OWTU To Buy Petrotrin Refinery
(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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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 have finally started appearing in...
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 the medical needs of Petrotrin...
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 by no means miniscule —...
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 meet its financial and other...
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 burning faster, leading to lower...
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 expcted to cease operations on...
Trinidad Government Announces New Company For Refinery Assets
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 18.Oct.2018) The government has announced a new state company, Guaracara Refining Company, into which the assets of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery will be placed. The...
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 company, Petrotrin, insisting that the...
$2.6 Billion to Close Petrotrin Refinery
[caption id="attachment_3882" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Petrotrin refinery in Trinidad. Source: Trinidad Guardian[/caption] (LoopTT, Darlisa Ghouralal, 1.Oct.2018) — Severance packages for retrenched Petrotrin workers are expected to cost the State in the region...
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 related to closure of the...
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 public with the closure of...
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 have participated in the restructuring...
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 refinery of the s tate-owned...
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 the closure would decimate south...
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 Petrotrin. The refinery, based in...
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 its oil refinery in Pointe-a-Pierre....
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 it, will close. Its transition...
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 the decision to close down...
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 the processing and export of...
Kamla Floats Guyana Help for Trinidad Refinery
(Stabroek News, 2.Sep.2018) — Trinidad Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar has raised the prospect of Guyana oil being used to rescue the beleaguered Petrotrin refinery but Prime Minister Keith Rowley...
Energy MoU Soon Between Guyana, Trinidad
(Stabroek News, Marcelle Thomas, 2.Sep.2018) — A long-delayed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Guyana and Trinidad on energy cooperation is expected to be signed in the coming weeks, according to...
Petrotrin Severance to Cost at Least $1 Bln
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 31.Aug.2018) — Severance packages for Petrotrin workers will cost upwards of $1 billion, Energy Minister Franklin Khan estimated yesterday. But compared to the Pointe-a-Pierre...
Lennox Petroleum to Take Legal Action Against OWTU
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 31.Aug.2018) — Lennox Petroleum Services Ltd has initiated legal action against members of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU), one day after they protested...
Shut-Down of Historic Petrotrin Refinery
[caption id="attachment_3451" align="alignright" width="434"] Petrotrin refinery. Source: Petrotrin[/caption] (Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 30.Aug.2018) — On the eve of the country’s 56th anniversary of Independence, the board of Petrotrin...
Petrotrin Concerned: Ramnarine and Seepersad-Bachan
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sasha Harrinanan, 29.Aug.2018) — Former energy ministers Kevin Ramnarine and Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan, both of whom served under the previous administration, are asking if Petrotrin’s board considered...
Petrotrin Financials, Details About Pointe-a-Pierre Refinery
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Aug.2018) — It’s official: Petrotrin or the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited will cease to operate its lone refinery located at Pointe-a-Pierre. What...
1,700 Petrotrin Workers to be Fired, Refinery Closed
[caption id="attachment_3389" align="alignnone" width="1700"] Petrotrin workers being addressed by OWTU president general Ancel Roget. Photo: Trevor Watson[/caption] (Trinidad Express, 28.Aug.2018) — It’s official. Petrotrin’s refinery is to close. And 2,600...
PetroTrin Refinery to Close
[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 Imports 40% of Oil from Russia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 27.Aug.2018) —Trinidad and Tobago is relying on Russia as its main source of imported crude oil. Between January and June 2018, the small twin-island country...
MEEI Updates on Status of Trinidad Energy Infrastructure
(MEEI, 24.Aug.2018) — The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) has been monitoring the impacts of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake which occurred on Tuesday 21st August, 2018 at 5:31...
Dragon Gas Deal Finalised Tomorrow
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 21.Aug.2018) – After nearly two years of negotiations between this country and Venezuela the deal that will allow TT to process gas from the...
Major Petroleum Cos. Pay T&T $114.7 Bln during 2010-2016
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Aug.2018) – Payments by major oil and gas companies to the government of the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago totaled $114.7 billion during 2010-2016....
Union, Petrotrin Deny Strike Rumours
(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...
PetroTrin Refinery Importing Shortfall
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 31.Jul.2018) – That’s according to reports in a local newspaper. “The refinery at PetroTrin has a capacity of 140,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd);...
Hold It Right There, Petrotrin!
[caption id="attachment_2712" align="alignleft" width="300"] Source: Jamaica Observer[/caption] (The Sterling Report, Yanique Leiba-Ebanks, 29.Jul.2018) – Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd (affectionately known as Petrotrin) is the state-owned oil company...
Petrotrin Board, Union Disagree to Agree
(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...
PetroTrin Achieves $85.6 Mln Profit
(Trinidad Guardian, 19.Jul.2018) – Petrotrin chairman Wilfred Espinet said cost reduction initiatives undertaken by the interim executive team installed at the energy company resulted in a second quarter profit after...
Trinidad Seeks Assistance In Leak Cleanup
(LoopTT, 9.Jul.2018) – Cleanup operations continue following a leak at the Couva Marine 2 Well. Personnel with the Energy Ministry and Petrotrin’s Incident Command team have been monitoring the leaking...
Trinidad Seeks Help As Oil Well Ruptures
(Prensa Latina, 9.Jul.2018) – A fuel leak in the Couva platform, in the Gulf of Paria, Trinidad and Tobago, continues today after four days of being initiated, before which the...
Oil Price Weighs on Barbados’ Inflation
(Trinidad Express, Aleem Khan, 4.Jul.2019) – High oil prices on their own appear to be good neither for Trinidad and Tobago nor Barbados, according to statements by an International Monetary...
National Oil Co for Guyana Would Be Disaster
(Stabroek News, 3.Jun.2018) – The creation of a National Oil Company (NOC) will be “a disaster” for this country warns former Government Advisor on Petroleum, Dr. Jan Mangal who says...
Guyana Potential Game Changer for Petrotrin
[caption id="attachment_950" align="alignnone" width="688"] Installations at Petrotrin. Source: Petrotrin[/caption] (Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 27.Jun.2018) – Guyana and its eight oil finds can be a game changer for state-owned...
TT’s Energy Landscape
(Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 10.May.2018) — Trinidad and Tobago has been involved in the petroleum sector for over 100 years and is the largest oil and natural gas...
PDVSA’s Deterioration on All Fronts
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 22.May.2017) – In recent weeks PDVSA has reported at least three accidents: Petrotrin oil spill in Sucre state and incidents at its Cardon and...
PDVSA Contingency Plan for T&T Oil Spill
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 21.May.2017) – PDVSA reiterated in a twitter post that once the authorities from Trinidad and Tobago notified the company of the Petrotrin oil spill that...
PDVSA Says Oil Spill Clean-up Advances
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.May.2017) – PDVSA announced that clean-up activities continue along the Venezuelan coast off Sucre state, related to the spill of crude oil at the Pointe-à-Pierre...
Trinidad Oil Spill Reaches Venezuelan Beaches
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.May.2017) – PDVSA has intensified contingency measures to counter the ill effects of an oil spill that occurred last week in neighboring Trinidad and Tobago....
LGO Approved for Mayaro Infill Wells in Trinidad
(LGO Energy plc, 4.Jan.2017) – LGO Energy plc provided a further update on its plans to recommence production drilling at the Goudron Field in Trinidad following its announcement of December...