Former Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr Vincent Adams on Saturday said ExxonMobil only needs to cut back oil production by 15,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from its last given figures of 120,000 bpd in order to bring flaring into compliance with the Liza-1 permit.
On January 29, Exxon issued a brief statement announcing a gas compression problem on its offshore platform, resulting in it having to temporarily increase flaring above pilot levels in order to maintain safe operations. A few days later, President of ExxonMobil Guyana Alistair Routledge said that oil production had been pared to 120,000 bpd – its previously stated maximum capacity – while gas flaring has increased to 16 million cubic feet per day.