Petrotrin Lies Will End Keith Rowley’s Reign As PM
(T&T Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 23.Jul.2019) — President General of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roget is predicting that the many lies told about the closure of Petrotrin would...
PM Keith Rowley Visits TOFCO With BPTT
(T&T Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 22.Jul.2019) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley visited the TOFCO fabrication yard in La Brea on Friday with BPTT team, led by regional president Claire Fitzpatrick,...
Trinidad Downgraded By Standards And Poor’s
(Guardian, Curtis Williams, 9.Jul.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago has suffered a downgrade in its sovereign ratings from credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s. In its update on this country, S&P...
The National Gas Company Key To Gas Value Chain
(T&T Newsday, Clint Chan Tack, 4.Jul.2019) — The National Gas Company (NGC) needs to remain a key part of this country's natural gas value chain, but it may have to...
TPHL Announces Expiration And Final Results
(TPHL, 25.Jun.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited (TPHL) today announced the expiration and final results of its previously announced offers to exchange any and all of its outstanding notes, originally...
LatAmNRG Heard On The Street: Gas Markets, Argentina Tender
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 25.Jun.2019) — Heard on the street related to the Latin America and Caribbean upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energies sectors. ARGENTINA --...
Trinidad’s Atlantic Resumes LNG Production
(Argus, 21.Jun.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago's LNG producer Atlantic resumed operations today at its four-train 14.8mn t/yr liquefaction facility after a five-day shutdown caused by a power cut. The trains...
TPHL Announces Extension Of Expiration Date
(TPHL, 20.Jun.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited (TPHL) announced that the expiration date has been extended until 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 21, 2019, unless extended or...
Trinidad Moves Past Venezuela To Tap Border Gas
(Argus, 11.Jun.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago has cleared Shell to develop the country's side of a shallow-water natural gas field that straddles the maritime border with Venezuela, prime minister Keith...
Trinidad Moves Past Venezuela To Tap Border Gas
(Argus, 11.Jun.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago has cleared Shell to develop the country's side of a shallow-water natural gas field that straddles the maritime border with Venezuela, prime minister Keith...
TPHL Bondholders Support Amended Offer
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 7.Jun.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Ltd’s (TPHL) decision to amend the terms of its exchange offer for its bonds due this year and 2022, has been...
Energy Minister Khan: No Venezuelan Crude For Trinidad
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sean Douglas, 7.Jun.2019) — The refined oil imported by Paria Fuel Trading Company for local consumption after the closure of the Petrotrin refinery does not include...
Trinidad Energy Chamber To Host Energy Efficiency And Renewables Conference
(Energy Chamber, 4.Jun.2019) — The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago is hosting its Energy Efficiency and Renewables Conference on 10-11 June 2019 at the Ballroom, Hilton Trinidad and Conference...
TPHL Announces Conditional Term Loan Commitments Of Up To $720 Million
(TPHL, 31.May.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited (TPHL) announced that in connection with its ongoing negotiations with a syndicate of financial institutions to enter into a new senior secured term...
BP Says Advancing Its Business In Trinidad And Tobago
(bptt, 31.May.2019) — BP’s Upstream chief executive Bernard Looney yesterday emphasized the company’s long-term commitment to Trinidad and Tobago during a meeting with the Honourable Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley...
Kamla Slams Trinidad Prime Minister’s 10-Day Energy Trip
(LoopTT, 27.May.2019) — Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday slammed the Prime Minister’s 10-day energy trip, accusing him of meddling in the energy affairs of Trinidad and Tobago. In a...
Trinidad And Tobago Doubles Down On Gas Production
(Oxford Business Group, 25.May.2019) — On April 19 the World Bank revised its forecast from earlier in the month, which had predicted that T&T would slip into a recession. In...
LatAmNRG Q&A With ANH Colombia: Exploratory Drilling To Start In 2H:20
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.May.2019) — As part of Energy Analytics Institute’s ongoing coverage of the Latin America and Caribbean energy sectors from conventionals, unconventionals to renewables, Colombia’s Hydrocarbons...
Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited Announces Extension Of Expiration Date
(TPHL, 24.May.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited announced the expiration date has been extended until 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 14, 2019, unless extended or earlier terminated...
