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Exxon Sanctions Yellowtail Development Offshore Guyana

by Bojan Lepic|Rigzone Staff|Tuesday, April 05, 2022

U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil has made a final investment decision for the Yellowtail development offshore Guyana after receiving government and regulatory approvals.

This will be the company’s fourth, and largest, project in the Stabroek Block. It is expected to produce approximately 250,000 barrels of oil per day starting in 2025. To remind, the project received environmental clearance by Guyanese authorities late last week.

“Yellowtail’s development further demonstrates the successful partnership between ExxonMobil and Guyana and helps provide the world with another reliable source of energy to meet future demand and ensure a secure energy transition,” said Liam Mallon, president of ExxonMobil Upstream Company.

“We are working to maximize benefits for the people of Guyana and increase global supplies through safe and responsible development on an accelerated schedule,” Mallon added.

Yellowtail production from the One Guyana floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel will develop an estimated resource of more than 900 million barrels of oil. The $10 billion project will include six drill centers and up to 26 production and 25 injection wells – up to 67 development wells in total.

ExxonMobil’s ongoing offshore exploration in Guyana has discovered a recoverable resource of more than 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels. The company anticipates up to 10 projects on the Stabroek Block to develop this resource.

Development of projects and continued exploration success offshore are enabling the steady advancement of Guyanese capabilities and enhanced economic growth. More than 3,500 Guyanese are supporting ExxonMobil’s activities in Guyana, an increase of more than 50 percent since 2019.

The company and direct contractors have spent more than $600 million with more than 880 local suppliers since 2015.

More than 3,000 Guyanese companies are registered with the Centre for Local Business Development, which was founded by ExxonMobil and its co-venturers in 2017 to build local business capacity and support global competitiveness.

Partner Hess said in a separate statement that its net share of development costs, excluding pre-sanction costs and FPSO purchase cost, is forecast to be approximately $2.3 billion, of which approximately $210 million is expected in 2022, $430 million in 2023, $585 million in 2024, $390 million in 2025, and $295 million in 2026.

“We are excited to sanction our fourth oil development and the largest FPSO to date on the Stabroek Block,” CEO John Hess said. “We look forward to continuing to work with the Government of Guyana and our partners to realize the remarkable potential of this world-class resource for the benefit of all stakeholders. The world will need these low-cost oil resources to meet future energy demand and help ensure an affordable, just, and secure energy transition.”

Exxon said in February that it started production from Guyana’s second offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block – Liza Phase 2 – bringing total production capacity to more than 340,000 barrels per day in only seven years since the country’s first discovery.

Currently, the company is producing oil via the FPSO Liza Unity which produced first oil on February 11, 2022, and the Liza Destiny FPSO which started production in December 2019.

Payara, the third project in the Stabroek Block, is expected to produce approximately 220,000 barrels of oil per day using the Prosperity FPSO vessel, which is currently under construction.

Last week, the construction of the Prosperity FPSO hit a new milestone as it left dry dock in Singapore. The second Fast4Ward FPSO built by SBM Offshore has in February moved to the quayside for the topside integration phase.

ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited is the operator and holds 45 percent interest in the Stabroek Block. Hess holds 30 percent while CNOOC holds the remaining 25 percent interest.

https://www.rigzone.com/news/exxon_sanc ... 3-article/

et pour le FPSO Prosperity :


SBM Offshore is moving forward with the construction of the Prosperity FPSO as the unit leaves dry dock in Singapore.

https://www.rigzone.com/news/watch_exxo ... 4-article/

The hull for the Prosperity FPSO has arrived safely at the Keppel yard in Singapore in August last year. Drydock activities that kicked off in the fourth quarter of 2021, included the installation of major structures that will support the Mooring and Subsea Risers. As SBM noted, the next phase of construction will include the topside modules being integrated at the yard.

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Le Guyana réfléchi à une compagnie pétrolière d'état face à la trop grande importance prise par EXXON.

Guyana considers forming state-owned oil company
The oil-rich country is also looking to restrict Exxon Mobil’s expansion by excluding it from bidding for new licences.

April 20, 2022

Guyana is considering forming a national company to manage its oil resources, and also plans to offer new licences, with the final decision on the process expected by September, reported Bloomberg News.

The oil-rich South American country is also planning to restrict the US energy giant Exxon Mobil’s influence in the country’s oil industry by excluding it from bidding for new exploration areas, the report added.

