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Oil Expansion, Deforestation Concerns

TotalEnergies has secured two Noble drilling rigs for $753 million as Suriname prepares a major offshore oil expansion, per curacaochronicle.com.

The move signals a significant boost to Suriname's oil sector, with the government planning to expand exploration efforts in the region, the outlet notes.

Suriname's government denies involvement in illegal wiretapping activities, as reported by caribbeantoday.com, amid growing concerns over surveillance practices.

Meanwhile, deforestation in Suriname continues to raise environmental alarms, wvnews.com reports, with local communities facing pressure from logging and mining industries.

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01curacaochronicle.com · 4 NovTotalEnergies Secures Two Noble Drilling Rigs for $753 Million as Suriname Prepares Major Offshore Oil Expansion 02caribbeantodaycaribbeantoday.com · 3 NovSuriname's Government Denies Involvement In Illegal Wiretapping Activities 03wvnewswvnews.com · 3 NovSuriname Deforestation 04arkansasonline.com · 1 NovWoodcarvers in Suriname face lure of gold mining, logging industries

Open data on the globe —

check it yourself
Forest lost since 2001
about 2,012 km² of tree cover lost within ~150 km
639 km² of it in 2019–2023 · worst year 2023 (208 km²)
tree cover ≥30% · estimate from map tiles
“About 2,012 square kilometres of forest around here have been cleared or burned since 2001; the worst year was 2023.”
Hansen/UMD Global Forest Change v1.11 via Global Forest Watch (CC BY 4.0) · Open the same data on globalforestwatch.org →

Why these floors —

E11 · E7 · E12 · E10

E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E11, organizations; the pressure it names: oil expansion. Its words also reach E7 ecosystems, E12 states and E10 institutions.

Here it is a dynamic between organizations, ecosystems and states: TotalEnergies and Noble drilling rigs (E11 organizations), with deforestation, logging and mining industries (E7 ecosystems), and Suriname's government and wiretapping activities (E12 states).

E0 fieldsE7 ecosystemsE14 global
E11 Organizationsmain floor

The floor of companies and infrastructure. In this briefing: TotalEnergies, Noble drilling rigs.

E7 Ecosystems

The floor of weather and living systems. In this briefing: deforestation, logging, mining industries.

E12 States

The floor of states and force. In this briefing: Suriname's government, wiretapping activities.

E10 Institutions

The floor of money and rules. In this briefing: $753 million.

Read The Arena, the E0–E14 stack →

Keep going —

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