Oil, Stabroek block (Guyana)

In less than a decade, the Stabroek block has made a small country of 800,000 inhabitants one of the fastest-growing offshore oil producers in the world, entirely steered by an ExxonMobil-Hess-CNOOC consortium. The revenue comes out offshore, the decision stays in Houston, and neighbouring Venezuela claims the Essequibo region by force. A wealth shock without local industry, backed onto an armed border dispute.