Skipjack well is a bust for Exxon

Drilling operations on ExxonMobil’s Skipjack prospect, the company’s third well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, have yielded disappointing results even as the United States oil giant continues to work towards commercial pumping from its Liza well in another four years.

“I can confirm that the Skipjack well drilled on the Stabroek Block did not find commercial quantities of hydrocarbons,” ExxobMobil’s Public and Government Affairs Manager Kimberly Brasington told Stabroek News yesterday.

She informed that the Stena Carron drillship, which was used in the Skipjack exploration, will