Lack of ring-fencing cut Guyana’s 2025 profit-oil entitlement by US$4.9b

Dear Editor, As of 2026, there are now 4 deepwater oil operations in production, altogether sometimes pumping 930,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) a day, or US$2.4 billion in oil revenue per month, at today’s oil prices. There have been repeated calls for these projects to be ring-fenced. To quote Christopher Ram’s definition of Ring-Fencing,…

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Why were the Bell rescue helicopters not launched immediately from Ogle?

Dear Editor, Omni Helicopters Guyana Inc. is a partnership with Roraima Airways owned by the Gouveia family, https://www.facebook.com/OHGInc/.  Omni mainly services the offshore deep-water oilfield operations of Exxon Mobil Guyana Ltd. (EMGL) and has a fleet of six aircraft at Ogle, 20 minutes flying time from Iron Punt where the MV Barima ferry was sinking…

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