Guyana’s Oil Future vs Trump’s Energy Shift

In just five short years, Guyana skyrocketed from economic obscurity to becoming one of the top oil-producing nations on Earth—a small South American country now pumping out over 660,000 barrels of oil per day, with projections of hitting 1 million barrels daily in 2025. This oil boom has transformed Guyana into the third-highest per capita crude oil producer globally, sparking hopes of prosperity, progress, and permanent economic uplift.

But just as the nation’s dreams begin to take flight... a storm is brewing.

Could Donald Trump's return to the White House derail Guyana's oil-powered future?

This surge in U.S. output is driving global oil prices down, slashing profits for emerging producers like Guyana and placing the country’s economic stability, GDP growth, and national development at serious risk. And with oil giants like BP ditching renewables to invest $10 billion more in fossil fuels, competition is only intensifying.

🇬🇾 Guyana now faces a crossroads:
Will it become a cautionary tale of the “resource curse,” or will it rise to the challenge—diversifying its economy, forging new alliances with Europe and CARICOM, and building a future not tied solely to oil?

So, if you care about Caribbean oil politics, global energy trends, or the impact of Trump’s presidency beyond U.S. borders, you can’t afford to miss this video.

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► 0:00 Guyana’s Oil Future vs Trump’s Energy Shift
► 0:41 Impact Of Trump's Presidency On Guyana’s Oil Future
► 1:10 A Booming Economy
► 2:09 Drill Baby Drill
► 3:46 Challenges And Risks
► 5:54 Other Opportunities And Partners

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[josephwinslow]

Guyana got plenty more than oil. We can literally feed, house and clothe ourselves. Oil and petroleum production is just a stepping stone for us to develop all of our other resources and build new industries. Oil production is giving us the money that we need to develop our country and diversify our economy.

[gerryclarke]

GUYANAS MUST BE INDEPENDENT AND GO FORWARD DONT WAIT FOR AMERICA

[guyanasun]

Guayana has high quality oil, there's always a market.

[Black_Enigma]

The biggest changes that Guyana need is a change in government badly.

[juniormcallister]

Anyone noticed at 6:49 there's a map why is it outlined and named after what the Venezuela 😮

[Dudnauth]

Corruption in high places, Guyana’s biggest curse.

[dhanrajmohan]

Public comments. Government must make ExxonMobil pay taxes, like everyone else. No loopholes. No border crossing. No elegal border crossing. No elegal mining or logging.

[derrickhaimraj]

If Guyana is the third oil producer, where is the money ?

[AICoversVerified]

Now that it has reached a GDP per capita (PPP) higher than USA, it should diversify it fast by focusing on science, technology and finance, it can bring in startups with lucrative visa from around the world

[SamuelSukhu-ti]

Guyana, must begin improving in production
Food 🥑🥝 fruit 🍑
Averyculure
Gold tourist
Become a More safe country
For everyone
Good God bless Guyana
Make More 🏠
Open More Lands for his people
Security for all.people.

[dinoncumberbatch]

The problem Guyana have with the oil money is the government people the are big problem them still alot

[romakissoon]

I hope Guyana doesn't partnership with Trump, he's going take it all in the turn around Guyana is going to be left with nothing. Please stay independent and grow the country and look after the country doing a great job, all trump wants is everything and to control everyone country, you all keep your head up and eyes open.

[GOKBLACK]

Guyana And The Caribbean, Is Correct.

[dhanrajmohan]

Public comments. Government please set laws and rules and regulations deal with pollution control and safety issues and audit. All expenses .

[dhanrajmohan]

Public comments. Government must infoce the laws against elegal border crossing. Government must stand firm and insure transparency and accountable deal with oil companies..

[ar..._]

Maybe Guyana should see this as a blessing in disguise, it is an opportunity I think for them to renegotiate what may have been a very unfair and bad deal. And looking at the world situation now maybe Guyana should diversify who they export to their countries that need the oil so maybe they should focus on those country it seems Suriname did not have one countries oil producer to do their whining Ghana should also consider this.

