Kaieteur News – Former Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams believes that the consultant hired by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) to conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for its sixth project, must inform the nation of the likely devastation to these shores from an oil spill. Dr. Adams, a Petroleum and Environmental…
Articles by Dr. Tarron Khemraj appearing on his business page in SN 2023/09/24 and SN 2023/09/10 require some comments, since the use of ‘Balances from Abroad’ imply that Commercial Banks have readily available sources of foreign exchange that are liquid balances and can be deployed to make good any foreign exchange ‘shortage’ affecting the Private…
Q2: What makes Mr. Bhulai qualified to speak about monitoring the deep water oil fields? A2: Mr. Bhulai is qualified to speak about monitoring the deep water oil fields because he is a trained chemical engineer. Chemical engineering deals with monitoring the flow of matter, in this case oil and gas. He also used to…
(18) Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Host by Charles Sugrim | September 28, 2023 | Kaieteur Radio – YouTube
Maya Angelou, American literary giant and civil rights activist once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time”. Unfortunately, when Esso showed us who they were from the first decade of this century, we not only did not believe them, but successive governments spinelessly conspired with them to deprive current…
Q1: What are Dr. Adams’ qualifications and background in the oil and gas sector? A1: Dr. Adams has a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Guyana. He worked for the Guyana Water Authority drilling water wells across Guyana. He has a master’s degree in hydrogeology and studied petroleum and geological…
It would be perfectly understandable if the public is totally confused over the issue of the audit of the expenses claimed by Esso, Hess and CNOOC for the period 1999 – 2017. Various reports in the media suggest that the UK entity contracted to audit the costs reported by the consortium were overstated by US$214…
Guyana’s oil economy is now mirroring its lopsided oil contract. The world’s highest growing economy in 2022 is not spreading the fruits of growth evenly across Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Services. Indeed, the rich versus poor is mirrored by oil and non-oil economy – the high growth oil sector registering 90% growth in the value-added income…
Recently, the World Bank, using the Gross National Income (GNI) per capita measure, reclassified Guyana as a high-income country. GNI is the sum of all income earned by a country, irrespective of where the income was earned. The justification for this elevation into the highest GNI category is largely based on the impact of foreign…
