Category: Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago energy
Petrotrin Settles Debts, Fights Sabotage
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 1.Dec.2018) — Termination and other exit payments owed to Petrotrin’s workers as part of a $2.7 billion compensation settlement […]
Chet Morrison Completes EPCIC Project Offshore Trinidad And Tobago
(Chet Morrison and DeNovo, 27.Nov.2018) — Chet Morrison Contractors LLC has successfully completed the fabrication, installation and mechanical completion of: — A Conductor Supported Platform […]
LatAmNRG Chart Analysis: Venezuela’s R/P Rises As Oil Output Plunges
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 24.Nov. 2018) — Venezuela is suffering a complete meltdown across all sectors. The Venezuelan oil sector, which generates upwards […]
Petrotrin Hospital To Be Leased Or Sold
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 24.Nov.2018) — Energy Minister Franklin Khan has announced operations at the Augustus Long Hospital in Pointe-a-Pierre, which has serviced […]
Demolished Homes Too Close To Oil Wells In Trinidad
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 24.Nov.2018) — Energy Minister Franklin Khan says homes demolished in the Santa Flora area this week were located too […]
TT Budget On Oil Price Swing
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 22.Nov.2018) — Crude oil’s importance to the TT economy is now second to natural gas, but its contribution is […]
DeNovo Delivers Initial Gas From Iguana Field Offshore Trinidad
(DeNovo Energy, 21.Nov.2018) — DeNovo Energy Limited, a subsidiary of the Proman Group, announced the first commercial supply of gas from the Iguana Field in […]
Ensign Moves Up Trinidad Bid Deadline
(Financial Post, 19.Nov.2018) — Ensign’s date change makes it more likely that it will emerge as the successful bidder for Trinidad, CIBC analyst says. Rising […]
Trinidad Government Defends Guarantee To Petrotrin
(CMC, 16.Nov.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday said it provided guarantees of more than US$400 million to the cash-strapped oil company, Petrotrin, to […]
Venezuela Pushing For Dragon Gas In 18 Months
(Trinidad Express, 15.Nov.2018) — Venezuela’s minister of energy, Manuel Quevedo, said yesterday that his country’s state-owned oil giant PDVSA expects to start sending natural gas […]
T&T Energy Minister: Positive Growth Forecast For NatGas Markets
(Loop News, 14.Nov.2018) — Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and President of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, Franklin Khan, said the natural gas industry […]
Producer Trinidad Calls For Global Gas Pricing Index
(Reuters, 13.Nov.2018) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley on Tuesday called on the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) to develop and implement a […]
Is Your Gasoline Burning Out Faster?
(Trinidad Express, Sandhya Santoo, 7.Nov.2018) — Is super gasoline burning faster? This is the claim by some motorists who are insisting that the fuel is […]
EOG Resources Reports 20% Collapse In Trinidad Gas Production
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Nov.2018) — EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG) reported a 20% collapse in natural gas production in Trinidad in the third quarter […]
BP Extends Contract With Joe Douglas In Trinidad By One Well
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Nov.2018) — BP has extended its contract with the Joe Douglas in Trinidad by one well with an expected duration […]
Natgasoline Places Around $900 Million Of New Debt
(Proman and CEL, 2.Nov.2018) — Consolidated Energy Limited (CEL) and OCI N.V. announced that their subsidiary Natgasoline LLC, the largest methanol production facility in the […]
Petrotrin Moves Against Land Grabbers
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Azard Ali, 29.Oct.2018) — Starting today, Petrotrin will employ measures to stop people from grabbing its lands. The state-owned refinery is […]
BP: Angelin Reaches Milestone
(BP, 12.Oct.2018) — The Angelin facility marked a major milestone on October 12, 2018 with the completion of the McDermott EPCIC scope called the Total […]
Trinidad Government Defends Decision To Close Petrotrin
(CMC, 3.Oct.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday reiterated its position that it was necessary to close down the refinery of the state-owned oil […]
Trinidad to Raise Gasoline Price, Use $65/bbl Oil in 2019 Budget
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Oct.2018) — Trinidad and Tobago will use a $65 per barrel oil price to calculate its 2019 budget. Other key […]
$2.6 Billion to Close Petrotrin Refinery
(LoopTT, Darlisa Ghouralal, 1.Oct.2018) — Severance packages for retrenched Petrotrin workers are expected to cost the State in the region of $2.6 billion. Finance Minister Colm […]
Trinidad Energy Chamber, Petrotrin Officials Discuss Refinery Closure
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 30.Sep.2018) — Members of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago and a Petrotrin transition team meet to discuss issues […]
Khan: No Fuel Supply Disruption
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 26.Sep.2018) — Energy Minister Franklin Khan has assured there would be no disruption in fuel supply to the travelling […]
Petrotrin Loses Board Member
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 20.Sep.2018) — Days before Petrotrin’s refining operation ceases and workers are retrenched, a member of the board who would […]
Energy Chamber Gives Thumbs Up to MOU Between Guyana, Trinidad
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 20.Sep.2018) — The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago announced its agreement with an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between […]
Prime Minister Rowley And President Granger Sign Energy MOU
(Office of the T&T Prime Minister, 19.Sep.2018) — Prime Minister Dr the Honourable Keith Rowley and President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana His Excellency […]
More Than TT$1 Billion in Compensation for Petrotrin Workers
(CMC, 19.Sep.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago g overnment Monday said the compensation package for workers being laid off by the closure of the oil […]
Expert Says Closure of Petrotrin Refinery Will Decimate Trinidad
(Trinidad Express, 17.Sep.2018) — Former Director of Energy Industries at Industrial, Jim Catterson, says closure of the Petrotrin refinery makes no economic sense. He said […]
Barbados Hunting New Suppliers Following Closure of Petrotrin Refinery
(Jamaica Gleaner, 14.Sep.2018) — Barbados says it is holding discussions with a number of suppliers to replace the energy arrangements it had with oil refinery […]
NP CEO Says No Fallout On Refinery Closure
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sasha Harrinanan, 12.Sep.2018) — Most everyone knows about the 1,700 workers who will be out of a job once Petrotrin closes […]
Venezuela Oil Production Continues to Collapse
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Sep.2018) — The decline is consistent and constant as well as consistently and constantly bad, writes Caracas Capital Market in […]
Guyana Gov’t to Proceed with Energy MoU
(Stabroek News, 6.Sep.2018) — The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Energy Sector Cooperation between the governments of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, […]
An Iconic Legacy Petrotrin – Not Too Big To Fail
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Melanie Waithe, 5.Sep.2018) — Petrotrin has been in operation for over 97 years, and now our legacy refinery as we know […]
Bail out Petrotrin
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Vashtee Achibar, 5.Sep.2018) — Industrial relations consultant Gerard Pinard wants to know whether Government considered every available option before it took […]
T&T Prime Minister’s Office: Reinventing Petrotrin
(Office of the T&T Prime Minister, 3.Sep.2018) — Trinidad and Tobago is heavily dependent on our involvement in the natural gas industry by way of […]