Guyana

ExxonMobil, which rode the wave for worldwide exploration last year in part because of the prolific Guyana portfolio, announced another discovery offshore the South American country, where recoverable resources already were estimated at more than 8 billion boe.

Hess Corp. is once again directing the lion’s share, more than 80%, of its planned $3 billion capital expenditure (capex) budget for 2020 to high-return investments in the Bakken Shale and offshore Guyana.

ExxonMobil, which rode the wave for worldwide exploration last year in part because of the prolific Guyana portfolio, announced another discovery offshore the South American country, where recoverable resources already were estimated at more than 8 billion boe.

Hess Corp. is once again directing the lion’s share, more than 80%, of its planned $3 billion capital expenditure (capex) budget for 2020 to high-return investments in the Bakken Shale and offshore Guyana.

Natural gas and oil explorers discovered up to 13 billion boe worldwide in 2019, the most volumes since 2015, with most in deepwater and three-quarters weighted to gas.

Worldwide oil and natural gas exploration is moving up, rising by 23% year/year in 2017 to 546 wells after plunging during the commodity price downturn in late 2014, according to 1Derrick.