TRINIDAD & TOBAGO AT 60
EVENTS
5000 BC. 1969 The oldest archaeological site with human artifcats in the West Indies was found at San Francique
1479-1516 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella united Spain in 1492, and funded the first transatlantic voyage of Italian Admiral Christopher Columbus. Believing he had reached India, Columbus called the natives indios (Spanish for ‘Indians’ ). The archipelago was thus named the West Indies.
1498 Commanding a fleet of 3 ships, Santa Maria de Guia, Vaquenos and Correo, Columbus sighted Guayaguayare on 31 July and renamed the unique Arawak island of Kairi “La Isla de la Trinidad” (“The Island of the Holy Trinity”). Anchored by Soldado Rock they landed at Icacos on 2 August .
The first Europeans to see the coast of South America explored the grandest natural harbour in the Western Hemisphere on August 4th – 12th. Sailing north on the 13th, Columbus named the Dragon’s Mouith, treacherous straits where strong swirling currents of the channel and four rocky islets. pose dangers to navigation.
1513- 1516 Spanish monks, Francisco Cordova and Juan Garces, were martyred by natives they befriended.
Juan Bono arrived from Spain with 70 men. Trusting tribes were then enslaved in Puerto Rico.
1530 – 1534. King Ferdinand appointed Don Antonio Sedeño, Captain and Governor-General of Trinidad from July 12, 1530. On November 8, the conquistador landed on the Bay of Erin with 2 caravels and 70 men, food, arms and livestock . They presented gifts to the tribe who greeted them and built a fort. After conflict with other tribes, they fled to the Spanish Main leaving soldiers in Fort Paria which conquistador Diego de Ordas then took. After another battle, Sedeño returned in 1532 with 80 men, destroyed Cumucurapo then fled to Margarita. Returning in 1533, they were attacked and went to Fort Paria in 1534
1538 Sedeño died on the mainland poisoned by a slave .
1580-1597 Governor Don Antonio de Berrio founded San José de Oruña in 1592 Capital of Spanish Trinidad 1592 – 1783. St. Joseph is the oldest town.
1584 Queen Elizabeth 1 granted Sir Walter Raleigh a royal charter to explore the New World.
1585 Anglo -Spanish War
1592 Permanent settlement began
1594 -5 John Whiddon assisted the 1595 expedition by Raleigh who landed at Terra de Brea. Caribs showed him the Pitch Lake where he took pitch to caulk ships. On 4 April Raleigh disembarked 100 soldiers at Port-of-Spain, overwhelming the Spanish garrison before capturing San José de Oruña and General Mayor Alvaro Jorge. Governor de Berrio persuaded Raleigh to save the town.
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1677 Rockley Bay, site of Scarborough Harbour, was the scene of a battle between Dutch and French navies with the loss of 14 vessels and over 1,200 lives.
1717-1796 Vice-royalty of Nueva Granada, Province of Venezuela
1797 Governor Jose Maria Chacon surrendered to Sir Ralph Abercromby commanding a British fleet
1797-1810 Governor Sir Thomas Picton
1802 British colony
1807 Dr Nicholas Nugent, of the British Geological Society, arrived to study the Pitch Lake.
1834-8 Abolition of slavery
1845 In May, teak frigate Fatel Razack, owned by Calcutta mogul merchant Abdool Rozack Dugman, commanded by English Captain Cubit Rundle docked in South Quay Port-of-Spain. Governor Sir Henry Mcleod welcomed the 225 British Indians who were indentured on 9 estates: La Reconnaissance -Lopinot, Beau Sejour -Bande de L’Est, Diamond -Diego Martin, Perseverance -Couva, Williamsville -Savana Grande, Les Efforts, Pointe-a-Pierre, Cedar Hill- Naparima and Carolina-Caroni.
1851 The 10th Earl of Dundonald founded the Lake Asphalt Company to exploit the world’s largest natural deposit of asphalt.
1857 Merrimac Company drilled first oil well 61 metres deep in the vicinity of the Pitch Lake
1858- 1860 The Geological Survey . Report on the Geology of Trinidad
1864 Prehistoric sies were identified and ceramics found at Erin, Cedros and Palo Seco. Petroglyphs from Maracas Valley bone spear points and stone tools from Ortoire were recorded.
