Oil and gas sector

Guyana has the legal means to deal with law-breaking ExxonMobil Guyana Limited

News EditorApril 14, 2024April 15, 202403 mins

Kaieteur News on 13 April reported, ‘ExxonMobil, EPA a no-show again at Natural Resources Parliamentary meeting’ (https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2024/04/13/exxonmobil-epa-a-no-show-again-at-natural-resources-parliamentary-meeting/). Through your pages, I call on our elected parliamentarians and staff of the National Assembly to use the legal procedures to require both ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) and the EPA to obey the law of the land. Standing…

Critical Examination of the Ali Administration’s Oversight in the Oil and Gas Sector: Evaluating Broken Commitments and Vice President Jagdeo’s Limitations

News EditorMarch 1, 2024March 6, 2024010 mins

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 122 – March 1, 2024 Introduction The Ali Administration has been promising continually that an independent, competent Petroleum Commission will be appointed to oversee the operations of the oil and gas sector. But like it has done in relation to the confirmation of…

Ability to service burden of debt relies almost exclusively on Guyana’s share of profit oil

News EditorAugust 10, 2023August 16, 202307 mins

A letter entitled “Notions that the level of borrowing is reckless are far-fetched” penned by Mr. Bhagwandin was published earlier this week in Stabroek News (August 8, 2023). The backdrop to this letter is as follows. The National Assembly approved, last week, a new debt ceiling to facilitate greater borrowing. Guyana’s domestic public debt ceiling…

Explore Guyana’s EITI Country Report – FY 2020

News EditorJuly 5, 2023February 15, 202411 mins

All files available at: https://www.gyeiti.org/news/gyeiti-report-fy2020-final

Govt. now siding with ExxonMobil to avoid renegotiating oil deal

News EditorMarch 29, 2023July 2, 202308 mins

Though Guyana’s blossoming petroleum sector is in desperate need of pruning to ensure the fruits satisfy the needs of the local populace, the country’s leaders have not been hearkening to their respective roles. This much can be said, particularly about Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo, who is tasked with management of the local petroleum, according…

Local Content – Embracing our national interest

News EditorJanuary 17, 2020February 5, 2024010 mins

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 82 – January 17, 2020 Today’s column returns to the issue of Local Content Policy which appears either to have been drowned out by the excitement of First Oil or in which interest seems to have ebbed – a pattern since the Local…

Why Ring-fencing matters and why it does not?

News EditorJuly 5, 2019February 5, 2024010 mins

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 68 – July 5, 2019 Introduction This column has had an extensive rest – more than half the year while more and more of the defects and inadequacies of the infamous “ExxonMobil” Petroleum Agreement have been exposed. Paradoxically, it seems that it is…

What is EPA’s evacuation plan and/or advice when citizens suffer from hazardous effects of chemicals of unknown origins?

Renegotiations, referendums and reality – response to Ram & McRae’s Survey

Dominic Gaskin has joined with the consortium against Guyana

Is Exxon implying that its engineering skills permits its deep-water oil extraction at speeds in excess of the safe working limits?

DPI did not issue a correction of the erroneous mention of 18,000 Guyanese on oil rigs

Survey shows overwhelming support for renegotiation of Petroleum Agreement

Guyana has the legal means to deal with law-breaking ExxonMobil Guyana Limited

Critical Examination of the Ali Administration’s Oversight in the Oil and Gas Sector: Evaluating Broken Commitments and Vice President Jagdeo’s Limitations

Explore Guyana’s EITI Country Report – FY 2020

Local Content – Embracing our national interest

Why Ring-fencing matters and why it does not?