Guyana's Wales Gas-to-Energy project is taking shape and is expected to serve as the country's industrial development blueprint — a model that could guide a similar, possibly larger, development in Berbice.
"Wales is going to set out a whole industrial development blueprint for Guyana that we can use in other parts of the country," Bobby Gossai Jr., Senior Petroleum Coordinator at Guyana's Ministry of Natural Resources, said on a recent episode of the Energy Perspective Podcast.
About 50 million cubic feet per day (mcf/d) of gas will be supplied to the Wales Gas-to-Energy project to fire a 300-megawatt power plant that will provide energy to the national grid and power new industrial developments. By the end of 2026, an initial 57 megawatts of power should be available from the project.
A second power plant is being seriously considered at Wales to meet growing power demand — expected from housing expansion alongside new industrial projects like manufacturing plants and a data centre.
However, a second Gas-to-Energy project altogether is planned for the ancient county of Berbice. And Gossai Jr. hinted that this development may be larger than the forthcoming Wales project.
"With a second pipeline coming to Berbice that will probably be double of what we have here in Wales now, it could give us a lot of resources that can take us to heights of new development beyond what I may want to say now," he said on the podcast.
Government officials and ExxonMobil representatives have spoken about the expected Berbice development.
In March 2026, at a press conference in Georgetown, President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge, said the Haimara development could be the anchor for the Berbice gas project. To bring that gas onshore, a pipeline worth about US$2 billion may be needed, and the company wants concrete projects that will utilise the gas. Data centres, power generation facilities, and bauxite-to-alumina plants are among the projects that international investors have proposed to both the Government of Guyana and ExxonMobil.
More recently, Routledge told a Region Three stakeholder forum that the company believes the success in Wales could inform what takes shape in Berbice.
Gossai Jr. believes that the smart utilisation of Guyana's natural gas resources is what will majorly fuel the country's long-term development. In the months ahead, he highlighted, the government will continue refining its plan for the use of this resource even as Guyana's oil production expands.
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