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A field development plan (FDP) for ExxonMobil’s sixth project in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana was submitted to local authorities last week.

President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge confirmed on Tuesday that the FDP was submitted on October 13, 2023.

“So that has commenced the process on all regulatory fronts,” Routledge told reporters during a press conference at the company’s Georgetown Headquarters.

He said too that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has already been submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is awaiting approval.

“So that’s been an active process, but we’re very much into the formal stages of the regulatory process,” he said.

Production levels at Whiptail are expected to be 250,000 barrels of oil per day.

When it comes on stream by the end of 2027, there will be a total installed capacity to produce 1.2 million barrels of oil per day and the possibility of 10 Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessels in the Stabroek Block

Whiptail is the last project to be conducted by Exxon in the prolific Stabroek Block. Discovery at Whiptail was announced in 2021.

The Stabroek Block is 6.6 million acres (26,800 square kilometers).

The Whiptail project will see Exxon and its co-venturers, Hess and CNOCC, spending roughly US$13 billion to bring the project to life.

The Police are investigating an incident where two men, including a security guard, shot at each other at the ‘Cheers and Beers’ bar located on Alexander Street between Bar and Thomas Street, Kitty.

Police Headquarters noted that the incident occurred at about 04:30 hrs on October 15. It is alleged that Constable Grant, who was on duty at the Kitty Police Station, reported that he heard three loud explosions that appeared to be gunshots.

As a result, cops who were on patrol duty in the area visited the bar and spoke with 32-year-old Vernon Hardin, a security guard who was on duty at the bar.

Hardin, who has a license to carry a gun, told the Police that he was at the bar armed with a licensed Taurus 9mm pistol along with 14 live rounds of ammunition when an “identifiable man” approached him and discharged two rounds at him.

Hardin said he immediately discharged a round at the suspect, during which the suspect dropped the firearm and escaped.

“The suspected firearm, which was on the ground in the vicinity of the bar, was picked up by a Police rank, and on examining it, it was observed to be one suspected.45 pistol, along with one magazine containing eight live 45 rounds of ammunition,” the Police statement noted.

The scene was photographed and processed by the Police, but no spent shells were found. The suspected firearm was taken to the Kitty Police Station, where it was dusted for fingerprints.

Hardin’s firearm was also seized; the Police are yet to arrest the suspect.