Aerial view of the the Guyana Shore Base Inc, an ExxonMobil’s associate in oil discoveries, in Georgetown, Guyana on August 29, 2025. Guyana, a small country in northern South America that elects its president on September 1, boasts the world’s largest per capita oil reserves and wants to escape the “black gold curse” and develop by escaping poverty. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP) (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP via Getty Images)







