Opinion

Introduction Today’s column addresses the “cost-price relation”, likely to emerge as Guyana transforms its oil and gas “discovery” into an industrial success. To remind readers, this is the third of four features of Guyana’s “discovery” singled out for further amplification. The present column starts with cost and continues with price next week. Clearly, at this…

Introduction Today’s column is primarily aimed at amplifying those references, which were made last week to the dynamic features of Guyana’s ‘potentially massive’ oil and natural gas discovery. To recall, the four features mentioned, were 1) the physical/geological characteristics of the discovery; 2) going forward, the ownership, control, and organizational responsibility for producing and exporting…

In today’s column I introduce the second topic in the series appraising Guyana’s economy in the coming time of oil and gas production and export. This topic will be presented in two parts. First, I provide a brief delineation of the oil and gas discovery, based on company releases and reportage in industry publications. Second,…

Introduction Based on the medium and long-term outlook of the world’s energy market, today’s column introduces two further policy lessons to guide Guyana’s planning for future oil and gas production and export. These are 1) the anticipated fuels mix over the long-term (to 2040); and 2) the probable global market impact of a stricter regimen…

The question I respond to in today’s column is: Does the prevailing world energy outlook offer useful policy lessons for Guyana’s benefit, in anticipation of its oil and gas production coming on stream in the early 2020s? The demand/supply appraisal of that market, which was presented in my two previous columns suggests that there may…

IntroductionLast’s week column identified several key trends on the demand side of the global energy market. This was done in order to contextualize Guyana’s future insertion into this market, when its production and export of oil and natural gas come on stream in the early 2020s. To complete this contextualization, today’s column considers the supply…

Introduction Today I begin to address the third and final sub-sector in this long-running series of columns on the extractive industries sector of Guyana. That is, the coming time of oil and natural gas production and export, which are about 5-7 years away. So far, I have considered 1) the mining sub-sector (December 27, 2015-February…

Introduction There is a formidable body of literature devoted to economic theorizing on the efficacy of local content requirements (LCRs) policies generally, and in developing countries specifically. Notably, there is perhaps an even more formidable body of empirical studies examining the operations of LCRs in the oil and gas sector over the past four decades….