Confidence, long term strategy needed to reap benefits of oil industry

Chris Pateman-Jones

As doubts persist about Guyana’s readiness for the oil and gas industry, a representative of a UK consultancy firm yesterday said confidence and a sound long-term strategy would see the country reaping the benefits.

“When I look around the world, I see very few opportunities such as the one [you] have here in Guyana, to actually make a true transformational difference and to actually make a difference to local people as opposed to what we often do, which is working on behalf of big oil companies,