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| Guyana and disputed the Essequibo region (red hash marks) |
I posted about Guyana once four years ago. Today we have a report from RT (aka Russia Today). Looks like we might have another minor war coming.
The border between Venezuela and Guyana is under dispute. Nobody much cared about this patch of jungle until a giant oil company discovered oil there. Now Madura, the commie dictator of Venezuela, wants it, and we, the USA, are naturally opposed to this because we hate commies. And we want the oil for ourselves.
Looking at this I am wondering whether it might be cheaper and easier to get oil from miles below the surface of the ocean rather than trying to get drilling equipment and pipelines into the middle of a jungle. I just don't know. Drill ships are expensive. But so is any kind of construction in a jungle.
Even if Madura could somehow take over the disputed region, I doubt whether he would be able to get any oil out of there. I mean he has pretty much destroyed Venezuela's oil industry.
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| Venezuela production of crude oil in oil barrels, 1965-2019 |
Maybe with enough explosives they could get the oil to leak into the Essequibo river and just skim it off down at the ocean. That way they would reap the lighter valuable oil and just let the heavy bunker oil sit on the bottom of the river & ocean.
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