Income Tax Payable by Year Income Tax Payable by Year Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (Guyana Branch) Year Income Tax Payable (USD) – As reported on EMGL Balance Sheet 2019 0.00 2020 0.00 2021 0.00 2022 284,802,553.00 2023 947,548,593.48 2024 2,195,600,000.00 Data extracted from balance sheet statements as of 31 December for each respective…
Income Tax Expense Chart 2019-2024 Income Tax Expense by Year ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (Guyana Branch) – 2019 to 2024 Key Observations: No income tax expense recorded for 2019-2021 Significant tax liability began in 2022 ($284.8M) Tax expense more than doubled in 2023 ($662.9M) Highest tax expense in 2024 ($1.248B), nearly doubling again * All amounts…
On Friday, October 18th, Professor Janette Bulkan published a letter in the Stabroek News titled, `These wild presidential and DPI exaggerations, minus verifiable sources, ought to seriously be fact-checked by Stabroek News’. In the letter, the professor questioned how there could be 18,000 Guyanese working on the offshore oil rigs, as stated by President Irfaan…
The Oil & Gas Governance Network (OGGN) Guyana notes that Stabroek News on January 13, 2024 carried a letter by Mr Dhanraj Deonarine with the title “Is the NRF really overstated?” The letter suggests that the claim by Mr. Ram that the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), Guyana’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, is overstated “is not such…
A few years ago, oil companies would bombard the Guyanese people with “frontier country” to justify an embarrassing Stabroek Block contract that is currently paying us a paltry 14.5% or less of total oil revenues. The oil companies seem to have retreated from marketing us the “frontier country” tune after pushback from those in the…
In media reports on February 23rd, 2023, President Ali claims that Guyana received an extension for EITI report that is due for the fiscal year 2020. However, on the EITI website, https://eiti.org/countries/guyana, Guyana’s status is listed as “Suspended for missing deadline”, if as President Ali claims, an extension has now be given, why is Guyana’s current…
On Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 the Esso Guyana Media Relations Advisor, Kwesi Isles, stated that the increase of the Liza 1 and Liza 2 projects’ combined output to 400,000 barrels per day was safe. This appears to be the second time in less than a year that an Esso Guyana representative has issued highly questionable…
A foreign observer analyzing Guyana’s oil resource per citizen would guess that a baby born in the last few years in Guyana would be one of the luckiest of the 8 billion people in the world. But the observer would be mistaken. It is approaching 3 years since we started producing oil but one of…
If you owned one of the nicest houses in an exclusive neighbourhood, would you sell your house for a fraction of what other sellers are receiving? Guyana is receiving significantly less money from its oil production than other countries. But some Guyanese politicians hide behind the porous façade of the sanctity of contract while others…
The circuit breaker box controls the electrical energy in your house. Electronic devices in your house ranging from microwaves to televisions would be reduced to ornaments if the circuit breaker box malfunctions. This critical box is installed in your house, not on your street. You wouldn’t want criminals to easily disable the lights and alarms…
