Please allow me to respond to ExxonMobil Guyana’s Media Advisor, Kwesi Isles, who you quoted in your article ‘Surveys in Demerara River approved by EPA for pipeline works – Exxon’ in KN on March 01, 2023. I appreciate that the capital-intensive nature of the petroleum sector forces a ‘hurry, hurry’ approach, exacerbated in Guyana by…
By Stabroek News August 10, 2022 Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to a letter dated August 6, 2022 written by Joel Bhagwandin, Financial Analyst, captioned,’ Guyana poised to earn close to US$5b annually when the four approved oil platforms are producing concurrently’. In that letter, it is stated that,’ Professor Hunte failed to cite…
Guyana Petroleum Summit Marriott Marquis, Houston, TX You may want to turn on CC (Close Caption) if your audio is playing low.
The Coalition has been plying a narrative, over the last few years, that we should accept the atrocious oil deal with Exxon because the US would help defend the company and our country against Venezuelan aggression. But it is now hard to contemplate that the coalition believed its own rhetoric. Given its recent defiance of…
Thank you for securing information from NRG Holdings Ltd. (SN 19 July 2022, ‘Extensive consultations’ held with fisherfolk prior to Demerara dredging activities – NRG Holdings). I wonder if the sheer amount of mud to be dredged and dumped onto their traditional fishing grounds was explained by the company during the focus group meetings and…
As the Energy Conference gets underway, Guyana continues to experience the phenomenon of blackouts. Only last week the national grid ran into trouble and they had to bring in experts to diagnose the problem. They had to shut down the five dual-fuel power generating sets at GPL’s Garden of Eden power plant, to prevent a…
Guyana Extractives Industry Transparency Week. A virtual Guyana Extractives Industry Transparency Week (GEITW) from June 7-11, 2021. This one-week event is focused on bringing together government, industry, civil society organizations, journalists, and the general public under one forum to discuss Guyana’s ongoing pursuit of good governance and transparency in the extractives sector. Key areas of…
In the Thursday September 12, 2019 edition of Stabroek News (SN), our claim that the award of the petroleum exploration licences was subject to the Public Procurement Act was rejected by the Public Procurement Commission and by Dr. Anand Goolsarran, a former auditor general and past president of TIGI. Our column to which these individuals…
Introduction Today I begin to address the third and final sub-sector in this long-running series of columns on the extractive industries sector of Guyana. That is, the coming time of oil and natural gas production and export, which are about 5-7 years away. So far, I have considered 1) the mining sub-sector (December 27, 2015-February…
