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 by Staff Writers Cayenne (AFP) Feb 28, 2019
French oil giant Total has halted an offshore oil exploration project in French Guiana after months of drilling produced no results. In December, Total said it would start drilling on a maritime licence covering an exploration area 150 kilometres (93 miles) off the coast of the French territory in South America. "We did not find any hydrocarbons with this drilling and we stopped operations earlier this week," Olivier Wattez, general director of Total's local affiliate TEPGF, told AFP late Wednesday. He said the company had authorisation to carry out five drilling operations, but the first had to be conclusive for it to continue work on the rest. The licence expires in June, but Wattez said Total could no longer apply for an extension or another licence because of a 2017 law progressively phasing out oil and gas exploration on French territory. The permit covered 24,000 square kilometres beyond the Guyanese continental shelf, and the drilling area was at a depth of 2,000 metres. The project had faced challenges from environmental groups concerned over potential damage to coral reefs and marine life. Neighbouring Suriname and nearby Guyana have recently discovered large offshore oil reserves attracting interest from energy giants like US company ExxonMobil, BP and Norway's Statoil. ff/ao/evs/pma/js/dl
UK police arrest activists at oil, gas industry meet London (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 British police arrested nine environmental activists who tried to disrupt an international conference of oil and gas bigwigs in London by gluing themselves to the venue doors on Wednesday. Officers detained the protesters after they targeted the annual International Petroleum (IP) Week gathering of industry executives, being held at the Intercontinental Park Lane Hotel. "Officers attended and discovered a number of people had glued themselves to windows," a spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan ... read more
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