1860-65 Kerosene was distilled from pitch of La Brea
1865 Captain Walter Darwent founded the Paria Oil Co. to drill for oil in south Trinidad
1866 Walter Darwent drilled first successful oil well at Aripero estate in Oropouche.The first wells were drilled into Pitch Lake oil seeps with the first commercial well in 1903.
1871 Historic oil town Faizabad was founded by Canadian Presbyterian Missionary to the East Indians, Rev.Kenneth Grant, founder of the first high school, Naparima College in 1894.
1889 Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
1902 Randolph Rust and John Lee Lum drilled and tested a well which flowed 455 liters of light oil in 2 hours. Output of 100b/d ended after 300 barrels and the well was closed for lack of transport.
1903 Guyaguayare No. 3…first well drilled with rotary equipment.
1904 A Mines Department instituted as a branch of the Public Works with the production of manjak.
Geological mapping of oilfields began.
1906-7 Trinidad Oil Syndicate at Point Fortin
1907 Rust and partners abandoned Guayaguayare field.
1908 Commercial oil production begins in Point Fortin near the Pitch Lake, La Brea.
Trinidad Lake Petroleum Company shipped its first oil from Brighton in 1911.
1910 Trinidad Oilfields Limited formed. First export of crude oil was by tanker at Brighton, La Brea
1911 Discovery of Tabaquite field, northernmost oilfield on land, to date. Trinidad Central Oilfields was formed as a private company.
The Venezuelan Oil Company discovered Barrackpore field.
1911-12 At Parry Lands prolific TOL. well flowed 10,000 barrels/ day from a depth of 1,400 feet.
1912 Small refinery built at Point Fortin
1913, United British Oilfields Trinidad Limited (UBOT), subsidiary of the Shell Oil Company. acquired oil-producing properties and built a refinery, jetty, houses, railways and pipelines .
Trinidad Leaseholds Limited founded.
1914 TLL drilled and produced the discovery well for Forest Reserve Field.
Production reached 1 MMB/year. The industry employed 1,200.
In WW1 1914-18 Trinidad oil fuelled the Royal Navy.
1916-17 Trinidad Leaseholds Limited established a small refinery in Pointe-a Pierre.
1917 A pipeline transported crude oil from Forest Reserve to Pointe-a-Pierre while another carried light crude from Tabaquite to Claxton Bay. Apex Oil Company, subsidiary of Anglo-French Company and British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate discovered oil on Geddes Grant Cocoa Estate Fyzabad. T.Geddes Grant was a director.
The steamer S.S. Ganges, docked at Nelson Island on 22 April, the last ship transporting indentured Brtish Indians to the West Indies. 421 passengers disembarked, bound for WIlliamsville, Petit Mourne, Caroni, Tarouba, Cedar Hill, Brechin Castle, Union Hall, Picton, Waterloo, Esperanza, Perseverance, Orange Grove, Bronte, Forres Park and La Vega.
1919 Refinery capacity grew to 9,000 barrels of oil per day. 66 % of oil produced was refined locally.
1920 Kern River Oilfields of California acquired rights from C. Stollmeyer in Perseverance Estate where Kern Trinidad Oilfields was established at Guapo. Output reached 1m barrels in 1939.
1921 Production began from the Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd. Cat Cracker Unit at Pointe-a-Pierre.
The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA) was established at St. Augustine on August 30, In 1960 ICTA became the second campus of the University College of the West Indies (UCWI) – an external college of London University. ICTA became the Faculty of Agriculture in 1962 when the UCWI became The University of the West Indies. Fredrick Hardy conducted soil capability reports for Trinidad and Tobago and a Caribbean soil survey. He became Professor of Chemistry and Soil Science, and Head of the Department of Chemistry and Soil Science at ICTA. The Regional Research Centre funded by the Commonwealth Development and Welfare Fund gained an international reputation for excellence. UWI Trinidad library thus housed publications on minerals before Geology and Engineering Departments opened.