Guyana vice-president Bharrat Jagdeo was cited by the publication as saying, at the BNEF Summit, in New York, that the country received interest from oil companies following a series of discoveries made in the country by Exxon.

Jagdeo said: “There’s been a public issue about concentration.”

He noted that one option under consideration is transferring the exploration licences to a state-owned oil company.


This company would be operated by a strategic partner that could potentially be from the Middle East.

The move would help the government in playing a “very passive role” in the development of the country’s oil industry.

Exxon’s partners, including Hess and China’s CNOOC, could also be barred from the potential auction as they already own most of the country’s oil resources.

agdeo added: “We are yet to determine whether we’d allow those existing operators, particularly those in that block, the Stabroek block, to bid if we go the auction route.”

Either way, Exxon’s current operations are expected to be unaffected. The firm plans to produce approximately 800,000 barrels of oil by 2025.

Jagdeo said that the new licences as considered ‘important’, as they would help correct the “inequity” of the original production sharing contract of Exxon.

“There’s been a lot of call for renegotiation of the contract. We have opted not to do so. We can correct this inequity, this imbalance, in future blocks,” Jagdeo added.

ExxonMobil recently received approval from the Guyanese Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the development of the Yellowtail offshore oil project.

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ExxonMobil Hikes Resource Estimate After 3 New Guyana Discoveries

By Gandahari Cooray - Apr 26, 2022 oilprice.com

ExxonMobil has increased its estimate of the gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for its Stabroek Block in offshore Guyana to 11 billion oil-equivalent barrels, thanks to three new discoveries at the site. This was increased from the previous estimate of 10 billion barrels.

Exxon stated that it had made hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone discoveries at the wells of Barreleye-1, Patwa-1 and Lukanani-1. This brings the company’s total discoveries this year to five in offshore Guyana, which included the discoveries at Fangtooth and Lau Lau made earlier this year.

At Barreleye-1, Exxon discovered 230 ft (70 m) of hydrocarbon-rich sandstone and was drilled at a water depth of 3,840 ft (1,170 m). The discovery at Patwa-1, made at a water depth of 6,315 ft (1,925 m), uncovered 108 ft (33 m) of hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone. The discovery at Lukanani-1, conducted at a water depth of 4,068 ft (1,240 m) found 115 ft (35 m) of hydrocarbon-rich sandstone.

At present, Exxon has four sanctioned projects in the area, and has plans to scale this up to 10 production units. The current capacity of Liza Phase I is 130,000 barrels per day, with the Liza Destiny floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

Liza Phase II commenced production in February 2022, and aims to reach a capacity of 220,000 barrels per day using the Liza Unity FPSO.

Payara, Exxon’s third project in the region, has started construction on its Prosperity FPSO, and likely to commence production by the end of 2023. Its expected capacity is 220,000 barrels per day.

Finally, Yellowtail, its fourth project in the region is expected to deliver 250,000 barrels per day when its ONE GUYANA FPSO launches in 2025.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News ... eries.html

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CGX, Frontera Hit Oil At Kawa-1 Well Off Guyana

by Paul Anderson|Rigzone Staff|Tuesday, May 10, 2022

https://www.rigzone.com/news/cgx_fronte ... 8-article/

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Peut étre encore plus de pétrole au large du Guyana grâce à l' exploration-forage entre 15 000 et 18 000 pieds.

The Most Exciting Oil Frontier On Earth

By Felicity Bradstock - Jun 08, 2022

After two years of regular oil discoveries in Guyana, it seems its deep waters may hold even more crude, adding to its reputation as the next big oil-producing state. But the government will have to get its agreements in order if it wants to ensure the future financial security of the country, as major international players swoop in to reap the rewards.

Guyana is home to the largest oil discovery in the last two decades, after Exxon Corp made several more finds in the offshore Stabroek block last year, bringing their total find to 11 billion barrels of oil. And now Exxon has expanded its exploration zone below the previous 15,000 feet depth to drill at 18,000 feet.

Thanks to so many successful consecutive discoveries, Exxon hopes its third platform will be up and running months ahead of schedule, in Q3 2023 rather than in 2024. The deeper exploration is expected to expose billions more barrels of oil reserves, according to John Hess, CEO of Hess, which has a 30 percent stake in the Exxon-led consortium in Guyana. Hess suggested that the Fangtooth discovery well, which was drilled at 18,000 feet earlier in the year, could become a new production unit of its own due to its size.

