Suriname has the potential to become an oil production hot spot in the near to mid-term, according to GlobalData. : That’s according to GlobalData, which highlighted that four discoveries were made in the country’s Block 28 last year. “Results from the four discovery wells drilled in Suriname so far have showed excellent oil properties, with API ranging from 27° to 37°,” Svetlana Doh, an upstream oil and gas analyst at GlobalData, said in a company statement.