Achieve first oil production at the Liza Field

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 26 Jul 2017
Due: 31 Dec 2020
Delivered: by 1 Dec 2019

Deadline
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Today

What the company said

“first oil expected by 2020”

SourceHess Corporation Form 8-K press release, 2017-07-26
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedby 2020
Deadline used31 Dec 2020, the last day of the stated period
TypeProject
Permanent referenceKI-C-2017-C004447-017514
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2017-C004447-017514/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Hess Corporation achieved first oil production at the Liza Field in 2019, which is within the 2020 deadline.

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Hess Corporation 10-K filed 2021-03-01 Regulatory filing · published 1 Mar 2021 · retrieved 20 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint e6c01dcf786e
“2019: Transfers from proved undeveloped reserves included 100 million boe in the Bakken associated with drilling activity, 29 million boe at the Stabroek Block in Guyana where first production was achieved in 2019” ✓ confirmed on the page

Checked 20 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

Deadline drift +455 days
Language weakened: expected → aspirational
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 26 Jul 2017

Deadline 31 Dec 2020 (“by 2020”) · wording expected
Version 2 · stated 29 Jul 2020

Deadline 31 Mar 2022 (“in early 2022”) · wording aspirational

“Phase two of the Liza Field development... remains on target to achieve first oil in early 2022.”
Source for this version
Version 3 · stated 28 Oct 2020

Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“in 2024”) · wording expected

“first oil is expected in 2024”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Project other
Indicative materiality: Low rules
Action: Achieve
Deliverable: first oil at Liza Field
Where: Guyana
Language: Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control: Medium
Specificity: High
Depends on: Partner

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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