Guyana's Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo expressed the government’s eagerness to develop its offshore reserves further, with no plans to conduct more seismic studies on blocks scheduled to be auctioned in September. At the end of May, he stated, “The price of oil is high, and I think now is the right time if we go to the auction, so we are angling towards going -- using the current data set -- not generating future data sets.”

The auction will include Block C, an ultra-deep-water zone that has not been licensed for exploration before. Although, it is uncertain whether the entirety of the 9,500 km2 area will be auctioned as one block or whether it will be split up. It is also uncertain whether Exxon will take part in the auction or if Guyana will favor new players in the market.

Even before the recent deep-water discoveries, there was great optimism around Guyana’s potential, with the expectation of it becoming a leading world oil producer. Exxon made five discoveries between January and April this year, bringing the total to 31 finds at that point. Its huge reserves are now greater than those of top South American producers Colombia, Ecuador, and Argentina. Guyana is now the seventh-largest oil producer in Latin America and the Caribbean and is expected to become a leading top-20 oil-producing nation globally with an estimated output of 1.2 million bpd of crude from its Stabroek block by 2027.

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Exxon planifie 35 autres forages offshores dans le bloc Stabroek !

Exxon Plans Another 35 Wells Offshore Guyana

By Tsvetana Paraskova - Jul 22, 2022,

ExxonMobil, which has so far found 11 billion barrels of oil at place offshore Guyana, is seeking environmental approval to drill another 35 wells on the very prolific Stabroek Block offshore the South American country beginning in 2023.

Exxon’s local subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has applied with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Guyana for the massive drilling campaign, expected to begin next year and end in 2028, Oil & Gas Journal reports.

The application, seen by Guyana’s Kaieteur News, says that “The exact locations of the 35 exploration/appraisal wells comprising the Project have not yet been finalized. While some of the 35 wells will be drilled for exploration purposes, it is also possible that some of the wells may be drilled as appraisal wells within the proximity of previously drilled exploration areas. Therefore, four areas of interest have been identified within the Stabroek Block as the possible locations for the proposed 35 exploration/appraisal wells to occur.”

Exxon has helped make Guyana the latest oil-producing and oil-exporting nation in late 2019. Since 2015, when it first discovered oil offshore Guyana, Exxon has made more than 20 discoveries in the waters of the South American nation.

In February this year, Exxon said it started production at Guyana’s second offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block, Liza Phase 2, bringing total production capacity to more than 340,000 barrels per day (bpd). Production at the Liza Unity floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is expected to reach its target of 220,000 bpd this year, and adds to the more than 120,000 bpd of capacity at the Liza Phase 1 project that launched in December 2019.

In April, Exxon approved its fourth offshore project in Guyana, at Yellowtail, which is expected to produce 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) starting in 2025.

By 2027, Exxon plans to produce more than 850,000 bpd from Guyana’s offshore, the U.S. supermajor said in a presentation on its investor day in March.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News ... uyana.html

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SBM Offshore completes US$1.75 billion financing of FPSO ONE GUYANA

édité le 22/07/2022

SBM Offshore is pleased to announce it has completed the project financing of FPSO ONE GUYANA for a total of US$1.75 billion.

The project financing was secured by a consortium of 15 international banks. The Company expects to draw the loan in full, phased over the construction period of the FPSO. The financing will become non-recourse once the FPSO is completed and the pre-completion guarantee has been released. The project loan is in line with the duration of the charter hence a two-year tenor post-completion and carries a variable interest rate based on SOFR plus 2.2% margin.

The FPSO ONE GUYANA builds on the experience to date of FPSOs Liza Destiny, Liza Unity and Prosperity. As such, the design is based on SBM Offshore’s industry leading Fast4Ward® program that incorporates the Company’s new build, multi-purpose hull combined with several standardized topsides modules. The FPSO will be designed to produce approximately 250,000 barrels of oil per day, will have associated gas treatment capacity of 450 million cubic feet per day and water injection capacity of 300,000 barrels per day. The FPSO will be spread moored in water depth of about 1,800 meters and will be able to store around 2 million barrels of crude oil.

The project is part of the Yellowtail development which is the fourth development within the Stabroek block, circa 200 kilometers offshore Guyana. Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, is the operator and holds a 45 percent interest in the Stabroek block, Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. holds a 30 percent interest and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, holds a 25 percent interest.

https://www.euro-petrole.com/sbm-offsho ... -n-i-24216

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Guyana Poised To Break $1 Billion In Oil And Gas Revenue This Year

By Rystad Energy - Jul 24, 2022

> Guyana’s government oil and gas revenue is set to surpass $1 billion in 2022.