Shell Trinidad And Tobago Commits To STOW Charter With The Energy Chamber
(Energy Chamber, 23.May.2019) — On Thursday 9th May, 2019, Mr. Derek Hudson, Vice President and Country Chair of Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited, signed the Safe to Work (STOW) Charter,...
Energy Chamber To Host Energy Efficiency and Renewables Tradeshow
(Energy Chamber, 21.May.2019) — Two years ago, the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago hosted its first Clean Energy Conference, an off-shoot from its Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference which...
Sell Oil, Buy Electric
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Ryan Hamilton-Davis, 16.May.2019) — The Regulated Industries Commission (RIC), the regulatory body for water, waste water and electricity, has come up with an initiative that could...
Contrasting Cases Of Energy Dependence: Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago
(NACLA, Zophia Edwards and Timothy M. Gill, 14.May.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago used to be as dependent on oil as Venezuela. So why hasn’t its economy suffered similar levels of...
Could Emerging Oil State Guyana Become The Richest Nation In The World?
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 12.May.2019) — A tiny South American country until recently known mostly as the location of one of the worst mass suicides in modern history is about to...
Lee: Dragon Gas Deal Dead
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 19.Apr.2019) — Deputy political leader of the United National Congress, Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee, has said the Dragon gas deal between TT and Venezuela...
Trinidad PM Rowley: Pray For Oil
(Trinidad and Tobago News Day, Sean Douglas, 17.Apr.2019) — The Prime Minister has publicly implored prayerful citizens to pray for new deposits of oil to be found in exploratory drilling...
BHP Encounters Hydrocarbons In Latest T&T Deepwater Well
(T&T Energy Chamber, 17.Apr.2019) — BHP has announced that it has found hydrocarbons in its latest deepwater well in Trinidad & Tobago’s deepwater block 23(a). The Bélé-1 well is the...
Shell’s STEM Path To The Future
(Trinidad and Tobago News Day, Melanie Waithe, 11.Apr.2019) — Ever took a walk on the bottom of the sea, to see how natural gas is extracted from beneath the earth’s...
BPTT’s Wendy Fae Thompson At The 3rd Biennial Oil And Gas Law Conference
(BPTT, 29.Mar.2019) — BPTT has partnered with the University of the West Indies from the inception of this conference and we are pleased to once again be a sponsor. 3rd...
TTNGL Reports TT$253 Million After Tax Profit For 2018
(TTNGL, 28.Mar.2019) — “Trinidad and Tobago NGL Limited (TTNGL) continues to provide excellent returns for its shareholders and is an excellent investment for the people of Trinidad and Tobago,” declared...
Trinidad Gov’t And BPTT Discuss Issues Relating To Galeota Based Contractors
(MEEI, 27.Mar.2019) — The Honourable Stuart Young Minister of National Security, Minister of Communications and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, and Senator the Honourable Franklin Khan, Minister...
Touchstone Announces YE:18 Operating And Financial Results
(Touchstone, 27.Mar.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. announces its financial and operating results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2018. Selected financial and operational information is outlined below...
Touchstone To Hold Live Online Investor Presentation And Q&A Session
(Touchstone, 25.Mar.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. will hold a live online investor presentation and Q&A session for investors on Wednesday 27 March 2019. The webcast will be recorded and made...
GlobalData: Trinidad’s Higher Royalties May Backfire
(Kallanish Energy, 27.Mar.2019) — The introduction of a higher royalty for asset bidders by Trinidad and Tobago may prove counterproductive long-term, Kallanish Energy learns. Analytics company GlobalData said in a...
Touchstone Announces Notification of Major Shareholder
(Touchstone, 25.Mar.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc., active in Trinidad and Tobago, announced details of a major shareholder here. ***
EOG Resources Schedules Conference Call And Webcast Of 1Q:19 Results
(EOG, 20.Mar.2019) — EOG Resources, Inc. will host a conference call and webcast to discuss first quarter 2019 results on Friday, May 3, 2019, at 9 a.m. Central time (10...
Touchstone Energy Announces Trinidad Ops Update
(Touchstone, 14.Mar.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc., with operations in Trinidad and Tobago, announces an operational update. Highlights Achieved January and February 2019 crude oil sales of 1,994 and 2,179 barrels...
