Tullow’s find of heavy crude oil raises viability question

While underscoring that its two finds so far offshore Guyana were heavy crude oil and it will now have to assess the viability of the project, the United Kingdom-based Tullow Oil has assured that it is not thinking of leaving.

The company yesterday said that it intends to  have a shore base in Guyana next year, even as its stock on the global market fell its steepest in the last two decades yesterday.

“We still have a lot of interests in Guyana. We need to complete the studies on Jethro and Joe. We’re drilling Carapa in the Kanuku licence right now…And we expect to have a full programme in Guyana,” Tullow’s Head of Communications, George Cazenove said, in response to questions from Stabroek News yesterday.