BLOK 58 Bar Restaurant

03/04/2026

03/04/2026

06/02/2026

We are open.

26/10/2025

https://grist.org/international/suriname-offshore-oil-energy-transition/

a computer technician named Jerry Goercharn runs Block 58, a bar that he’s named after the offshore section where Total found oil. Goercharn opened the bar a year ago amid the first news about the Total project. He filled the walls with maps of Suriname’s offshore oil and bought a model pumpjack for the entranceway, a sign of his optimism about the future.
“It’s definitely good, though it all depends on how the government will spend it,” he told me on an afternoon before the conference.

Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism — or wishful thinking?