[atyafatima]

China has insatiable appetite for crude oil. Guyana oil can be diverted to China. It is, however, not a good idea to rely on just one market. Guyana could sell it's oil on barter system with cash strapped countries. Russia did that with India.

[tefnutmintum]

NO MORE FOSSIL ENERGY...ALTERNATIVE CLEAN ENERGY IS WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS!

[youwu]

Señor la Guayana Esequiba es Venezuela 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

[ulrichlachman]

Suriname has also a dispute with the border with Guyana

If the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro decides tomorrow to annex the Essequibo area following a military action following a referendum, the Guyanese will be faced with a taste of their own medicine. The Venezuelans have been claiming the Essequibo area for decades, because they assume that during the colonial administration of the British - in what is now called Guyana - the aforementioned area was confiscated by the German Robert Hermann Schomburgk by drawing up false maps. . Venezuela was certainly no match for the British militarily at that period, so the area was added to Guyana. It must be clear that the British also wanted a so-called foothold on the mainland of South America. On our side too, the British have done everything they can to steal territory from the other colonizers in the North Sea. The fact that part of present-day Guyana also belonged to the colony of Suriname can still be deduced from the Dutch names in certain places. But it was the same Robert Hermann Schomburgk who ascended the Corentijn and also after this journey drew up a false map for the British, in which he indicated that the Coeroeni Cutari was the upper course of the Corantijn River. He had not seen the truly much larger stream of water that we call the Upper Corantijn. Later, upon further investigation by the British Barrington Brown, the Upper Corantijn - which he called the New River - turned out to be the real upper course, creating the so-called Tigri Delta, located between Coeroeni, Cutari, Upper Corantijn and the Acarai Mountains, without there was no doubt that it should be regarded as Surinamese territory. However, the British wanted nothing to do with Barrington Brown's findings. In 1969, before our political independence, President Forbes Burnham of Guyana, which became independent in 1966, decided to occupy the Tigri Delta by means of military force. As is known, the Netherlands, which still had to defend Suriname as a part of the empire, did not intervene. Due to this annexation and the violent actions of Guyana, Suriname still has a border dispute with that country, just like Venezuela has with the Guyanese over the Essequibo area. The Guyanese government is now screaming bloody murder and is seeking support all over the world against a possible Venezuelan attack to take over the area militarily, but Suriname should absolutely not side with Guyana when it comes to the Essequibo issue. Guyana has occupied part of our territory since 1969, and does everything if the area belongs to it. We may be part of the English-speaking club CARICOM, which immediately supported Guyana, but we have been robbed by the Guyanese for more than 54 years. They have taken our territory hostage with military force and we should not accept that for a moment and certainly should not side with them when it concerns the Essequibo issue between Venezuela and the Guyanese. The fact that the Venezuelans now want to take back the area, if necessary with the use of the much stronger Venezuelan army, of course has everything to do with the large oil and natural gas reserves that have been discovered off the coast of the aforementioned area. This border dispute could have enormous consequences for security in our area, which can be described as the Guyanas. An area that runs from the Orinoco to the Oyapock. It is understandable that Venezuela may wish to use military resources. Isn't that what the Guyanese did to us in 1969, when The Hague did everything it could to get the police unit out of the Tigri area and was under former officer Lapre. The Netherlands did not want to have trouble with NATO partner Great Britain, that was clear at the time. But we now live in the 21st century and must not forget that we have a Ukraine and a Gaza, where major powers commit actions that can cause changes within geopolitics, including on our continent, when business and major financial interests come into play. This is about oil, that's what it was about in Iraq too. We can always talk about green energy and electric cars, but oil is still of great and survival importance for most economies and that is why the Venezuelan-Guyanese border conflict can still cause a lot of trouble for all of us. And especially if world powers get involved. Is oil a blessing or a curse? Unfortunately, this will also be expressed or expressed in this region.

Surinamese Newspaper / Source: De West, d.d., 19-11-2023