BILLIONS OF US DOLLARS COULD BE LOST BY FAILING TO DEFINE “MARKET RATE” IN THE OIL CONTRACTS
Guyana is responsible for paying the interest on the oil companies’ loans. This fact is buried in the Production Sharing Agreements (PSA). (Stabroek Block PSA, Annex C Section 3.1 part (l)). The interest rate to be paid is loosely noted as “market rate”. This flaw may cost Guyana billions of US dollars. It takes just…