Achieve first oil from the Payara development
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 27 Jan 2021
- Due
- 31 Dec 2024
- Delivered
- November 2023
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The Payara development was sanctioned in September 2020 and will utilize the Prosperity FPSO with an expected capacity of 220,000 gross bopd, with first oil targeted in 2024.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Hess Corporation achieved first oil from the Payara development in November 2023, which is within the 2024 deadline.
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A Hess Corporation 10-K filed 2025-02-27
“the third development, Payara, began producing oil in November 2023 from the Prosperity 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 +1826 days
- Scope drift -52.0%
- 3 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 27 Jan 2021
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“2024”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 26 Jan 2022
Deadline 31 Dec 2025 (“2025”) · target 250,000 gross bopd · wording expected
“Pending government approval and project sanctioning, the project is expected to have a capacity of 250,000 gross bopd with first oil anticipated in 2025.”
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Version 3 · stated 31 Jul 2024
Deadline 31 Dec 2029 (“in 2029”) · wording expected
“first oil anticipated in 2029”
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Version 4 · stated 29 Jan 2025
Deadline 31 Dec 2029 (“in 2029”) · target 120,000 gross bopd · wording expected
“Pending government and regulatory approval and project sanctioning, the development is expected to have a production capacity in the range of 120,000 to 180,000 gross bopd, with first oil anticipated in 2029.”
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 from Payara development
- 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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