Following the ExxonMobil oil discovery in the Stabroek Block 120 miles off Guyana’s shore, Minister of Governance and National Patrimony within the Ministry of the Presidency, Raphael Trotman attended the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative (EGCI) meetings hosted by the United States’ State Department.
These meeting are intended to aid in the development of this country’s capacity to “responsibly” manage its oil and gas resources.
According to a press release from the Ministry, the ECGI is a “US Department of State – led, US interagency effort to provide a wide range of technical and capacity building assistance to the host governments of select countries that are on the verge of
