08/05/2026
So — I wrote a book.
It's called Breaking Into Guyana's Oil Boom, and it's pretty much what the title says: a plain-language look at what the oil discovery actually means for ordinary people who want a piece of it. The jobs, the small-business openings, the local-content rules, and the parts nobody sits you down and explains.
It's built on public filings and government and industry documents, the local reporting, and honestly a lot of just being there — I'm in Guyana more than half the year, and some of the most useful things in the book came out of conversations you can't have from a desk in New York.
I didn't write it to hype anything. There's plenty of that going around. I wrote the book I wish somebody had handed me — realistic about the barriers, specific about the openings.
If that sounds useful to you, or to somebody you know who's been asking questions about Guyana lately, it's here:
https://www.amazon.com/ESSEQUIBO-Guyana-Venezuela-Dispute-Reached-ebook/dp/B0H8KVSBPS/ref=sr_1_22?crid=3CVF7VMJ5KO0A&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.N912T_UyY2wLHhX4pfsym7xF5DwEkJ7f7KlbqZIi2Pv2EnFoydyc6ZjDu9ye9JBj_koXJ99aJbP5ToOtaf9YU65ZHGXZDAc4Xr6LY7yMZGFUxz-l1vfqNNiUhQHO-eNeXAvBO9BvtZRqWIsa3f_64oCUSHStBXRwnUTm0vyLjAws6OjyaSWZunjj9-w67OOtZHYxaIkDKFQsp2oskAHA_KVHTLOgEWjCECBhyZpI6CA83bkFcBLxpwsTd9l5hlOnD7ozJXeVoyIavfWZ6SSbzWJyW7AOrY_pkSsbFJZXAS4.CsqImFNM9eEfXf_lFsYPX_5iRlMemcJTJPuBX6ZdLjo&dib_tag=se&keywords=essequibo&qid=1785954205&sprefix=essequibo%2Caps%2C291&sr=8-22
If you read it, tell me what I got wrong, if anything. :)
Two-thirds of a country. One line drawn in Paris in 1899. What this book covers An honest book about an unfinished story Includes
