(Kaieteur News) – ExxonMobil has remained silent for more than a week as questions mount over an “anomaly” in Guyana’s multi-billion-dollar gas-to-shore pipeline, even as the government has offered conflicting accounts, the opposition has pressed for answers, and engineering experts have raised concerns about the project’s integrity.

The issue became public after Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed posted video and photographic evidence to Facebook showing water bubbling to the ocean surface directly above the pipeline’s path, filmed just feet from marking buoys.

“Imagine you have the evidence where the pipeline is ruptured, you can see the water is bubbling up… and yet, they will come out and lie to the country,” Mohamed said, alleging the pipeline sits less than 10 feet deep at low tide — within a major shipping channel — without proper feasibility studies. “This is something that will continue to happen over and over,” he warned.