NASSAU, BAHAMAS — While the Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) oil exploration activities in The Bahamas may have ended for now, attorneys were back in court yesterday arguing over an application by the […]
While finally moving to explain the government’s rationale for the selection of Wales, West Bank Demerara as the site of an ambitious gas-to-shore project, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced plans for […]
Attorney Melinda Janki had last year urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to allow ExxonMobil and its partners to produce higher than 120,000 barrels of oil per day from the Liza-1 […]
Exxon’s oil platform has experienced a gas compression problem forcing it to flare gas above pilot levels. Exxon this afternoon issued the following statement which said “There was a technical issue regarding […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Environmentalists who have been lobbying against exploratory oil drilling in Bahamian waters yesterday called it “distressing” and “concerning” that the government would move to establish the area surrounding Bahamas […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) yesterday again fired back at what it called “a series of half-baked allegations” regarding its insurance policies for its drilling activities, noting that by April The Bahamas […]
ExxonMobil has started drilling operations at the Bulletwood-1 well site in the controversial offshore Canje block. “The first well in the Canje block, Bulletwood-1 was spudded at the end of last month […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Supreme Court Justice Petra Hanna-Weekes today granted applicants leave to seek judicial review of the government’s approvals for Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) to drill an exploratory well in Bahamian […]
The large oil discoveries offer Suriname special perspectives for sustainable development. “In the government’s view, the proceeds from natural resources, including oil, will have to go to the Surinamese people, and all preconditions […]
The Dutch news site NU.nl reports that in Suriname, except for Russia, the most oil and gas discoveries have been found this year. In recent months, almost 1.39 billion barrels of new […]
