LatAmOil: Guyanese inspectors to take responsibility for oil certification

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is prepared to assume responsibility for testing crude oil extracted from the country’s offshore fields this year, ahead of the planned launch of the Liza-2 development project.

GNBS has been involved in the testing of crude since December 2019, when the country’s first oilfield, Liza-1, began commercial production. However, it has been working with other government agencies and partners to build and expand its capacities on this front so that it would be able to manage independently. It has said previously that it hoped to take the reins in 2022, and it announced in a statement dated January 14 that it had been able to meet this goal.

This process involved the issuance of an official order authorising GNBS to measure and certify the crude oil being lifted onto the Liza Destiny, the floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) unit installed at Liza-1. Since then, bureau inspectors have been travelling to the vessel on a rotational basis to carry out monitoring operations.