A recent spat about flaring aboard the Liza Destiny floating production, storage and offloading unit served as a reminder that Guyana's regulatory framework is still a work in progress.Former president David Granger worked with international agencies to plan a system built on principles of transparency and sus-tainability, and might have got further along this path had his government not lost a no-confidence vote in December 2018, plunging the country into a period of political instability.A Department of Energy (DoE) that reports to the Ministry of Natural Resources was created under the previous administration, but the promised hydrocarbons regulator, the Petroleum Commission, is not yet in place.When President Irfaan Ali took office in August 2020, there was some uncertainty about how many of Granger's proposals would be allowed to proceed without major review.
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