 ($US) ($US)|
|2006 $6,137,946.98 $2,877,266.91 $9,015,213.892007 $8,472,141.17 $4,943,117.78 $13,415,258.952008 $12,118,034.17 $8,182,898.67 $3,077,116.00 $334,421.00 $23,712,469.842009 $10,200,744.92 $6,087,522.00 $4,118,135.57 $441,915.61 $20,848,318.102010 $21,037,494.36 $8,102,902.35 $29,140,396.71|
|Total $57,966,361.60 $30,193,707.71 $7,195,251.57 $776,336.61||$96,131,657.49|
Treaty Energy Oil In The News
A small company called Treaty Energy Oil has been doing limited oil exploration in Belize and issuing frequent, upbeat press releases. In January 2012 it issued a sensational press release stating it had stuck oil in southern Belize and discovered a new oil field containing some 6 million barrels of oil. Many radio and television stations in Belize and even media in North America carried this press release. The claim turned to be false and was refuted by both the country’s Prime Minister and the Belize Ministry of Natural Resources. Belize Government Says Treaty Energy Oil Strike Claim Is Bogus.
Updates On Oil Revenue Sharing Agreements
In a television interview on 11 June 2012 CEO in the Ministry of Petroleum Colin Young gave an update on the Maranco oil find and current oil revenue sharing structures.
R. COLIN YOUNG
“In terms of the Maranco oil find in the South Canal Bank #1 well, the company has completed its testing. Unfortunately they had some technical difficulties while doing that but they believe that what they have seen is good enough to report to the Department of Geology that they will proceed to drill an appraisal well as allowed under their production sharing agreement that allows them about 18 months to complete it and after that process they will be able to indicate whether or not the field is commercial or not. Appraisal well is where they dig a well where they initially found some oil, what they need to do now is drill another well that will allow them to collect additional information such as the amount of oil, the size of the potential field; they can dig up to three of those wells. After that process is when they will be able to ascertain as to how much oil is there and whether or not it is commercial or not. They have done the seismic testing which allows them to collect the data to indicate to them where to drill and they have dug the well and they have extracted some oil from that well but they have insufficient information at this point based on that well to decide and indicate whether the field is commercial and that is why they have to drill these additional wells to get a sense of the size of the field and the amount of oil they can potentially extract. They have 18 months because that is the amount of time they are allowed under the PSA, under their contract. Obviously, it is in the best interest of everyone, the company and the government for them to do this as quickly as possible.”
Young says that Maranco should restart drilling by next week. If the case may be that crude oil is found in commercial quantities, Young says that the agreed sharing agreement between Maranco and the Government of Belize is favorable for the country.
DR. COLIN YOUNG
“Well it goes on how smooth and whether there are any other technical issues but they have to get back to the depth that they are at now and as soon as that happens they will do another test again, what is called a production test, to see how much oil they can extract and using the data they will be able to gather how much they think is there and then how much they can extract and that is what everybody is interested to know. If it is a commercial field then what happens next is that they have to do another Environmnetal Impact Assessment prior to them actually producing the field and once they start to produce then government will start to obviously get its share.
“Maranco has a very favorable revenue terms with the government; for example, on the first five thousand barrels they extract, they will pay government 15% and they get 85%, on the other five thousand dollars, they will pay government 20% and if they were to find over thirty thousan