Aug 21, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – It is why I like these swashbucklers operating out of Spring, Texas. They know how to keep others on their toes, and to lull their partners in host counties to sleep. There was Big Chief Darren Woods during his 31st July second quarter report breaking open the champagne. He had a lot to share: four new oil discoveries in Guyana likely to “go above and beyond what we thought were opportunities.”

Bigger than the imagination. It could be Beaumont and Spindletop replicated, maybe even a touch of Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, when big game oil hunters like Mr. Darren Woods starts to talk in that effusive manner. Oh my, just when Guyana’s cost bank melted down, and cost recovery went from 75 to zero, the Exxon CEO was suddenly talking about not one spectacular oil discovery, but a total of four in the works.