Gov’t mum on selection of oil marketer

Vickram Bharrat

More than four months after deciding to go back to tendering to find a marketer for Guyana’s oil, the government is silent on if a firm has been selected.

Although the Ministry of Natural Resources on Friday formally announced that it had received payment for this country’s sixth oil lift, in keeping with its commitment to “transparency and accountability,” it has repeatedly failed to fulfill commitments to shed light on the outcome of the process to select a marketer and the current sales regime being used for this country’s oil lifts.