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Barbados Signs Oil Exploration Agreement With BHP Billiton

Above: Barbados (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean continues to look for oil off its shores, and now Barbados is continuing its exploration with a new agreement. The country announced this week that it had signed two […]

A New $200 Million Caribbean Offshore Oil Exploration Project

Above: the Deepwater Champion By the Caribbean Journal staff US energy giant ExxonMobil is launching its nearly $200 million oil exploration project in the waters off the coast of Guyana. The company’s ship, Deepwater Champion, is at the Starbroek Block […]

Trinidad’s Energy Ministry Awards Pair of Oil Exploration Licences to Petrotrin

Above: Port of Spain By the Caribbean Journal Trinidad’s Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs has signed two oil exploration and production licences with state-owned Petrotrin. The licences cover the Trinidad Northern Areas Block and the North Marine Block. The […]

Grenada and Trinidad Sign Agreement to Cooperate on Oil Exploration

Above: St George’s, Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada and Trinidad have signed a cooperation agreement on energy development, according to Trinidad’s Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs. The framework agreement was signed Sept. 3 by Trinidad Energy Minister […]

Licence Renewed for Bahamas Petroleum Company Oil Exploration, Company Says

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas’ government has renewed the oil exploration licence for offshore oil firm Bahamas Petroleum, the company announced in a statement Monday. The licences were renewed as of Sept. 7, and the company has been […]

Canadian Firm Sagres to Continue Offshore Oil Exploration in Jamaica

Above: An offshore rig By the Caribbean Journal staff Canadian firm Sagres Energy has received an extension on its licences in Jamaica, continuing the firm’s exploration according to three production-sharing agreements with the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica. The three agreements […]

BP Doubles Trinidad Oil Exploration

By the Caribbean Journal staff British Petroleum said it had been awarded a pair of deepwater oil exploration blocks off the Trinidad coast. The two blocks are off of Trinidad’s eastern coast. BP’s Trinidad operations account for more than half […]

Jamaica Begins Oil, Gas Exploration

Above: Group General Manager of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica, Winston Watson (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica has embarked on an oil and gas exploration project, the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica announced this week. The project, which […]

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How Guyana’s Oil Boom Is Turning It Into the Next Big Caribbean Investment Destination

Guyana’s massive oil discoveries are turning to the country into a significant new investment destination in the Americas. Guyana, the headquarters of the Caribbean Community, is already seeing its economy transformed, and questions remain about the future direction of the […]

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Guyana’s Oil Discoveries Are Making It the Caribbean’s Next Big Investment Frontier

Discovery of offshore oil and gas is a major event for Guyana and for the global oil and gas industry, making Guyana, is a small island nation with a population of just over 750,000 people, one the hottest offshore regions […]

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Grenada to Begin Search for Oil

Grenada has announced its intent to begin searching for oil in its waters. Grenada Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Dr. Keith Mitchell announced the endeavor in a national address last week following tributes from IMF, World Bank, CDB and […]

Major Oil Discovery in Trinidad

Above: Port of Spain (CJ Photo) Spain-based energy firm Repsol recently made what Trinidad’s government is calling a “major” oil discovery. The Ministry of Energy said Repsol had discovered 40 million barrels of oil, which is “already on production and […]

Trinidad Awards Onshore Oil Blocks to Three Bidders

Above: Trinidad (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Three companies have successfully bid for a group of onshore oil blocks in Trinidad, the Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs announced. Primera Oil and Gas won its bid for the […]

Belize Reports “Encouraging” Oil Discovery in Orange Walk District

Above: Parliament in Belmopan By the Caribbean Journal staff Maranco Energy Belize Limited, which is currently searching for oil in the Orange Walk District in the country’s northeastern region, has discovered an “encouraging oil show,” according to the government. The […]

Barbados Planning to Award Offshore Oil Drilling Licences to BHP Billiton

Above: Barbados (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados will soon be awarding offshore oil drilling licences to energy firm BHP Billiton, the government announced in a release Tuesday. The licences will be for the Carlisle Bay and Bimshire […]

Grenada: No Oil Feud With Trinidad

Above: the blocks in question (Source: Trinidad Ministry of Energy) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada’s government is denying reports of a conflict with Trinidad and Tobago over oil blocks. The government said it noted an article in the Trinidad […]

St Lucia Waits on Potential Sale of Hess Oil Storage and Transshipment Terminal

Above: the Hess terminal in St Lucia (Photo: Hess) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia is taking a wait-and-see approach on the potential sale of the Hess crude oil refined products and storage terminal at Cul de Sac. Hess […]

Canadian Oil Firm CGX to Begin Offshore Drilling in Guyana

Above: CGX President Stephen Hermstone meeting with Guyanese President Donald Ramotar (Photo: GINA) By the Caribbean Journal staff Canadian oil exploration firm CGX has been cleared to begin drilling one of two wells in the Guyana offshore oil concession, according […]

Guyana, ExxonMobil Talk Offshore Oil

Above: Guyanese President Donald Ramotar with officials from ExxonMobil (Photo: GINA) By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyanese President Donald Ramotar met today with officials from ExxonMobil Exploration, who are in the country for their semi-annual meeting. The two sides discussed […]

Dominica Begins Geothermal Exploration

Above: boiling lake in Dominica (Photo: DT) By Mara Etienne Following talks of testing Dominica’s geothermal resources to determine its potential energy value for the island and others in the region, the country’s government began an exploratory drilling exercise in […]

Report: Billions of Barrels of Bahamian Oil

By the Caribbean Journal staff A report by Ryder Scott commissioned by the Bahamas Petroleum Company has found potentially significant oil resources offshore. According to Ryder Scott’s “Competent Persons Report,” which examined newly-acquired seismic data and previous information, even low-end […]

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The Belize Barrier Reef Gets Some Very Good News

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere has just gotten some very good news. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has decided to remove the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve Network from the List of World Heritage […]

Trinidad, Haiti Sign Energy Pact

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly and Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago have signed a memorandum of understanding on energy cooperation. The MoU provides for “cooperative initiatives in energy, energy security […]

Trinidad’s Persad-Bissessar, Grenada’s Mitchell Meet in Port of Spain

Above: Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Grenada PM Keith Mitchell By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar hosted Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell for talks on Thursday in Port of Spain. The visit marked Mitchell’s first overseas […]

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In St Kitts’ Oldest Town, an Exciting New Caribbean Rum 

They made rum here for more than two centuries, when Old Road was new.   The town of Old Road on St Kitts’ western coast is where the island then called Liamuiga first became part of the New World — […]

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The Caribbean’s Most Interesting Rum Is In Grenada 

GRENADA — Can a rum have a terroir?  It’s a question we’ve been answering in the affirmative for years, focused on the artisanal rummaking of the French West Indies, where the connection between rum and the soil of the sugarcane […]

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The 10 Best Adventure Hotels in the Caribbean

A journey through the rainforest to a Mayan temple. A rugged hike to a 200-foot-wide boiling lake. A dive into the heart of a blue hole.  Far beyond the beach, there’s another side of the Caribbean, of mountains and rainforests […]

A New Green Push in Belize

Above: Belize By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The government of Belize has signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to join the Ten Island Challenge, a partnership initiative between Carbon War Room (CWR) and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). The move signals […]

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