Civil society group questions audit of US$7.3b in ExxonMobil expenses

Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat (second from left) and Chateram Ramdihal (third from left) of Ramdihal and Haynes with the signed agreement for the RHVE audit. (Ministry of Natural Resources photo)

Civil society group, the Oil and Gas Guyana Network (OGGN) has raised questions about the depth of an audit of US$7.3b in ExxonMobil expenses for the years 2018 to 2020 but said that even the basic findings warrant a full-scale forensic examination being commissioned by the government.

In a letter in yesterday’s Stabroek News OGGN noted that the Ramdihal, Haynes, Vitality Consulting, and Eclisar Financial & Professional (RHVE) with Martindale Consulting and SGS encompassed 260,000 transactions, totaling US$7.3 billion, for the Stabroek Block for the period 2018 to 2020 and was completed in 4 months.