> Guyana may see $7.5 billion in annual oil and gas revenues by 2030.

> Guyana is the global leader in total offshore discoveries since 2015, with 11.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

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Les découvertes ne s'arrêtent pas :

Guyana Just Keeps On Giving As Exxon Makes Two More Discoveries

by Bojan Lepic|Rigzone Staff|Wednesday, July 27, 2022

U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil is continuing with its incredibly precise exploration of Guyana’s Stabroek block with two new discoveries southeast of the Liza and Payara developments.

The exploration work in Guyana for Exxon appears laser-guided as the discoveries at Seabob and Kiru-Kiru are the sixth and seventh in the country this year, with the total number of discoveries in Guyana at more than 25.

The Seabob-1 well encountered approximately 131 feet of high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone and was drilled in 4,660 feet of water by the Stena Carron drillship. The Kiru-Kiru-1 well encountered approximately 98 feet of high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone and was drilled by the Stena DrillMAX in 5,760 feet of water. According to the company, drilling operations at Kiru-Kiru are still ongoing.

“ExxonMobil and its partners continue to accelerate exploration, development, and production activities for the benefit of all stakeholders, including the people of Guyana,” said Liam Mallon, president of ExxonMobil Upstream Company. “The resources we are investing in and discovering offshore Guyana will provide safe, secure energy for global markets for decades to come.”

The company’s 2022 investment plans include further exploration drilling and resource development in Guyana, where it is already increasing production at an accelerated, industry-leading pace. Two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels operating offshore Guyana — Liza Destiny and Liza Unity — have exceeded their initial combined production target of 340,000 barrels of oil per day.

“A third project, Payara, is expected to produce 220,000 barrels per day. Construction on its production vessel, the Prosperity FPSO, is approximately five months ahead of schedule with start-up likely before year-end 2023. The fourth project, Yellowtail, is expected to produce 250,000 barrels per day when the One Guyana FPSO comes online in 2025,” Exxon explained.

The supermajor added that its Guyana investment strategy continues to yield positive results with additional exploration wells planned later this year.

In a separate statement, the CEO of Exxon’s partner in the block, Hess, John Hess said: “We are excited to announce two more discoveries on the Stabroek Block, bringing our total this year to seven. These discoveries will add to the discovered recoverable resource estimate for the block of approximately 11 billion barrels of oil equivalent, and we continue to see multibillion barrels of future exploration potential remaining.”

Guyana’s Stabroek block is 6.6 million acres. ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited is the operator and holds 45 percent interest in the block. Hess Guyana Exploration holds 30 percent interest and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited holds the remaining 25 percent interest.

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Guyana expects billion-dollar oil earnings this year
Guyana's central bank says the South American country is likely to earn more than $1 billion this year from its production share of offshore oil exports

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press September 5, 202
GEORGETOWN, Guyana

Guyana is likely to earn more than $1 billion this year from its production share of offshore oil exports — more than it will garner from gold, bauxite, timber or any other sector, the central bank said Monday.

The production sharing agreement with American ExxonMobil, Hess Oil of the U.S. and China’s National Offshore Oil Company will give the country an estimated $1.1 billion from the 13 million barrels of oil it is entitled to this year, central bank Governor Gobind Ganga told The Associated Press.

The small South American nation, which hosts the headquarters of the 15-nation Caribbean Community, became an oil producer in 2019 when Exxon lifted the first batch of oil from the seabed — four years after it had announced a massive find about 120 miles offshore Guyana.

The consortium has already drilled more than 30 successful wells, mainly from its Liza Field in the Stabroek Block. Current production is about 350,000 barrels per day but this is expected to more than double when two other oil fields come on stream in the next three years, Exxon has said.

Until oil production began, gold and rice exports had dominated the country’s foreign exchange earnings. With global petroleum prices high, the country expects to enjoy a windfall both from direct oil sales and the massive support system for the industry, including the construction of onshore facilities.

“This is historically the largest amount of revenue we will earn from any single sector this year. This is very obvious with the price of oil today,” Ganga said. Finance Minister Ashni Singh recently projected that gross domestic product would grow by 56% this year, by far the fastest pace in the hemisphere.

