By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy. 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. Natural Gas Can Be Found…
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy. 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. Every fan of T20…
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy 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. Every rising petroleum state…
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. Part II in this series – examines Guyana’s gas moment through a wider institutional lens: At the Energy Conference, ExxonMobil signaled it is ready to move quickly…
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. We’ve recently published the first article in a new series examining offshore gas development in emerging producer states. Discovery is the easy part. Development — especially in…
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy. 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. For much of the…
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. On Friday, the US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the issuance of two general licences that allow Shell and BP to proceed with…
Every man, woman and child must become oil-minded Part 176On 27th October 2017, a gentleman who I had never met asked, through a third party, to see me. It was unusual but I thought why not. After exchanging brief pleasantries, he disclosed that the 2016 Petroleum Agreement signed by the APNU-led Coalition included a signature…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 175 Today’s column concludes a two-part piece arising from comments made by ExxonMobil’s Chief Executive Officer during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. When Darren Woods spoke of force majeure “pausing the clock,” he was addressing shareholders and the wider investment community, not the…
On 31 January 2026, carried a story that exposes how surreptitiously Exxon seeks to draw every drop of blood – sorry, oil – from Guyana. The report once again brings the issue of force majeure sharply into focus. Force majeure is a contractual mechanism intended to grant additional time where performance has been genuinely and…
