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Big Oil’s Favorite Climate Change Solution

Big Oil’s Favorite Climate Change Solution

This year’s United Nations climate summit will be the biggest in history–and the first held in a major petrostate. Host United Arab Emirates wants to bring the fossil fuel industry into the climate fold, but to make that happen requires wide deployment of carbon capture and storage. Proponents argue the new technology could help preserve…
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Suriname-Guyana Basin ranked 2nd most prospective in the world for oil

THE EARLY EXPLORATION Amsterdam, nov 2023– Onshore exploration. In both Suriname and Guyana, oil seeps were known from the 1800s, into the 1900s. Exploration in Suriname discovered oil at a 160 m depth while drilling for water in a schoolyard in Calcutta Village. The onshore Tambaredjo oil field (15-17 oAPI oil) was discovered in 1968. First oil began in…
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Why Suriname may and could matter

Why Suriname may and could matter

eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 15 nov 2023– according to the United States Geological Survey, an estimated 13.6 billion barrels of oil and 32 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could lie in the Guyana-Suriname Basin, making it the 2nd most prospective, underexplored offshore oil basins in the world.  Experts have long suspected that the basin may share a similar…
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A parliamentary delegation from Canada arrived in Guyana commencing a five-day visit aimed at fortifying the diplomatic relations

Canadian parliamentarians arrive in Guyana for high-level talks

eyesonbrasil / oilnow A four-member parliamentary delegation from Canada arrived in Guyana on November 14, commencing a five-day visit aimed at fortifying and deepening the diplomatic relations between the two nations. The visit was facilitated through the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).  Led by prominent Canadian parliamentarians, the delegation comprises Alexandra Mendès, Assistant Deputy Speaker, and…
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Petronas: Suriname has a major oil discovery at the Roystonea-1 exploration well in block 52

Petronas: Suriname has a major oil discovery at the Roystonea-1 exploration well in block 52

The successful drilling, carried out in an offshore location about 185 kilometers from the coast and at a water depth of 904 meters, has revealed several oil-bearing campanian sandstone reservoir packages, the company announced on November 2.  The Roystonea-1 well reached a total depth of 5,315 meters. Petronas said that the discovery is poised to…
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Petrobras production hits 3.98 million barrels a day – CEO

Petrobras production hits 3.98 million barrels a day – CEO

Production at Brazil’s state-run Petrobras hit close to four million barrels a day in this quarter, according to its chief executive officer, Jean-Paul Prates.  In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Prates said Petrobras began producing oil in 1953 with just shy of three thousand barrels a day.  “Today, @petrobras produces more than a thousand…
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Suriname’s oil-driven development dilemma

The carbon negative South American country bides its time ahead of potential oil boom The FDI angle: In early June, Suriname’s state-owned company Staatsolie hosted an energy, oil and gas summit in the capital, Paramaribo. The aim was to “bring Suriname to the attention of the world” and promote investment into the country’s nascent offshore…
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Total CEO for Suriname visit, oil development discussions high on agenda

All details will be revealed to Suriname’s President on Block 58’s development prospects, said TotalEnergies’ Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanné.  Speaking at the Barclays CEO-Energy Power Conference being held in New York, Pouyanné said that the oil field is big enough “to launch a sizeable deepwater development” but held other details close.  He is due for…
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Venezuela’s Oil Industry Is Broken

Now It’s Breaking the Environment Isayen Herrera // Sheyla UrdanetaPhotographs //Adriana Loureiro Fernandez Explosive gas flares from nearby oil wells spew an oily, flammable residue on the plants. The leaves burn, dry up and wither. There is no poison that can fight the oil,” he said. “When it falls, everything dries up.” Venezuela’s oil industry, which…
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Big Oil has a do-or-die decade ahead because of climate change

The 2020s are poised to be to energy firms what the 2010s were to utilities—disruptive As revolutionary slogans go, it hardly had the resonance of ¡No pasarán! But when Repsol, a Spanish oil company, said in December it would reduce the net carbon footprint of everything it produces to zero within 30 years, it marked the most powerful…
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