The 2015 announcement by Exxon that it had found some of the world’s lightest crude oil has triggered a rush by most of the major producers, with Repsol of Spain, Tullow oil of the United Kingdom and several others either buying into existing oil blocks or negotiating their own.

Commercial oil and gas deposits have been discovered in two additional blocks neighboring Exxon’s, while companies neighboring Suriname have also found large quantities of oil and gas in the basin that the U.S. Geological Survey says contains at least 16 billion barrels of oil.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... r-89361058

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Le Guyana veut construire une raffinerie pouvant traiter 30.000 barils par jour

AFP le 05 oct. 2022

Le Guyana, qui dispose de réserves de pétrole estimées à 10 milliards de barils dont il a commencé l'exploitation, veut construite une raffinerie modulaire pouvant traiter 30.000 barils par jour (bpj) pour couvrir les besoins nationaux, a annoncé mardi le président Mohamed Irfaan Ali.

"Nous envisageons le lancement" d'un appel d'offres "pour une raffinerie de 30.000 barils", a-t-il déclaré lors d'une cérémonie au Bureau d'investissement du Guyana (Go-Invest), une agence publique servant à orienter les investissements de ce petit pays de 800.000 habitants.

La raffinerie sera "modulaire" (raffinerie simplifiée qui nécessite des investissements moindres à celui des grands ensembles de raffinage), a précisé Peter Ramsaroop, dirigeant de Go-Invest.

"Il suffit de voir ce qui se passe dans le monde aujourd'hui - l'Ukraine, la guerre en Russie - pour voir comment les prix du carburant ont augmenté (...) la raffinerie n'est qu'une étape de plus dans l'examen de nos besoins dans un avenir proche", a estimé M Ramsaroop.

La raffinerie sera installée dans l'est du pays, a-t-il indiqué, ajoutant que le gouvernement veillerait à en minimiser l'impact écologique.

Le Guyana, couvert à plus de 90% de forêt vierge, vise malgré la découverte de pétrole à rester un pays au bilan carbone négatif ou neutre.

Considé comme un nouvel eldorado pétrolier, ce pays d'Amérique du Sud produit actuellement environ 340.000 barils par jour, mais devrait tripler sa production avant 2026.

https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org ... our-221005

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ExxonMobil trouve du pétrole à Sailfin-1 et Yarrow-1.

ExxonMobil Finds Oil Two More Times In Guyana

by Bojan Lepic|Rigzone Staff|Wednesday, October 26, 2022

U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil has made discoveries at the Sailfin-1 and Yarrow-1 wells in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, adding to its extensive portfolio of development opportunities.

ExxonMobil has made more than 30 discoveries on the block since 2015, and it has ramped up offshore development and production at a pace that far exceeds the industry average.

“Our unrivaled exploration success and accelerated pace of development in Guyana are a testament to our people, decades of experience, technology capabilities, and steadfast focus on optimizing all aspects of operations.”

“We are committed to responsibly and safely developing this world-class resource to help meet global demand for secure, reliable, and lower-emission energy. Our investments through the pandemic have allowed us to increase supply at this critical time while creating value for the people of Guyana, our partners, and shareholders,” said Liam Mallon, president of the ExxonMobil Upstream Company.

The Sailfin-1 well encountered approximately 312 feet of hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone and was drilled in 4,616 feet of water. The Yarrow-1 well encountered approximately 75 feet of hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone and was drilled in 3,560 feet of water. Both wells were drilled by the Stena Carron drillship.

ExxonMobil’s first two sanctioned offshore Guyana projects, Liza Phase 1 and Liza Phase 2, are now producing above design capacity and achieved an average of nearly 360,000 barrels of oil per day in the third quarter. A third project, Payara, is expected to start up by the end of 2023, and a fourth project, Yellowtail, is expected to start up in 2025.

ExxonMobil is currently pursuing environmental authorization for a fifth project, Uaru. By the end of the decade, ExxonMobil expects Guyana’s oil production capacity to be more than one million barrels a day.

Guyana’s Stabroek block is 6.6 million acres. ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited is the operator and holds a 45 percent interest in the block. Hess Guyana Exploration holds a 30 percent interest, and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana holds a 25 percent interest.

https://www.rigzone.com/news/exxonmobil ... 5-article/

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Guyana To Launch First Oil Tender Under New Rules

By Irina Slav - Nov 04, 2022,

Guyana’s next oil tender will be conducted under new rules that significantly increase the country’s share of the oil revenue.

