I'm John Batcher quickly. Good news.

Guyana, little bitty country on the coast of South America. They are in possession of

billions and billions and billions of barrels of oil. Very good stuff. Light sweet crude, the best there is on the

planet. And now they're in the news because the big oils have discovered, oh, it matters

how much we have in reserves. It turns out green is not taking over our bottom line.

And Exxon Mobil is a clear winner, Evan. Everybody's celebrating, except for those who walked

away from the oil deposit.

Is this good for the whole of the continent, Evan?

How is this going to translate?

Because it's certainly good for the people of Guyana.

We have a couple of minutes.

Well, as you point, John, Guyana has enormous possibility.

And really, since the oil production has started coming on in 2020,

Guyana has been a remarkable state of transformation. I visited and did work there before, and it's just amazing to see how

Georgetown and the rest of the country is being transformed, the different, the shopping districts

expanding new hotels and money coming in. although Guyana has traditionally been a country

with a very weak institutionalization and the prospects that, you know, too much of that newfound

wealth could be wasted in corruption. But what I will say is despite some of the concerns over

corruption, the current government of Irfan Ali criticized before for some corruption

concerns during the last time they were in power, but has done a pretty good job, I would say,

negotiating with oil majors. But the reason that this became news also was because they just

held a big energy conference. And it's an interesting combination

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