Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd. (Esso) has been added as a party to the challenge brought by University of Guyana scientist Troy Thomas and conservationist Quadad De Freitas, who have filed an action against the State in which they argue that the greenhouse gases emitted from petroleum operations in the Liza Phase 1 are hazardous not only to the environment, but the health and wellbeing of citizens and must be stopped.
Esso is a subsidiary of US oil company ExxonMobil, the operator of the Stabroek Block.
Thomas and De Freitas are contending that Esso has started to produce oil in the Liza Phase 1 Development Project, approximately 120 miles offshore in Guyana’s exclusive economic zone and is emitting greenhouse gases that would not otherwise have been emitted.