| Sumario: | Possibilities Beyond Frontier Imaginaries As an emerging petrostate, Guyana has shifted from being an imagined oil frontier space to seeming to guarantee significant revenues for oil companies. In Guyana, Colonial Regimes Power the New Oil Frontier: ExxonMobil's promise of booming wealth draws on enduring colonial frontier logics. (KENNARDP / FLICKR / CC BY-NC 2.0) In 2015, ExxonMobil announced it had uncovered one of the largest reserves of oil and gas in the Western Hemisphere in the offshore Guyana-Suriname Basin, thrusting Guyana onto the map as a new petrostate. Fearing the rise of a communist state under the leadership of Marxist-leaning Cheddi Jagan and the PPP, the United States intervened in British Guiana - and as of 1966, newly independent Guyana - between 1953 and 1969.
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