Road to First Oil – Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil Minded; Column 190 June 28, 2026 By Christopher Ram ExxonMobil Guyana Limited has now filed its financial statements for 2025, and with Hess’s and CNOOC’s already reviewed, we can now do the simple math of comparing the profits earned by and the…
ARTICLE 2 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. The Next Value Moments: Relinquishments, Farm-Ins, Transfers and Sales Guyana must watch not only production, but every point where petroleum value changes hands. Most public…
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. Introduction Guyana’s petroleum future…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 189: 13th June, 2026 Exxon’s 2025 Financial Statements – and What It Has Taken Out Overview ExxonMobil Guyana Limited this week filed its audited financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2025. Once again, the numbers are staggering: from a 45% interest in one…
Road to First Oil – Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-minded. Column No. 187: June 7, 2026 From Upper Mazaruni to Gas-to-Energy: A history of failures For almost every decade since Independence, Guyana has produced a project that promised transformation and delivered disappointment, and sometimes disaster. The 1970s had the Upper Mazaruni…
Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded — Column 186 — May 23, 2026 CNOOC Joins the Trillion Dollar Club Part 2: Hess in context — and CNOOC joins the party Introduction Last week’s column closed on a single fact: Hess Guyana’s accumulated surplus at 31 December 2025…
Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 185 – May 16, 2026 Beyond Stratospheric – 2025 Returns for Hess Introduction Hess Guyana Exploration Limited – a branch of Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd., a Cayman Islands-incorporated company and 30% stakeholder in the Stabroek Block – is once…
The Road to First oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-minded – Column 184 May 9, 2026 Independence, Sovereignty and Exxon One day after the nationalisation of the bauxite industry, then President Forbes Burnham observed that Independence gave Guyana a new flag and wardrobe, but “not a new economy.” Fifteen years later, during…
Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must become Oil Minded – May 2, 2026 Column 183: Dutch Disease Avoided. The Resource Curse Has Arrived. The Thirteenth Parliament of Guyana, elected on 1st September 2025, has held three business sessions in eight months. And that figure is generous. It includes the Budget and…
Column 182 (Part 2 – April 25, 2026): The Road to First – Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-Minded Introduction Some research carried out this week revealed that the big investment offered Guyanese into the Gas Bottling and Logistics Company in which the Office of the Prime Minister has invited interest of US$1Mn…
