Mother Nature strikes back

As thousands of Guyanese struggle to cope with weeks of widespread flooding and the extensive losses of crops, livestock and livelihoods in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American energy titan, ExxonMobil (XOM) ironically announced its 20th oil and gas discovery offshore.
 Moving ahead with developing the rich Stabroek block, a prized high value asset, ExxonMobil did not bother to even specify yesterday, how much this find at Longtail-3, like the previous at the Uaru-2 well in April, would add to the earlier gross discovered recoverable resource estimate of well over 9 billion barrels of oil and gas, drawn from the deep Atlantic Ocean waters of this poor country turned petro-state.

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