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Guyana and Suriname (along with French Guiana and Trinidad and Tobago) share many geologic, cultural and historical similarities, as well as their distinct position as West Indian societies estranged from the rest of South America. Historically, both countries were settled by the Dutch, and impacted by importation of slaves from Africa for the ...
A very large oil field has been recently discovered in the Guyana-Suriname Basin of the ecoregion. [3] [4] The Guianan is one of two ecoregions (the other being the Amazonia marine ecoregion) in the North Brazil Shelf province, [5] a Large marine ecosystem (LME). The Guianan is thus part of the larger Tropical Atlantic realm. [6] [7] [8]
The Maroni basin is 68,700 km 2; above the island Langatabbetje (110 km away from the mouth of the river) this area is 63,700 km 2. Between 1952 and 1973, the average discharge near Langatabbetje was about 1,700 m 3 /second. The minimum was 95 m 3 /second, the maximum 6,550 m 3 /second.
Jun. 30—One of the hottest new oilfields in the world, if not the hottest, is the off-shore Guyana-Suriname Basin, where ExxonMobil and a host of other companies are working non-stop to develop it.
The maritime boundary has long been disputed between Guyana and Suriname as well, and led in 2000 to skirmishes between Guyanese oil explorers and Surinamese coast guards. [7] Guyana claimed a thalweg boundary of the Courantyne River (probably inspired by the 1962 Dutch position), and a 35° line from the true North, from the mouth of the river ...
Block 52, which covers an area of 4,749 square km, is located north of the coast of Suriname capital Paramaribo and is situated within the prospective Suriname-Guyana basin, where several major ...
The Litani or Itany is a river which forms part of the boundary between Suriname and French Guiana. It is a tributary, or the upper course, of the Maroni. The boundary is disputed, with Suriname also claiming land to the east of the river. [1] The Litani river flows in the Lawa near Antecume Pata, and is fed from the Loë and Ulemari creeks. [2]
Later the separation of Africa and South America also resulted in sedimentation in the Guyana-Suriname basin near the coast and offshore. Both the onshore Takutu sedimentary basin and the offshore Guiana Basin have oil potential , and in 2015 significant oil was found in a deep water area off Guyana associated with the NW-SE trend of canyon ...