In 1921, industry icon, Dr Hans Kugler of Switzerland mapped the “Apex anticline”, leading to record-breaking yields for Apex Oil Company,
1922 Trinidad Petroleum Development Co. at Santa FLora.
1923 Petroleum, Association of Trinidad
1925 H. Kugler joined Trinidad Petroleum Development Company. TPD struck oil in Palo Seco. TPD-BP acquired Siparia, Palo Seco, Fyzabad and Moruga. Guayaguayare was developed.
First PanAm seaplane -flying boat- landed. Aviator Colonel Charles Lindbergh delivered the first airmail at Chaguaramas.
1927 Launch of Trinidad branch of Institute of Petroleum December
1928 Dome Oil Company fire in Fyzabad
1930 Crude oil production rose to 10 million barrels per year. TPD built refinery at Santa FLora.
First import of oil from Venezuela for refining locally. First geophysical surveys in Brighton .
1931 First aeroplane landed at Piarco airstrip, heralding the aviation industry.
1932 Electrical well logging introduced.
1933 Trinidad Oilfields Ltd. introduces gas injection in the Forest Reserve Upper Cruse sand. A hurricane destroyed the Guayaguayare industry and agriculture.
1935 Antilles Petroleum Company launched
1935 Grenada agitator, Uriah Butler, joined the Trinidad Labour Party led by Captain Arthur Cipriani whom he had served in WW1. The Fyzabad rigman demanded better pay and conditions from Apex Managing Director Colonel HCB Hickling and led a march to Port-of-Spain.
1936 UBOT discovered Penal
1937 On June 19th the Volunteer Company fired at Apex strikers led by Butler who threw Policeman Charlie King from a building and the mob set him alight. Riots erupted in all oilfields. Strife. spread in sugar estates . Armed rioters outnumbered police and 19 were killed, 78 wounded and hundreds of strikers were arrested over 2 days Sending reinforcements to retrieve the dead King, English Inspector Bradburn was shot and killed. Royal Marines from HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter quelled the unrest. Butler surrendered and was jailed. A militant Oilfield Workers Trade Union was launched.
First geological map from aerial surveys by Karl Rohr. of TLL.
1938 Gravity surveys. First well in Norhtern basin near Talparo.
1939 First International Geological Conference .40 geologists from Trinidad, British Guiana, the West Indies, Europe and the USA attended The Trinidad Geological Conference, April 18-27, 1939, sponsored by the Petroleum Association of Trinidad, the Government, TLL and other oil companies.
1940 Refining capacity grew to approximately 285,000 bbl/day. Aviation fuel supplied the Royal Air Force in WW2 . BWIA launched.
USA leased Chaguaramas peninsula for a Naval Base.
1941 US leased Waller Field for Waller Army Airfield, activated with the 92d Service Group.
1942 Gulf of Paria Treaty marked the maritime boundary with Venezuela.
1948 Regent Oil Co., Ltd., a joint U.K. marketing firm distributed products of Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd. and the California Texas Oil Co., Ltd.
1952 First offshore seismic survey.
1947 Trinidad remained the largest petroleum producer in the British Empire
1949 Trinidad Branch of Institute of Petroleum initiated compilation of a history of the oil industry.
1953 Exploration in the Galeota Block began with seismic acquisition. T&TEC introduced natural gas as fuel for steam generators at Penal Power Station
Trinidad Petroleum Development Company (later BP) award to Rio Claro native, Aftab Khan for study at the University of Birmingham where he gained a Ph.D. in palaeomagnetism, the first Trinidad-born geologist. He studied at Curepe Presbyterian School then Queen’s Royal College.
1954 Trinidad Northern Areas Limited (TRINMAR), a consortium of BP (then Anglo-Iranian Oil Company), TLL (later Texaco) and UBOT (Shell) discovered oil in the Gulf of Paria at High Seas Well, now Soldado 1. Thus began marine drilling for oil in the Soldado Field.
Apex drilled Fyzabad Well No. 560, deepest well on land, to 16,155 feet.
British Petroleum formed.
1955 Dominion Oil Limited discovered the northern-most gas field at Mahaica. .
Trinmar initiated production from Soldado oilfield. Trinmar acreage comprised 75,737 hectares in the Gulf of Paria which extends across 517, 997.6 hectares ( 2000 square miles).
