Exxon Mobil Corporation Announces Sixth Oil Discovery Offshore Guyana
January 05, 2018 at 02:00 pm
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Exxon Mobil Corporation announced positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015. The Ranger-1 well discovery adds to previous world-class discoveries at Liza, Payara, Snoek, Liza Deep and Turbot, which are estimated to total more than 3.2 billion recoverable oil-equivalent barrels. ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd. began drilling the Ranger-1 well on Nov. 5, 2017 and encountered approximately 230 feet (70 meters) of high-quality, oil-bearing carbonate reservoir. The well was safely drilled to 21,161 feet (6,450 meters) depth in 8,973 feet (2,735 meters) of water. Following completion of the Ranger-1 well, the Stena Carron drillship will move to the Pacora prospect, 4 miles from the Payara discovery. Additional exploration drilling is planned on the Stabroek Block for 2018, including potential appraisal drilling at the Ranger discovery.
Exxon Mobil Corporation is an oil group organized around 3 areas of activity:
- refining and distribution (85.8% of net sales): 5.5 million barrels of oil products (diesel fuel, gasoline, fuel oil, lubricants, motor oils, etc.) sold per day in 2023;
- exploration and production of hydrocarbons (7.6%; worldwide leader): 2.4 million barrels of oil produced per day and 219.1 million m3 of natural gas produced per day;
- petrochemical (6.6%): primarily oils, aromas, alcohols, ethylene, elastomers, propylene, and polymers (19.4 Mt sold in 2023) for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, textile, electrical, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (38%), Canada (8.7%), the United Kingdom (7%), Singapore (4.6%), France (4.4%), Australia (3%), Belgium (2.9 %), Germany (2.8%) and other (28.6%).