Regulatory News
News and Resources impacting the regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry in Guyana
Retraction of 2020 guidelines will not affect EIAs…
(OilNow) As public scoping meetings continue in Guyana ahead of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the US$900 million gas-to-energy project, some concerns have been raised about the…
Guyana looking to establish beneficial ownership r…
Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat has revealed that the Government is moving to create a beneficial ownership register. This was disclosed during his address to Guyana…
Guyana regulators internationally trained to measu…
Guyana’s multi-billion-barrel hydrocarbon discoveries and the start of oil production operations have seen institutions playing being trained to monitor and regulate a sector that was practically…
Exxon to pay US$1.3M for excess flaring –Vice Pr…
Vice President, Hon. Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo today said the Government expects to rake in about US$1.3 million in fees from ExxonMobil for excess flaring. This was revealed during a press…
EPA Issues a Modified Environmental Permit to EEPG…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wishes to advise that the Environmental Permit for the Liza 1 Development Project, Offshore Guyana, was recalled and modified to include specific regulatory…
Notice to the Public - Yellowtail Development Pr…
Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL)has submitted an Application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Environmental Authorisation to undertake the following project…
Open bidding process for the awarding of new oil b…
– Says Government may consider managing some blocks His Excellency Dr Irfaan Ali said that when the Government is ready to award new oil blocks, the process will be done transparently to…
Guyanese entitled to know how much is being earned…
In keeping with its commitment to ensure that all revenues from Guyana’s multi-billion-barrel oil resources are accounted for, President Irfaan Ali said on Thursday his government is now moving to…
Revised MoU signed between GNBS and GEA to ensure…
(DPI) The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) recently revised and fortified a memorandum of understanding (MOU) it signed with the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) in 2014. The revised MOU,…