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Who is the US$7B+ man?


The Stabroek Block is a done deal. The country has either been outfoxed by the foreign investors or it has been sold-out by our leaders, or both. Foreigners have said that Guyana left US$55B on the negotiation table in Texas.
But while we know what has happened in the Stabroek Block, the nation is still awaiting answers about other oil blocks, notably the lucrative Canje and Kaieteur Blocks. These two blocks are believed to collectively contain 7.2 billion barrels of oil, making them just as equivalent in reserves as the Stabroek Block.
Secrecy, however, surrounds the identities of the principals who were handed the lucrative oil blocks Canje and Kaieteur. The public has not been provided with the identity of the persons behind these deals.
Oil companies, including ExxonMobil, have begun to buy-in to these blocks. The person who controls the blocks, therefore is already making big bucks without investing a cent in oil exploration or production.
Just US$1 per barrel would yield US$7.2 billion to the unknown owner of these blocks.
…Not US$2
…Not US$3
…Not US$4
Just US$1 per barrel would make the owner of those blocks one of the richest men in the western hemisphere. That person would be richer than Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of former President of Angola who is believed to be the richest woman in Africa. If the owner of the blocks obtained US$5 per barrel, it would make him one of the richest persons in the world within five years. The billion-dollar question therefore is who is the invisible man behind the Canje and Kaieteur Blocks? Will the US$7B+ man, please stand up!

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Kaieteur and Canje block owners set the stage for secrecy before selling majority shares to Exxon

Transparency is important to Guyana, but the companies that sold the Kaieteur and Canje blocks to ExxonMobil made sure to hamper full disclosure of information before they conducted those transactions.
They decided to register their businesses in countries notorious for being secretive tax havens, requiring no disclosure of vital financial information.
The Kaieteur block was split 50/50 by Ratio Energy and Ratio Guyana (owned by the Israeli company, Ratio Petroleum) on April 28th, 2015, when it was awarded by the Donald Ramotar administration. The ownership remained that way until stakes were sold to ExxonMobil in March, 2017.
Global Witness said that Exxon bought 50 percent of the block from the Ratio group. Because Ratio Energy was sold a month earlier to a company named Cataleya, GW believes the money went to Cataleya, a company run by two miners, Canadian Mike Cawood and the Guyanese, Ryan Pereira.
Some countries, like the United Kingdom, require financial disclosures. So if a company is registered there, it will be required to report the financial details if it makes a purchase.
Both Ratio Energy and Ratio Guyana were registered in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory known as a tax haven, at the time of the sale to ExxonMobil. So they were not required to make disclosures which would tell Guyana, among other things, how much money passed hands in the transaction, and who benefitted. The only information publicly available is that which Ratio Petroleum chose to make public.
It was later announced in April 2018 that Hess acquired a 15 percent stake in the Kaieteur block from ExxonMobil.
As of today, the Kaieteur block is split between four companies: ExxonMobil (35 percent), Ratio Guyana (25 percent), Cataleya (25 percent) and Hess (15 percent).
The Canje Block was awarded to Mid Atlantic on March 4th, 2015. The application for the block was made in March 2013. The company was incorporated in Guyana in April of 2013, which means Mid Atlantic made an application for a block when it was not even formed.
JHI Associates registered in Guyana on May 4, 2015 and farmed into the block just over a week later, on May 15.
JHI’s website was created after it bought into the block, on June 10, 2015 and bears limited information on the company and its purported employees. JHI’s website says it is run by the Canadian, John Cullen. Public documents, however, do not list the company’s shareholders.
According to documents held by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Secretariat, JHI was only incorporated on June 17, 2015, in the British Virgin Islands. BVI is a tax haven, like Gibraltar.
The Canje block is the only asset owned by these two companies.
Additionally, JHI and Mid-Atlantic, which participated in Guyana’s EITI reporting process, failed to submit their audited financial statements for review.
JHI also failed to submit information on its beneficial owners. An EITI report lists Dookie as the beneficial owner of Mid-Atlantic.
Less than a year after the Canje award in 2015, a 35 percent stake was sold to ExxonMobil. There is no public information about how much was paid. Total announced it farmed into 35 percent of the block in February, 2018.
Currently, four companies have stakes in the Canje block: ExxonMobil (35 percent), Total (35 percent), JHI Associates (17.5 percent) and Mid Atlantic (12.5 percent).