This is according to Guyana’s vice president, who said this week that the government will offer 14 offshore blocks in its next auction, of them three deepwater and 11 shallow ones.

“We decided that to get the bids more competitive, we will allow locals and international companies to bid so there will be minimum technical and financial qualifications for the bids,” Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said.

Per the new rules, the production-sharing agreements with the winning companies would see profits split on a 50:50 basis, plus a 10-percent royalty rate and 10-percent corporate tax rate, Reuters reported, citing an address by Jagdeo.

Currently, Guyana only gets 15 percent of oil revenues plus a 2-percent royalty rate, which has been criticized as too unfavorable for the country - one of the poorest in South America.

Also, there will be limits on how many blocks a company can be awarded, according to the government’s new plans for the oil industry. Although a company could bid for as many blocks as it wants, it would only be awarded a maximum of three.

The signing bonuses for the deepwater blocks were set at $20 million, and the bonuses for the shallow-water blocks at $10 million.

Guyana has become the new hot spot in global oil after Exxon and its partners Hess and CNOOC made a string of discoveries off its coast. The string continues, by the way, with Exxon announcing another two discoveries in late October.

This has brought the total since 2015 to more than 30 discoveries, with reserves in the billions of barrels. Production to date is 360,000 bpd, which is above design capacity, Exxon said in October. Plans are to boost this to over 1 million bpd by the end of the decade.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News ... Rules.html

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En relation avec ce post du 7 sept 2019 viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12396&p=2287384&hil ... o#p2287384

L'Esequibo, une région d'immigration vénézuélienne, réclamée par Caracas au Guyana
AFP•12/11/2022

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L'Esequibo c'est le nom du fleuve principal extreme Sud - Nord du Guyana

Le teritoire revendiqué par le Venezuela c'est toute la partie Ouest du Rio Esequibo ! soit plus de la moitié du Guyana.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayana_Esequiba

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Le Guyana lance son premier appel d'offres pour des blocs pétroliers offshore

AFP le 09 déc. 2022

Le Guyana, petit pays sud-américain de 800 000 habitants qui dispose des plus grandes réserves mondiales de pétrole brut par habitant, a lancé vendredi son tout premier appel d'offres pour des blocs pétroliers offshore, a annoncé son président, Irfaan Ali.

Le pays espère attribuer les 11 blocs en eaux peu profondes et trois blocs en eaux profondes et ultra profondes d'ici au 31 mai 2023. Les "primes à la signature" ont été fixées à un minimum de 20 millions de dollars pour les blocs en eaux profondes et à 10 millions de dollars pour les blocs en eaux peu profondes, a-t-il précisé. "Ce que nous cherchons à faire, c'est d'avoir le meilleur résultat possible pour le Guyana, compte tenu des leçons que nous avons apprises", a affirmé le président.

En septembre, lors d'une interview accordée à l'AFP, l'activiste et avocat Christopher Ram avait reproché aux différents gouvernements du pays d'avoir bradé la "souveraineté" du Guyana en signant des contrats "mauvais et déséquilibrés" en faveur de compagnies pétrolières. "La malédiction du pétrole semble inévitable (...) Nous n'avons pas de politique économique et on a besoin de bonne gouvernance", avait-il dit.

Le président a rappelé que ExxonMobil, l'opérateur du bloc "Stabroek", déjà exploité, avait signé une prime à la signature de 18 millions de dollars lorsqu'une seule découverte avait été faite. Depuis lors, il y a eu un total de 30 découvertes avec une estimation de 11 milliards de barils d'équivalent pétrole, a-t-il souligné.

Le chef de l'Etat a précisé que les compagnies allaient devoir payer 20 000 dollars de frais d'entrée et soumettre des propositions avant le 14 avril 2023. M. Ali a indiqué que les entreprises ne seraient pas autorisées à conserver les blocs pétroliers offshore pendant une longue période sans effectuer de travaux sismiques et de forage, conformément aux plans établis.

"En fait, dès que les soumissionnaires ne remplissent pas leurs obligations, le processus de renonciation - c'est-à-dire le moment où ils doivent rendre le bloc au gouvernement-- est renforcé et plus rapide", a-t-il dit.

Le Guyana, qui produit actuellement 360 000 barils de brut par jour, a des réserves de plus de 10 milliards de barils avec de nouvelles découvertes possibles. Il est déjà le pays disposant des plus grandes réserves par habitant du monde, même devant Brunei, le Koweït ou les Emirats.

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