ExxonMobil seeking approval for 8th and 9th oil projects

Mar 20, 2026 News

…to submit FDP and application soon

ExxonMobil’s new headquarters at Ogle, ECD.

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) is accelerating the pace of project development in Guyana. With seven projects currently under its belt, the company is aggressively pursuing licencing for its eighth and ninth projects in the Stabroek Block.

On Thursday, Country Manager Alistair Routledge revealed that Exxon is expected to submit a Field Development Plan (FDP) for the eighth project, Longtail before the end of this week to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

In the meantime, he said, “We just submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and you should see an announcement in some of the papers…we are going to begin the 60 day consultation process so sharing all of these studies with people across the country, giving people the opportunity to ask questions and to raise any concerns to ensure that those are then fed back into the EIA process and that when we do progress the project that it recognises all of those concerns…”

To this end, he announced that the first of the engagement session will take place in Mabaruma, Region One on April 13 with another session planned for April 28 at Umana Yana, in Georgetown. As such he said, “At that point we will have both the environmental permitting process coming close towards the end of its process and the Field Development Plan and application for the production licence advancing with the Ministry Of Natural Resources and GGMC.”

Meanwhile, Exxon is simultaneously building a ninth project which aims to develop the gas resources in the Haimara discovery. He explained, “For those of you who were at the energy conference back in February, we began to talk about what could potentially be project number nine which will be anchored on the Haimara discovery in the south east part of the Stabroek Block.”

Like Longtail, Haimara will anchor nearby discoveries. “We are gaining confidence that that project can meet the sort of investment hurdles that we would expect that the government would expect us to achieve and so we are maturing that,” Routledge told reporters.

To this end, the Country Manager expects a FDP to be produced for the project and submitted to government in another 12 months. The company plans to submit an application for environmental authorisation to the EPA in the coming weeks.

Currently, four of the seven sanctioned projects are producing oil offshore Guyana. Routledge said Exxon had a “strong start” to 2026 with an impressive daily production recorded in January of 916,ooo barrels per day (bpd).

The other projects under development are likely to be delivered ahead of schedule with the fifth Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO), Errea Wittu under construction in Singapore almost complete. “All of the modules have been lifted on to the topsides and now this whole operation to integrate the pipework and the wiring and to ensure that everything work together is ongoing. We anticipate that later this year the FPSO will sail to Guyana and before the end of the year we expect Uaru to startup and that will be consistent with the previous projects, all ahead of the original budget schedule and indeed ahead on budget too,” Routledge explained. The sixth FPSO, Jaguar, also under construction in Singapore is making good progress and is expected to arrive next year for startup of production before the end of the year. A seventh project, Hammerhead, approved in September 2025 will come on stream by 2029.

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