Begin production at the Liza phase one project
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 25 Oct 2017
- Due
- 31 Dec 2020
- Delivered
- December 2019
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Development activities associated with the Liza phase one project are on schedule and first production is expected by 2020.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Hess Corporation achieved first production at the Liza Phase 1 development in December 2019, which is before the 2020 deadline.
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A Hess Corporation 10-K filed 2022-03-01
“net production from the Liza Phase 1 development averaged 30,000 bopd in 2021 (2020: 20,000 bopd) following first production in December 2019 from the Liza Destiny FPSO.” ✓ 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 -275 days
- 4 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 25 Oct 2017
Deadline 31 Dec 2020 (“by 2020”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 31 Oct 2018
Deadline 31 Mar 2020 (“by early 2020”) · wording expected
“The Liza Phase 1 development, which is expected to begin producing oil by early 2020”
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Version 3 · stated 31 Oct 2018
Deadline 30 Jun 2022 (“by mid-2022”) · target 220,000 bopd · wording expected
“Phase 2 of the Liza development, which will use a second FPSO designed to produce up to 220,000 gross bopd, is expected to be producing by mid-2022.”
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Version 4 · stated 25 Apr 2019
Deadline 31 Mar 2020 (“by the first quarter of 2020”) · target 120,000 gross bopd · wording expected
“Liza Phase 1: Development is on schedule and is expected to begin producing up to 120,000 gross bopd by the first quarter of 2020.”
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Version 5 · stated 25 Apr 2019
Deadline 30 Jun 2022 (“by mid-2022”) · wording expected
“Liza Phase 2... is expected to begin producing by mid-2022.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Production start
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Begin
- Deliverable
- Liza phase one project
- Where
- Guyana
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
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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