Investment fully recovered – where’s the govt.

The US$55B that ExxonMobil invested in Guyana’s offshore Stabroek Block is now fully recovered. That long-awaited piece of good news came from two of the company’s highest-level executives. In the strange world of Guyana and its oil, there is a curious state of affairs, only the newest one, in an environment that is rich with oil. Those who own the oil should be ahead of everyone in delighting to this announcement however they are silent to the point of sadness. Where else in the world but Guyana could there be the reactions that should have come before the company and did not? Why not some existence of a pulse felt in Guyana’s oil after Exx…