PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Jul.2025, Words: 347) — A delegation from Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI), led by ministers Roodal Moonilal and Ernesto Kesar, listed the twin-island country’s 92.2 MW solar utility scale project in Brechin Castle, Couva. The visit […]
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Touchstone Exploration raises $20.5mn in private placement, engages Republic Bank
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 8.May.2025) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. successfully raised ÂŁ15.375mn ($20.5mn) by way of a private placement of 75,000,000 new common shares of no par value in the company with certain institutional and other investors in the United Kingdom. Touchstone also signed a binding […]
MEEI Providing Support to TEMA Regarding Oil Spill
(MEEI, 7.Feb.2024) — Last night the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) dispatched a team of petroleum inspectors from its Petroleum Operations Management Division (POMD) to Tobago under the leadership of Marc Rudder, Chief Technical Officer at the MEEI, to assist the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) and Tobago […]
Venezuela grants Dragon gas field license
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Dec.2023) — The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) and Shell were granted a license for the exploration and exploitation of non-associated gas in the Dragon field, located in Venezuela’s Paria peninsula. The license was granted during a signing ceremony in […]
Trinidad to Restart Idled LNG Unit by Early 2027
(Reuters, 7.Jun.2023) — Trinidad and Tobago aims to restart an idled liquefied natural gas (LNG) unit by the first quarter of 2027 after agreeing to restructure the facility’s ownership and negotiate new gas supplies, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. Trinidad is Latin America’s largest LNG exporter, but its joint venture […]
Shell Trinidad and Tobago Delivers First Gas from Colibri Project
(Shell Trinidad and Tobago, 31.Mar.2022) — Shell Trinidad and Tobago (through BG International, a subsidiary of Shell plc), announces that production has started on Block 22 and NCMA-4 in the North Coast Marine Area (NCMA) in Trinidad and Tobago. The start-up of Colibri follows the amendment to the Block 6 Production Sharing Contract […]
The MEEI Executes a Heads of Agreement for Atlantic LNG Restructuring
(MEEI, 25.Jan.2022) — The Honourable Stuart R. Young, M.P., Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister announced the execution by the Government, and Atlantic LNG Shareholders, companies affiliated with BP, Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Shell) and The National Gas Company of […]
Shell: Commissioning Work for Poinsettia Begins in January
(Trinidad Guardian, 24.Dec.2021) — Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited has announced that commissioning work on the Poinsettia Platform will begin in January. In a notice published by Shell and BG International, the company announced that on or around January 6, 2022, “the Skandi Contractor vessel will be supporting subsea system […]
Trinidad PM Rowley Meets With High-Level Shell Team
(Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 4.Nov.2021) — Prime Minister Dr the Hon Keith Rowley met with Shell’s senior executives at the energy company’s office in London on Thursday 4 November 2021. Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister […]
Shell To Tap Major Gas Field Off Trinidad
(Argus, 19.Oct.2021) — Shell plans to sign a production-sharing contract (PSC) for the 2.7 Tcf Manatee offshore natural gas field in Trinidad and Tobago, a project the government hopes will overcome a chronic gas supply shortage. Manatee holds the potential to provide “the single largest new gas production in Trinidad […]
Shell Delivers First Natural Gas From Barracuda Project
(Shell, 22.Jul.2021) — Shell Trinidad and Tobago (through BG International, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc) today announces that production has started on Block 5C in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) in Trinidad and Tobago. This marks a significant milestone in the delivery of gas both domestically and […]
Lightsource bp Eyes Construction Of Project Lara
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Feb.2021) — Lightsource bp continues to advance two solar farm projects, collectively known as Project Lara, in Trinidad and Tobago and with a combined 112 MWac. The company aims to start construction of the Orange Grove Solar Project and the Brechin Castle Solar Project sometime in 2021, […]
Trinidad Inks Definitive Agreement With Shell
(Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries, 19.Aug.2019) — The Honourable Minister of Energy and Energy Industries announces the finalization of negotiations between the Government and Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited on gas related issues. In April 2018, a Team led by the Honourable Prime Minister held high-level discussions with the […]
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, demonstrating the Company’s commitment to the objectives of STOW. Also present at the signing, which took place at the Energy […]
Venezuela to Send DragĂłn Gas to Trinidad
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Venezuela will send its DragĂłn field natural gas to Trinidad for processing. That’s according to a deal signed today in Caracas between the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, reported Venezuela’s Ministry of Petroleum in a series of tweets. The countries were […]