LatAmOil: Guyana exports first crude cargo to Brazil

Guyana has reportedly exported its first cargo of crude oil from the Liza-1 field to an independent refinery in neighbouring Brazil. Citing a source familiar with the deal, Reuters reported last week that the cargo had been shipped by ExxonMobil (US), the operator of the Stabroek block offshore Guyana.

The source, who was not named, said that ExxonMobil had supplied 1mn barrels of crude to Acelen, the independent operator of Brazil’s Mataripe refinery, under a spot deal. He told Reuters that the US giant had loaded the oil onto the Sonangol Portoamboim tanker, which departed from the Liza Destiny floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel at Liza-1 in late January or early February.

The tanker will unload the crude in the ports of Aratu and Madre de Deus in Brazil’s north-eastern Bahia State, the source said.