Baker Hughes has been awarded a multi-year contract from ExxonMobil Guyana to provide specialty chemicals and related services for its Uaru and Whiptail offshore greenfield developments in Guyana’s Stabroek Block, one of the most prolific oil discoveries of recent years.
The contract includes all topsides, subsea, water injection and utility chemicals for the Errea Wittu and Jaguar FPSO vessels, which are currently under development, and are targeted to begin production in 2026 and 2027 respectively. Baker Hughes has established local supply chains to create a reliable and efficient source of chemicals to address the unique needs of these developments.
Uaru and Whiptail are ExxonMobil Guyana’s fifth and sixth projects in the country, where it has been producing oil for more than five years. The two developments will include up to 20 drill centres and 92 production and injection wells. Each FPSO will have a capacity of 250,000 barrels per day, bringing the country’s total daily production capacity to approximately 1.3mn bbl. According to its recently-released 2024 results, Exxon Mobil achieved record production in Guyana last year.
Since “first oil” at the offshore Liza Phase 1 project five years ago, Guyana is now the third largest per capital oil producer in the world and is seeing its offshore sector expand rapidly, which in turn is spurring significant economic growth in the country.
Baker Hughes has a strong history of localisation in Guyana, opening a multimodal supercenter in Georgetown in 2022. The company also provides a variety of services and equipment to operators in the country, including turbomachinery for ExxonMobil Guyana’s FPSO fleet and production chemicals for the Liza Unity vessel.
“ExxonMobil Guyana and Baker Hughes share a long history of supporting Guyana’s energy sector, and we look forward to working together to write its next chapter,” said Amerino Gatti, Executive Vice President, Oilfield Services & Equipment at Baker Hughes. “Our experience operating across the country’s energy supply chain and unmatched expertise in oilfield and industrial chemicals make Baker Hughes uniquely suited to support complex FPSO operations such as these.”
