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Operating and proposed projects in the Stabroek block. Esso, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, began exploring the off-shore region in 2008. [10] In May 2015 ExxonMobil announced discovery of more than 90 metres of high-quality, oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs about 200 km off the coastline, [11] considered to be one of the largest crude oil discoveries of the past decade. [12]
Guyana increased crude oil production by an annual average of 98,000 b/d from 2020 to 2023, making it the third-fastest growing non-OPEC producing country during this period. The expansion of this sector has significantly contributed to the national economy, with the petroleum industry driving a 62.3 percent GDP growth in 2022, the highest ...
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.
Guyana’s parliament on Thursday passed long-awaited oil legislation that grants the natural resources minister extensive power over its multi-billion-dollar oil industry. The new rules will be ...
The consortium, which includes Exxon with a 45% stake and CNOOC with 25%, operates all of Guyana's output and earned $6.33 billion in profits last year by pumping 137 million barrels of oil.
In 1997 the Government of Guyana approved the extension plans and committed funds for the work, which began the following year. [4] In 1993, the National Library purchased and installed its first computers, and in 2002 it installed a free internet service. [4] In 2013, the National Library of Guyana celebrated its centenary.
Guyana has opened bids for 14 offshore oil blocks available for exploration and development as the South American country seeks to ramp up oil production. Six companies and groups submitted bids ...
The country's rice industry, which had stagnated between the two World Wars, expanded, with Guyana gaining a "virtual monopoly of the West Indies market" by the war's end. [ 45 ] With the fighting far away, and the country as part of the Allies due to British colonial rule, [ 46 ] the period of World War II, in British Guiana, was marked by ...