When it comes to secrecy, one should look no further than the company to which stakes in both these blocks were sold to.
ExxonMobil has had its own involvement in controversial secrecy in Guyana.
Apart from the suspicious awards of the Canje and Kaieteur blocks, the oil company’s kinship with secrecy had placed Guyana in a scandal over the US$18M signing bonus it gave to the Guyana government for the Stabroek block deal.
The government had hid the bonus from the Guyanese public for more than a year after it was awarded. . This could have been avoided if ExxonMobil was required in the US, at the time, to make timely disclosures of payments to governments.
A section of the US Dodd Frank Act had required companies to declare their payments to governments, but oil companies like ExxonMobil fiercely advocated against the implementation of the provision.
ExxonMobil, however, made the disclosure in Europe through its Luxembourg subsidiary, where it is required by an EU directive. But, Global Witness said that the payment was published in Luxembourg 18 months after the Stabroek block agreement was signed.

Django
@Mitwah posted:

See how Rama avoiding this thread?

My investigations are leading to the fact that Guyana has no money to extract oil and gas from the ground. They may not have a choice than to accept the offer on the table. The PPP was prepared and made the right choice. They will have all the money they need to fulfill the 2020 Election promises as stated in the Manifesto. The bottom line is that Guyana will be the richest country in the Caribbean.

R
@Ramakant-P posted:

My investigations are leading to the fact that Guyana has no money to extract oil and gas from the ground. They may not have a choice than to accept the offer on the table. The PPP was prepared and made the right choice. They will have all the money they need to fulfill the 2020 Election promises as stated in the Manifesto. The bottom line is that Guyana will be the richest country in the Caribbean.

The country has either been outfoxed by the foreign investors or it has been sold-out by our leaders, or both. Foreigners have said that Guyana left US$55B on the negotiation table in Texas.

Mitwah
@Django posted:

No one getting jailed for the give away ,once it's in house it's all good.

You call them out Bhai Django. You are doing a good job. I wish you had the same spirit when PNC was raping Guyana and left the treasury empty. I am hoping the $18 mil is still there and Harmon will release the $5 mil from his goady.

FM
@Former Member posted:

You call them out Bhai Django. You are doing a good job. I wish you had the same spirit when PNC was raping Guyana and left the treasury empty. I am hoping the $18 mil is still there and Harmon will release the $5 mil from his goady.

That the treasury was empty is a lie propagated by the PPP.  Why is the PPP not going after Harmon for the $5mil?

Mitwah
@Mitwah posted:

LOL! His current worth is about $24 Million USD.

If not Darren, then it's the Mercury man who BJ made the Devil's Deal with. BJ told him give me Guyana and I'll pay you with Oil Money.

FM
@Former Member posted:

You call them out Bhai Django. You are doing a good job.

I wish you had the same spirit when PNC was raping Guyana and left the treasury empty. I am hoping the $18 mil is still there and Harmon will release the $5 mil from his goady.

Not well informed ,probably the propaganda listening to confuses the mind. There are  annual Auditor General and periodical Bank of Guyana reports available to the public , grab a copy spend some time reading them instead of repeating the mantra from the propagandist.

Django
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@Django posted:

Not well informed ,probably the propaganda listening to confuses the mind. There are yearly Auditor General and periodical Bank of Guyana reports available to the public , grab a copy spend some time reading them instead of repeating the mantra from the propagandist.

looks like only PNC members get to see the AG's report.

FM
@Mitwah posted:

The country has either been outfoxed by the foreign investors or it has been sold-out by our leaders, or both. Foreigners have said that Guyana left US$55B on the negotiation table in Texas.

The PPP does not take bribes. US$55B was mentioned after they walked away. They would have never walked away from that amount and turned around and signed for less.

R

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