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Big pay with low breakevens offshore Guyana

Monday, December 13 2021

Fossil energy – Guyana

With an average volume of 300 million barrels of oil equivalent per discovery and a record 80 percent success rate, the pioneering oil fields offshore Guyana, particularly at the prolific Stabroek Block, continue to deliver big pay with low breakevens.

Mike Cousins, ExxonMobil senior vice president of exploration and new ventures.

S&P Global Platts said in an article last week that while Chevron is starting to make more waves in South America, ExxonMobil’s massive discoveries offshore Guyana and Petrobras’ surge of Brazilian pre-salt production are leading the way.

Entirely led by pre-salt oil growth, Brazil was the only crude-producing country in the Americas to report an increase in crude and condensate production in 2020 as global demand collapsed, the US Energy Information Administration said on December 6.

“But it is Brazil’s neighbor, tiny Guyana, that has really emerged as a new oil player thanks to ExxonMobil’s 21 discoveries and counting in just six years within the Stabroek Block,” Platts said.

Speaking at the recently concluded 23rd World Petroleum Congress in Houston, Mike Cousins, ExxonMobil senior vice president of exploration and new ventures, said what is unfolding in the deep water offshore Guyana is truly remarkable.

“The numbers are incredible. We’ve discovered over 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels in six years. It’s an incredible basin with over 20 discoveries,” Cousins said.

So far, only one of the discoveries is producing — Liza Phase 1, which came online in late 2019 and is now producing about 120,000 barrels of oil per day (b/d). But Liza Phase 2 development is slated to start up in early 2022 and a third development, Payara, should follow in 2024. Each of those is projected to produce 220,000 b/d.

A fourth development, with an anticipated startup in 2025, would be the Yellowtail project with a production capacity of 250,000 b/d.

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Filed Under: ExxonMobil, Guyana, International News, Oil and Gas Tagged With: ExxonMobil, Guyana, Platts, Stabroek Block


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