The fairy-tale saga of Guyana’s first lucrative oil find in 2015 which has catapulted the nation seemingly overnight into a whirlwind of economic development on the back of later similar finds and which many here now take for granted, might never have been a reality were it not for the tenacity of a couple of ExxonMobil employees, an engineer and a geoscientist.
This is what Kevin Crowley, reporter writing for Bloomberg Markets on oil & gas matters, uncovered when he proceeded to get a glimpse of the backstory into the first Liza find, the beginning of what would turn out to be several remarkable subsequent discoveries.
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