1956 Texas Company acquired the Trinidad Oil Company. TTOC, formerly TLL.
1957. Texas Company acquired Antilles, merging it with Texaco Trinidad.
1958 Antilles drillted first well 1.2 miles from Brighton.on an offshore platform designed to accommodate 36 wells, a world record for this type of platform. Dominion explored Gulf of Paria.
1958-62 Federation of the West Indies
1959 Federation Chemicals Ltd. pioneered the use of natural gas in Trinidad and Tobago as a chemical feedstock in the manufacture of ammonia.
Dr H. Kugler published first Geological map of Trinidad.
1961 Dominion drilled Galeota No. 1 first exploratory well offshore the East Coast . Oil output was uneconomic in this and later wells. Pan American Oil (PATO), Sun Oil and Pure Oil obtained exploration rights to all the shallow water acreage on the East Coast.
1962-1981 Dr Eric WIlliams was the first Prime Minister at Independence. John O’Halloran was the first Minister of Petroleum and Mines
1963 Commission of Enquiry into the Industry. Krishna Persad, first Texaco scholar in Geology at UWI, 10 years after Trinidad pioneer, Professor Aftab Khan.
1965 Fourth Caribbean Geological Conference, Port of Spain
1967 Production achieved a new high of 65 million barrels per year. First Texaco female geologist.
1968 PATO, then American International Oil Company (AMOCO) made first commercial oil discovery with gas in well OPR-2 in Teak Field off Pt. Radix East Coast
Government and the United Nations undertook a seismic survey off the North Coast.
1969 New Petroleum Legislation enacted Act No. 46 of 1969.
Government in a joint venture with Tesoro Corporation acquired local assets of British Petroleum; its first venture into national ownership of an oil company. Trinidad-Tesoro acquired BP with state control of 50.1%. The National Petroleum Company was established.
1970 North Coast Marine Areas were the .First Marine concessions under the new petroleum act
Blackpower riots followed protests by UWI militants and trade unions. In a state of emergency a mutiny in the Defence Force was contained. OWTU literature was seized and the government charged 55 soldiers with treason and nine leaders with sedition. Prime Minsiter Eric WIlliams removed 2 white cabinet ministers, John O’Halloran, Minister of Industry and Gerard Montano, Minister of Home Affairs, to appease racist identity politicians.
1970-73 Overand Padmore was Minister of ENergy.
1971 Drilling began off the North Coast and natural gas was discovered. Amoco found Samaan oil field on the East Coast.
1972 Trinidad and Tobago National Petroleum Marketing Company created. Commercial production of oil began offshore the East Coast from the AMOCO Teak Platform. Delta Exploration Co. was contracted to conduct a seismic survey of 2 million acres offshore East Coast and Gulf of Paria.
Amoco found Poui oilfield.
1973-75 Francis Prevatt was Energy Minister.
1973 Amoco found Cassia gasfield.
First oil crisis . began when OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia and Iran proclaimed an oil embargo targeted at UK, USA, Canada, Japan and other supporters of Israel. The oil price rose nearly 300% from USD3/barrel to nearly USD12/barrel and the shock affected global politics and the world economy..
1974 Government acquired operations of Shell Trinidad Limited and formed the Trinidad and Tobago Oil Company Limited (TRINTOC). Petroleum Taxes Act revised the taxation methods and introduced the Refinery Throughput Tax. Government introduced Production Sharing Contracts.
1975-1981 Errol Mahabir was Minister of Energy
1975 National Gas Company was launched for transmission and sales of natural gas from producers . A new ammonia plant, Tringen was commissioned as a joint venture between W. R. Grace and the Government .
1976 The Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago was created
1977 The Government takes its option of an additional 20 per cent participation in South Coast Consortium as a commercial discovery is announced. Tringen- Commissioning activities were completed. Shipment of ammonia began to the U.S.A. and Europe.
1978 Nationalisation of Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company, which processes and exports Trinidad Lake Asphalt (TLA), mined from the Pitch Lake and supplies Bitumen.
1979 Two offshore compression facilities through which ‘flared’ gas could be compressed, prior to being transferred to land for commercial use in areas such as power generation.
