Riscos na corrida pelo petróleo nas “Guianas”
Finanças Riscos na corrida pelo petróleo nas “Guianas” Notícias do Bitcoin Ethereum FILE – A ship creates an artificial island by extracting offshore sand to create a coastal port for Direitos autorais 2023 The Associated Press. Todos os direitos reservados Em outubro 23rd, Chevron announced its acquisition of Hess for $53 billion. Its most prized asset: the Stabroek offshore oil block, near the coasts of Guyana. The area has become the epicentre of a new boom, as industry giants scramble for a cut in the action. In the last decade, more than 11 billion barrels of conventional oil and gas have been discovered. Rival ExxonMobil XOM had already made a landing in Guyana, which is producing 400,000 barrels per day with partners Hess Corp and China National Offshore Oil Corporation Ltd. Indeed, the two US oil giants will become partners after the acquisition. The recent discoveries off the coast of Guyana have already started to have an outsized effect on a small economy. It was once one of South Americas poorest countries, on par with Bolivia—in GDP per capita terms. Guyana has overtaken the region, and most of the growth has just taken place since 2020, after an early bump in 2005. It remains to be seen to what extent