(Argus, 9.Oct.2019) — A new start-up company will acquire Trinidad and Tobago's 160,000 b/d refinery for $700mn and resume operations by third quarter 2020, the energy ministry tells Argus. Patriotic...
(Argus, 23.Sep.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago's government agreed to sell its mothballed 160,000 b/d Pointe-a-Pierre refinery to a company partly owned by the oil workers' union. Finance minister Colm Imbert...
(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 public with the closure of...
(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 have participated in the restructuring...
(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 refinery of the s tate-owned...
(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 the closure would decimate south...
(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 its oil refinery in Pointe-a-Pierre....
(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 it, will close. Its transition...
(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 the decision to close down...
[caption id="attachment_3385" align="alignright" width="732"] Petrotrin’s Pointe-a-Pierre refinery operations. Photo: Richard Charan[/caption] (Trinidad Express, Ria Taitt, 28.Aug.2018) — The Government has decided to shut down the refinery of State oil company...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 10.Aug.2018) – State-owned oil company Petrotrin said a message circulating on social media that the company is on strike is not true. The message...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 26.Jul.2018) – The board of Petrotrin has outlined a plan to reorganise and restructure the state oil company in a bid to make it...