Chris Ram
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 87 – June 11, 2021 Introduction With appreciation to the editor-in-chief of Stabroek News, this column which last appeared on April 17, 2020, is returning for a short series. It will feature the 2020 financial performance of the three companies which signed a…
Kaieteur News – Kaieteur News, along with other transparency advocates, has been calling for the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) government to release records on oil reports dating back to the beginning of oil production.Notably, those records would assist in the conduct of independent studies on the oil revenue and what Guyana is set to…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 86 – February 7, 2020 Introduction It has been a week of fast-moving events. This past Monday (February 3), the London-based NGO Global Witness released a report Signed Away in which it made the claim that had Guyana properly negotiated the 2016 Petroleum…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 85 – February 6, 2020 Two days ago, Column 84 set out the main provisions of the 2016 Bridging Deed. That Deed purported to keep alive the 1999 Petroleum Agreement signed by then President Janet Jagan. Effectively, it not only allows the three…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 84 – February 4, 2020 This Column regards the Bridging Deed conceived by some artful legal mind as going to the heart of the 2016 Petroleum Agreement – one of the first major economic acts of the Granger Administration. The handmaiden for the…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 83 – January 31, 2020 This Column has finally been able to put its hands on the Bridging Deed referred to in Article 30 of the Petroleum Agreement signed by the APNU+AFC Government and Esso, Hess and CNOOC/Nexen. The Deed, is frightening in…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 82 – January 17, 2020 Today’s column returns to the issue of Local Content Policy which appears either to have been drowned out by the excitement of First Oil or in which interest seems to have ebbed – a pattern since the Local…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 81 – January 3, 2020 Introduction This column should have continued my take on Local Content. I will defer this to a later piece so that I do not miss the very focus on this series: the Road to First Oil. Readers will…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 80 – December 6, 2019 Introduction Last week’s column gave a brief overview of the Third Draft of Government’s Local Content Policy which was released to the bemused public by Dr. Mark Bynoe, Director, Department of Energy part of the super Ministry of…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 79 – November 29, 2019 Introduction The word is now out that long before the earlier planned date of First Oil, Guyana will witness the historic pouring of the first barrel of crude oil catapulting the small country of barely three-quarter million persons…
