Saipem has started offshore installation work on GranMorgu, and Petronas has pushed Block 52's discovered resources past a billion barrels of oil equivalent. Suriname's offshore is no longer a promise — it is a construction site.
Stabroek production hit 926,000 barrels per day in February. With the Uaru project starting late this year, Guyana will pass one million — and preview the scale of what Suriname's own decade could hold.
The Fund's first Article IV consultation under the Simons government praises the oil trajectory but flags pre-election spending and warns inflation will only return to single digits by end-2026.
A US$516 million bond and a US$1.6 billion syndicated loan from eighteen lenders — how Suriname's state oil company financed its 20 percent of GranMorgu, and what it signals about the country's creditworthiness.
Suriname's state oil company reports its strongest first half on record, driven by higher output and the momentum of its GranMorgu stake.
The Fund's first Article IV consultation under the Simons government praises the oil trajectory but flags pre-election spending and warns inflation will only return to single digits by end-2026.
As the operational-phase service contracts go out to tender, local content stops being a slogan and becomes a measurable outcome for Suriname.
The Fund's first Article IV consultation under the Simons government praises the oil trajectory but flags pre-election spending and warns inflation will only return to single digits by end-2026.
In a frontier market with no playbook, timing matters. But timing without execution is just a good story at a bar.
A step-by-step guide from Wimpel's research desk — what documents are required, which categories are open, and how to avoid the common errors that sink applications.
Twelve months in, the first female presidency has delivered stability and continuity on oil. What it has not yet delivered is the institutional architecture the oil decade requires. The clock is not sympathetic.
On the pattern of Caribbean entrepreneurs who identify the opportunity three years early and then wait for someone else to prove it first.
Entrepreneurs who cannot get loans often have not built the financial paper trail that lenders require. That is a fixable problem.
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