On 14 October, Charles Ramson Sr., Commissioner of Information, answered two citizens. A year earlier, Danuta Radzik and Elizabeth Deane Hughes, two outstanding members of civil society, had asked him for environmental permits and hazardous waste records connected with the costly and poorly executed Gas to Energy project and offshore oil operations. He never replied….
Article 7, Part II …Guyana’s changing gas picture shows why strategy must adapt without turning today’s assumptions into tomorrow’s liabilities By Anthony E. PaulSenior Energy Governance, Policy & Strategy Advisor; formerly Director of Geology and Geophysics, Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy; Amoco Trinidad and BPTT Manager responsible for Exploration and Appraisal / Gas Field…
In October 2025 Ms Danuta Radzik and Ms Elizabeth Deane Hughes asked the Commissioner of Information for records on the Gas-to-Energy project and on hazardous waste from the oil platforms. The law gave him sixty days. A year later he has not decided. Ms Radzik wrote to him again, relying on Justice Nicola Pierre’s ruling…
Meetings, announcements and committees are not delivery. None of the five petroleum questions below is adequately answered yet. The Budget debate gives Ministers an opportunity to supply the missing commitments and evidence. By Anthony Paul In an earlier article, “Looking for revenue in all the wrong places?”, I introduced a Petroleum Sector Budget Scorecard: questions…
The editor created these infographics for understanding, but Anthony Paul has not validated them. They may lack technical precision, but they remain a useful resource for general readers. By Anthony E. Paul Picture a family whose money no longer stretches to the end of the month. Food costs more, the light bill has gone up…
The editor created these infographics for understanding, but Anthony Paul has not validated them. They may lack technical precision, but they remain a useful resource for general readers. By Anthony E. PaulSenior Energy Governance, Policy & Strategy Advisor; formerly Director of Geology and Geophysics, Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy; Amoco Trinidad and BPTT Manager…
The editor created these infographics for understanding, but Anthony Paul has not validated them. They may lack technical precision, but they remain a useful resource for general readers. Picture a family whose money no longer stretches to the end of the month. Food costs more, the light bill has gone up and school expenses still…
Before Guyana decides how much infrastructure to build, it needs an independently understood picture of what gas will be available, when, and under what reservoir constraints The editor created these infographics for understanding, but Anthony Paul has not validated them. They may lack technical precision, but they remain a useful resource for general readers. By…
Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-Minded: Column 201 President Irfaan Ali recycles the argument so often that it is now official doctrine: the 2016 Stabroek Block Petroleum Agreement is a bad deal for Guyana, but “sanctity of contract” prevents renegotiation. In his recent Al Jazeera interview, Ali again asserted the Agreement was bad…
