Billion.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  The attraction of oil: first ever US Secretary of State visit to Suriname and Guyana

  

  Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first US secretary of state to visit Guyana and Suriname as the discovery of oil fuels a sudden new interest in the small South American nations.

• Friday, July 31st 2020 - 10:20 UTC

  Lack of political stability in Guyana is delaying expected oil output

  

  Guyana’s crude production has reached 100,000 b/d, 25% up on June, energy department director Mark Bynoe revealed even as the country continues to see an announcement on the 2 March, 2020 election results pushed further and further into the year.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:44 UTC

  Guyana rapidly becoming an oil major: 16th discovery in four years of exploration

  

  ExxonMobil today announced its 16 discovery in the Stabroek Block, located off the Guyanese coastline. The Texas-based company announced that it encountered 29 meters of high-quality oil-bearing sandstone at the Uaru well.

• Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Brazil's oil fields auction falls well short of expectations: US$ 17bn instead of US$ 26bn targeted

  

  Brazil's auction of drilling rights to four deep-sea oil fields raised a disappointing US$17 billion on Wednesday, officials said, well short of expectations for the highly-anticipated mega sale.