OPEC Releases MOMR With Oil Data Thru February 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Mar.2019) — OPEC announced publication of its Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) as of 14 March 2019 with details on producers in Latin America and...
BHP To Drill More Wells In Trinidad After Gas Finds
(Reuters, 14.Mar.2019) — BHP Group Ltd has stepped up exploration drilling in deep water off Trinidad and Tobago hunting for gas which could supply the country’s Atlantic LNG (liquefied natural...
Rowan Companies Inks Contract With Repsol For Rowan EXL II In Guyana
(Rowan, 13.Mar.2019) — Rowan Companies plc and Repsol Exploracion Guyana, S.A. signed a contract for the EXL II, a high-specification Super 116E Jack-up rig, for work in Guyana. The contract...
Trinidad Petroleum Secures New Bank Loans As Bond Repayment Looms
(Loan Pricing Corporation, Aaron Weinman, 12.Mar.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings (TPH) is in advanced debt restructuring talks with banks and has secured new loans of up to US$1.4bn based on...
Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited Publishes Investor Presentation
(Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited, 1.Mar.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited (TPHL), successor company to Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Petrotrin), has made available an investor presentation, available online...
Repsol’s New Oil Fields To Outweigh Venezuela, Libya Declines To 2020: CEO
(S&P Global Platts, 28.Feb.2019) — Repsol expects output from around 10 of its new international plays to outweigh any possible declines from Libya and Venezuela and drive it towards its...
BP Starts Gas Production From T&T’s Angelin Project
(BPTT, 26.Feb.2019) — BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) announced first gas production from its Angelin development. The project was delivered on time and under budget. The Angelin development, originally discovered...
Lure Of Guyana’s Energy Rents
(The Daily Express, Mary King, 26.Feb.2019) — Sometime ago I wrote about the petroleum find in Guyana and given the state of our planet, climate change, global warming, sea level...
Trinidad And Guyana– Same Curse
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Letter to Editor, Arthur Dash, 25.Feb.2019) — Having recently returned from Guyana, I could not help but think of Trinidad the entire trip. Both countries are...
Energy Chamber Of Trinidad And Tobago Hosts 1st Downstream Forum
(Energy Chamber, 26.Feb.2019) — On February 21st, 2019, the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago hosted the first Downstream Forum which was open to its membership only. The main intent...
Trinidad Fishermen Protest: No Gas, No Vote
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 20.Feb.2019) — A group of fishermen protested with placards outside Parliament in Port of Spain yesterday over the rise in the price of diesel...
Touchstone Exploration Intends £3.8m UK Private Placement
(Touchstone, 19.Feb.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. intends to complete a private placement directed towards United Kingdom institutional investors. The company expects to raise gross proceeds of £3.8 million (approximately C$6.5...
Trinidad: Union Confident Of Acquiring Assets Of Oil Refinery
(CMC, 16.Feb.2019) — The Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) says it remains “confident” that it would soon acquire the assets of the former state-owned oil refinery, PETROTRIN, whose operations were...
Gopee-Scoon: Trinidad Getting Better Fuel From Paria
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 15.Feb.2019) — Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon says the country is getting higher quality fuel from Paria Fuel Trading Co Ltd (Paria Fuel) than it...
De Novo Sparks Hope For Proman In TT
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 14.Feb.2019) — The Proman Group has had an indelible mark on the petrochemicals industry in TT. The Swiss-based conglomerate might not be a household name, but...
Methanol, Good Mix For Fuel
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 14.Feb.2019) — As of November 30, 2018, Trinidad and Tobago ceased being a producer of fuel. Now the country will have to import fuel...
AG Faris Al-Rawi Sets Fire Under Execs
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Ryan Hamilton-Davis, 14.Feb.2019) — A group of firemen at a firemen’s conference who don’t want to talk about water. That’s how Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi summed...
Esso Invites TT Firms To Sign Up
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 7.Feb.2019) — TT energy companies are being encouraged to sign up for a chance to be a part of Guyana’s oil and gas exploration...
Energy Efficiency Declaration From The Energy Chamber
(Energy Chamber, 5.Feb.2019) — Recognizing the role of energy efficiency in simultaneously developing the economy and reducing Trinidad and Tobago’s greenhouse gas emissions, the Energy Chamber has developed an Energy...
