Suriname’s Coming Oil Boom
October 24th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Suriname’s coming oil boom: As Paramaribo, Suriname, flooded with shin-high water during a rainstorm in June, hundreds of taxis jostled for space on a recently paved street on the outskirts of the capital city. Passengers in suits disembarked alongside an overgrown canal. The visitors, some of whom had come […]
Read more »Suriname Oil Boom Back On Track As New Discoveries Excite Investors
November 27th, 2024
Via Brazil Energy Insight, a report on Suriname’s oil industry: Suriname, struggling with political unrest and a debt crisis, pins hopes on its oil sector after TotalEnergies delayed the billion-dollar final investment decision for Block 58. Latest appraisal drilling confirms that Block 58 could contain as much as 6.5 billion barrels of exploitable oil resources, […]
Read more »Suriname’s Unorthodox Plan To Finance The Protection of Its Forests
August 25th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Suriname’s unorthodox plan to finance the protection of its forests by trading ‘sovereign carbon’: When Guyana’s president was asked by a BBC journalist earlier this year about the South American country’s oil exploration and associated carbon emissions, the exchange heated up. “Let me stop you right there,” […]
Read more »Suriname: Selling Its Gold and Timber – at the Cost of Tribal Land Rights
February 26th, 2024
Via The Guardian, commentary on how Suriname’s claim to fame as the most forested in the world already been fatally undermined by increased logging and mining: “Welcome to Suriname – the most forested country in the world!” reads a billboard above the entrance of Suriname’s international airport terminal. Numerous signs remind travellers that more than 90% of […]
Read more »TotalEnergies Expands Its Suriname Presence
December 16th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, a report on TotalEnergies growing activity in Suriname as it takes a new offshore exploration license: TotalEnergies’ presence in Suriname. Credit: TotalEnergies TotalEnergies and its partners QatarEnergy and Petronas have signed a production sharing contract for Block 64 with Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the State-owned oil company of Suriname. Block 64 was awarded […]
Read more »‘Black Gold’ For Guyana And Suriname: Blessing Or Curse?
October 17th, 2022
Via Oil & Gas Daily, an article on Guyana and Suriname resource potential: Emerging as potential oil powers while the world seeks to wean itself off planet-warming fossil fuels, poverty-stricken South American neighbors Guyana and Suriname say they have to cash in while they can. The former Dutch colonies are among the world’s most tree-covered countries, […]
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