Guyana is in talks with Qatar, Britain, the United Arab Emirates and India on the possibility of directly allocating offshore blocks for oil and gas exploration in parallel with a bidding round this year, President Irfaan Ali said on Monday in Trinidad, according to Reuters.
Ali had previously said here that some blocks would be set aside for bilateral deals but Monday was the first time he was explicit about which countries could be in the arrangement.
Ali had interestingly first mentioned bilateral arrangements on October 19, 2022 on the occasion of the formal announcement that the United Kingdom was lifting the visa requirement for Guyanese.
