Decommissioning offshore structures is expensive and environmentally damaging – so why is it illegal to leave them where they are?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Guyana’s president, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Sept. 18. Pompeo is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the tiny South American country.
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Tiny Guyana hoped to see unprecedented wealth this year as ExxonMobil’s offshore wells began pumping out crude. Instead, it got a pandemic and political strife. Other oil states are struggling, too.
The oil and gas sector has transformed Newfoundland and Labrador over the past few decades.
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Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil and gas industry is the province’s largest contributor to the economy and will be critically important to its future.
Construction of the Hebron platform - digitalization is disrupting how offshore oil and gas industries conduct and manage operations.
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