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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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ExxonMobil Corporation announced positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015. Commenting on the Ranger-1 discovery, Guyana Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman said that: This is a most historic discovery for Guyana. Source: ExxonMobil.

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ExxonMobil adds 2.7B barrels oil equivalent to reserves; replaces 183% of 2017 production

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Liquids represented 57% of the reserves, up from 53% in 2016. Other significant new proved reserve additions were made in Guyana, where the company funded the first phase of development last year, and in Mozambique, associated with the project funding of the Coral FLNG project in the gas-rich deepwater Area 4.

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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million new diabetes cases globally in 2016—about 14% of all new diabetes cases globally that year. million years of healthy life were lost in 2016 due to pollution-linked diabetes, representing about 14% of all years of healthy life lost due to diabetes from any cause. They also estimated that 8.2 In the US, the EPA’s PM 2.5

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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