With oil reserves estimated at 450 million barrels and gas reserves at 10 trillion cubic feet, Trinidad’s per capita income is about US$18,500, among the highest in the Americas. If Guyana’s production is in the vicinity of 500,000 barrels a day, as it should be, at a value of about US$80 per barrel, to which the price should eventually rise in five years, this will bring in US14.6 billion of which Guyana’s take at the usual 40 percent will be US$5.5 billion a year. Guyana’s per capita will move to about US$14,000 in the early 2020s. The Guyanese people are blissfully unaware of this potential income and what it would mean. The Government has given no indication.
[url=http://conversationtree.gy/guyanas-future-as-an-oil-producer/#more-1379]RALPH RAMKARRAN
[url=http://conversationtree.gy/guyanas-future-as-an-oil-producer/#more-1379]RALPH RAMKARRAN