Oct 22, 2024
…4.3 Trillion cubic feet of gas burned Kaieteur News- ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) in 2023 handed over $5.6M in flaring fees to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This was revealed by President of EMGL, Alistair Routledge during the company’s third quarter media conference. The company is required to pay US $50 per tonne of carbon...
Feb 17, 2023
Kaieteur News – The Commonwealth Lawyers Association, in conjunction with LexisNexis, have announced that International lawyer, Ms. Melinda Janki is the recipient of the 6th Commonwealth Law Conference Rule of Law Award, 2023. Janki is a rights activist here and also one of the advocates of a better oil deal between Guyana and ExxonMobil. In...
Feb 06, 2023
– to engage public on restarting operations at Houston Kaieteur News – The High Court in December last year ruled that Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) breached the law to issue a permit to Schlumberger Guyana Inc. to construct a radioactive storage facility at Lot 1 Area ‘X’ Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD), without conducting...
Feb 06, 2023
By Stabroek News February 6, 2023 By way of letter, attorneys for the applicants in the Judicial Review case filed against the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Assessment Board and Schlumberger Guyana Inc (SGI) have written to IMEX Inc requesting an explanation for its recently announced public engagement. In the letter sent to IMEX Inc,...
Feb 05, 2023
Kaieteur News – With plans already in place to welcome ‘Prosperity’—Guyana’s third floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel—ExxonMobil Corporation’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has indicated that it will need its own dumpsite to ensure proper waste management. Just last week, the Exxon affiliate issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking...
Feb 05, 2023
Last Updated on Sunday, 5 February 2023, 21:41 by Denis Chabrol Three persons- who won a High Court case that blocks Slumberger Guyana Inc (SGI) from carrying on radioactive work at its Houston, East Bank Demerara location-have reminded an environmental consultancy that the company could not restart operations unless it is legally permitted to do...
Feb 03, 2023
Last Updated on Friday, 3 February 2023, 6:26 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall Thanks Minister of Natural Resources, Mr. Vickram Bharrat (Minister) for disclosing that the long overdue, much-anticipated, audit report of Exxon’s US$7.3B in expenses is on tap for March. That is, March 2023. What was initially scheduled for September 2022, then December...
Feb 03, 2023
– say oil company did not meet all legal requirements, call for end to pattern of lawlessness Kaieteur News – Two Guyanese women are of the firm conviction that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) breached the law when it issued an environmental permit to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd. (EEPGL) for the US$2B Gas-to-Energy...
Feb 02, 2023
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 February 2023, 21:30 by Denis Chabrol Despite repeated efforts by the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) for a specific date by which government would release the final investment plan and other documents about the gas-to-energy project to parliamentarians, Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Thursday...
Feb 02, 2023
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 February 2023, 22:11 by Denis Chabrol ExxonMobil, which is the operator in the Stabroek Block, would be conducting studies this year about the natural gas deposits that are offshore Guyana, ExxonMobil Guyana’s Projects Manager Anthony Jackson said. “We have committed to develop and submit a gas utilisation study, a gas...
