A infografia mostra as descobertas petrolíferas e os blocos de exploração ao largo da costa da Guiana.
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Riquezas potenciais ao largo da costa da Guiana

July 9, 2020 - A Guiana, um dos países mais pobres da América do Sul, pode vir a ser
um dos mais ricos do mundo após a descoberta pela ExxonMobil
de enormes reservas que podem valer $100.000 milhões.

The oilfield that ExxonMobil discovered five years ago is about 200km (125 miles) off the coast of Guyana, a country of 780,000 people located in the northeastern corner of South America.

The oil is of the highly coveted light sweet crude variety, and it is easily accessible. Some say that by the middle of this decade, Guyana could already be pumping more oil out of the earth per capita than even Kuwait.

For the current year, the government in Georgetown issued a pre-coronavirus forecast of oil revenues in the neighbourhood of $300 million. The U.S. ambassador to the country said that Guyana could become the “richest country in the hemisphere and potentially the richest country in the world.”

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PUBLISHED: 09/07/2020; STORY: Graphic News
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