BPTT Regional President Claire Fitzpatrick Comments At TTEC2019
(BPTT, Claire Fitzpatrick, 4.Feb.2019) — Sponsor’s remarks from BPTT’s Regional President Claire Fitzpatrick during the Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference held in Port of Spain, Trinidad. SALUTATIONS -- Dr. The...
Venezuela’s Crisis: This Is Not About Politics Or Oil – This Is About People
(Marla Dukharan, 4.Feb.2019) — The worst humanitarian crisis in Latin American history has for years been festering in our backyard, with spillovers both good and (mostly) bad for the Caribbean....
Technology: Transforming The Industry. The Trinidad And Tobago Experience
(Trinidad PM Keith Rowley, 4.Feb.2019) — Once again, it is my distinct honour and pleasure to deliver the feature address at this the opening of 2019 Energy Conference and Trade...
EOG Resources Sets Date For 4Q:18 And YE:18 Conference Call
(EOG, 15.Jan.2019) — EOG Resources, Inc. will host a conference call and webcast to discuss fourth quarter and full year 2018 results on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, at 9 a.m....
Trinity Exploration & Production Provides 4Q:18 Ops Update
(Trinity, 15.Jan.2019) — Trinity Exploration & Production plc provided a 4Q:18 operational update related to its activities in Trinidad and Tobago. During the period, Trinity continued to build on the...
MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Lists Tomorrow
(Jamaica Observer, 13.Jan.2019) — The listing of MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Limited on the Jamaica Stock Exchange will take place on Monday, January 14, at 9:00 am. The company will...
Trinidad Energy Sector Outlook 2019
(T&T Energy Chamber CEO Thackwray ‘Dax’ Driver, 6.Jan.2019) — Trinidad & Tobago’s energy sector is predicted to make a modest recovery in 2019, on the back of increased natural gas...
Rowan Reports Contract Extension With Shell For Gorilla VI In Trinidad
(Rowan, 2.Jan.2019) — Rowan Companies plc said the Rowan Gorilla VI (a Super Gorilla class jack-up) has been extended by Shell in Trinidad. The rig will continue its current drilling...
Course For Officials From Suriname, Trinidad, Mexico And Cuba
(ARPEL, 27.Dec.2018) — During October and November, various training courses on ARPEL Oil Spill Response Planning and Readiness Assessment Manual and the tool RETOS® (Readiness Evaluation/Excel Tool for Oil Spills)...
MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Raises $11 Million From IPO
(MPC, 25.Dec.2018) — MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Ltd has raised US$11 million from its initial public offering (IPO) on the Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago stock exchanges. The offering opened...
Rowan Announces Trinidad And Guyana Contract For Ralph Coffman
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc, a global provider of contract drilling services with a fleet of 25 mobile offshore drilling units, composed of 21 self-elevating...
Rowan Announces Trinidad Contract For Joe Douglas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc, with a fleet that operates worldwide, including the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North...
LatAmNRG Briefs: BPTT, President Energy, Sempra Energy
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 18.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from BPTT and its sanction for two new gas developments in Trinidad, President Energy’s success...
BPTT Reports Sanction Of Cassia Compression And Matapal Gas Projects
(BPTT, 17.Dec.2018) — BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) announced the sanction for two new gas developments offshore Trinidad, Cassia Compression and Matapal. The Cassia Compression project will enable BPTT to...
BP Gives Go-ahead For Pair Of Trinidad Projects
(Energy Voice, Mark Lammey, 17.Dec.2018) — The first project will help BP produce low pressure gas reserves from existing fields in the Greater Cassia Area. The project will involve the...
LatAmNRG Briefs: Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 13.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from South America’s Guyana, which expects first oil to start flowing in...
Petrotrin Consultants Paid Over $11 Million
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 12.Dec.2018) — More than US$11 million (or over TT$74 million) has been paid to two global consultancy companies for work done on behalf of...
Trinidad’s MEEI Announces Cessation Of RON 83 Supply
(MEEI, 17.Dec.2018) — Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries wishes to announce the cessation of the supply of regular gasoline (RON 83) on the local market The Ministry of Energy...
LatAmNRG Briefs: Argentina, Chile, Trinidad, Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Aaron Simonsky, 3.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from OPEC’s Venezuela and Southern Cone shale gas producer Argentina. Argentina Authorizes...