Guyana Gas Development Policy: The Critical Importance of a Technical & Commercial Base
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at…
Guyana Gas Development Policy: The Critical Importance of a Technical & Commercial Base
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy. Throughout this series, my intention has been to support the continued strengthening of policy thinking around gas production and development. Sound policy, however, cannot be designed in abstraction. It must be rooted in…
Guyana Gas policy – technical considerations
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy. Natural Gas Can Be Found Underground in Two Main Ways Why Gas Re-Injection Becomes a Growing Challenge When oil is produced offshore, natural gas often comes up with it. Much of this gas…
Unravelling the Govt-created mystery of Guyana’s Oil Reserves
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry upon reading the Govt’s recent response to a Kaieteur News (KN) question concerning Guyana’s oil reserves – a subject the Govt has turned into a mystery, if not their privileged information. In other words, screw the people of Guyana who owns the oil! Govt elitists still can’t…
What does Guyana gain from the buying and selling of petroleum concessions? A big fat gander egg
ExxonMobil has concentrated on its ‘golden lane’ of wells drilled in the southeastern part of the huge Stabroek Tract (Block) concession, now of 2.68 million hectares. Exxon has also had a brief look at deeper concessions (Kaieteur Tract) and shallower areas (Canje Tract, formerly part of the original Stabroek Tract of 600 graticular blocks in…
Proposed questions for the BBC’s World Questions debate on Guyana’s political and economic future
Dear Editor, According to a BBC press release, https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/world-questions-guyana, it was announced that on Tuesday, March 10, BBC World Questions will travel to Guyana to debate the nation’s political and economic future. The discussion will focus heavily on Guyana’s vast oil and gas reserves. Panelists will include Dr. Ashni Singh, Minister of Finance, and Ms. Tabitha…
Questions that the moderator of the BBC programme may wish to put
My letter is directed at the BBC World Questions programme. If I understand correctly, the visit has been induced by the BBC noting that Guyana’s GDP per person is now high because of the export value of ExxonMobil’s offshore deep-water oil, a resource in excess of 11.6 billion barrels of oil and 13-16 trillion standard…
Winning the Powerplay Isn’t Winning the Match: The Gas Strategy Test Facing Guyana
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy. Every fan of T20 cricket knows the illusion of the perfect start. A side can dominate the powerplay, boundaries flowing and the scoreboard racing ahead, only for the match to tighten once…
Guyanese will not fall for Exxon flashing US$100m considering the many indignities
The incomparable columnist and master of our lingo, GHK Lall, and my esteemed Oil & Gas Governance Network (OGGN) colleagues deserve high praise for their recent shining of light on the real story behind the grandiose US$100 ($10 MM annually for 10 years) gift to Guyana’s Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) programme. As someone…
Oil and gas conference ducked critical issues, excluded opposition
Letter writer Mr. Hemdutt Kumar gets the award for his befitting portrayal of the recent Energy Conference as “a shrine to greed disguised as progress” and “A government that sells a global illusion while hiding local decay, masters of narrative, and merchants of vanity.” The programme boasted close to 100 speakers including 20 senior Government…
Before the Applause Fades: What Guyana Must Learn from Trinidad and Tobago’s Oil & Gas Trajectory
By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy Every rising petroleum state believes it is different – until it begins to repeat the same institutional mistakes. Trinidad and Tobago once stood where Guyana stands now: confident, cash-rich, strategically positioned, and…
