{"id":1875,"date":"2026-07-18T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:20:21","slug":"suriname-chamber-of-commerce-and-industry-kkfcautiously-optimistic-about-new-oil-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/suriname-chamber-of-commerce-and-industry-kkfcautiously-optimistic-about-new-oil-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Suriname Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKF)Cautiously Optimistic About New Oil Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Jason Pinas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suriname continues to prepare for First Oil in 2028, and the private sector is not sitting on the sidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKF) favors only one path to sustainable success: thorough preparation and strategic collaboration across business sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are very aware of what lies ahead,\u201d KKF spokesman Gino Naarden says, \u201cAs an organization, we realized early on that we need to wake our people up because this is now a matter of national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, while the offshore oil discoveries might be smaller than those in neighboring Guyana and Brazil, their impact on the local economy will be game-changing. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/online.fliphtml5.com\/dwrv\/Energy-Magazine-Q2-2026\/#p=42\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/online.fliphtml5.com\/dwrv\/Energy-Magazine-Q2-2026\/#p=42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Pinas Suriname continues to prepare for First Oil in 2028, and the private sector is not sitting on the sidelines. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKF) favors only one path to sustainable success: thorough preparation and strategic collaboration across business sectors. \u201cWe are very aware of what lies ahead,\u201d KKF spokesman Gino [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-suriname-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyguyana.gy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}