ExxonMobil may be busy making hit after hit on its prolific Stabroek block off Guyana, but the US supermajor has also provided support for a pioneering bio-energy project at one of the country’s educational institutions.

The Texas-based giant, which this week unearthed its fourteenth discovery on its operated block, has provided a portion of funding for a new bio-energy gasifier that has been tested at the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Agriculture & Forestry.