FERTRIN Sod-breaking ceremony
1980 Formation of the National Energy Corporation to purchase gas at wellheads. Commissioning of the Iron and Steel Company of Trinidad and Tobago (ISCOTT)
1981-1985 George Chambers became Prime Minister
1981 -1986 Patrick Manning became Minister of Energy
1981 TRINTOC granted an Exploration and production (Public Petroleum Rights) Licence over Block 9-North of the NW Peninsula of Trinidad.
1982 TRINTOC enters into agreement with TEXACO Trinidad Inc. for the processing of 1 million bbls of crude oil. Gas compression project came on stream, reducing flaring. National Gas Company begins installation of the second cross- country pipeline
1983 Cassia Gas Field comes on stream . Urea plant at Point Lisas commissioned in December Decline in world crude oil prices. OPEC marker crude price cut from $34/bbl., which adversely affects the local oil industry. Supplemental Petroleum Tax for land operations reduced from 35% to 15%. Offshore section of NOC 760 mm (30 inch) pipeline completed and put into service.
Seismic survey using the vibroseis method initiated by Western Geophysical Co. (of USA)
1984 Crude oil production registers first increase since 1978, production rose from 155.078 bbl/d to 163,937 bbl/d, an increase in average daily production of 6.0% above the 1983 average.
Data from the marine seismic new areas off the North and East Coast of Trinidad and Tobago, put on sale. Joint UNDP/ World Bank Assessment of Trinidad and Tobago undertaken.
Proman M1 Methanol Plant at Point Lisas begins commercial production.
The National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST) promotes science and its applicaitons and guides funding of research and development to support economic diversification. It operates the National Science Centre where hands-on projects are open to schools.
1985 AMOCO produces its 500 millionth barrel of crude oil i.e. 22.6% of total crude production for the country at that date. Submarine production allowance terminated with effect from 31.12.83.
Texaco Trinidad ( TEXTRIN) is integrated with TRINTOC as government acquired Pointe-a-Pierre refinery and other assets. Fire on TRINTOC, Pointe-a-Pierre jetty kills 14 employees.
GOTT acquired Tesoro Corporation’s 49.9% equity in Trinidad-Tesoro Petroleum Company Limited for 3.23 million barrels of residual fuel to be paid over a period of 18 months: May 1986 to November 1987.. Company Name change to Trinidad and Tobago Petroleum Company Limited (TRINTOPEC).
1986 OPEC failed to agree on an oil production policy to reverse the collapse in world oil prices. This decline in oil prices had a negative impact on the local oil industry.
Compressed natural gas (as a substitute motor car fuel) pilot project is launched and the first CNG filling station inaugurated.
1986-1991 Barrister ANR Robinson became Prime Minister with election victory of the National Alliance for Reconstruction
1986-7 Kelvin Ramnath was Minister of Energy
1987-9 Albert Richards was Minister of Energy
1989-91 Herbert Atwell was Minister of Energy
1988 Trintomar Limited incorporated to develop and operate acreage held by the South East Coast Consortium.in the Pelican Gas FIeld.. It comprised Trintoc 40%, Trintopec 40% and NGC 20%. The projrect failed after a cost overrun of USD40million.
Three offshore blocks: 511, Lower Reverse ‘L”-shaped and “U”-shaped blocks put up for competitive bidding. GOTT revises Supplemental Petroleum Taxes and announces major tax incentives for workovers and marine heavy oil production.
1989 Bidding invited for four new blocks off the East Coast – Block 89/2, Block 89/3, Block 89/4 and Block 89/5. Introduction of the lease operatorship and farmout programme. Exploration and Production Licence signed for Block 5-11 (Trintopec/Mobil).
Phoenix Park Gas Processors Ltd. joint venture agreement signied
Caribbean Ispat commenced operations. .
BG acquired offshore interests of Tenneco Inc.
1990 Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago sign an oil cooperation agreement.
In July , over 100 members of radical Islamist Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, stormed a TV station and parliament. held the prime minister and colleagues hostage and bombed the police headquarters. As violence and looting erupted for 6 days. 24 people died and many were injured. After the state of emergency ended, Port-of-Spain was reduced to rubble, 20 years after blackpower riots and 53 years after the Butler riot.
1991 Block 89/2 and 89/3 awarded to BHP (Americas) Inc. and Unocal Corporation respectively.
Norsk Hydro-Agri Trinidad Limited commenced operations in January and operated three ammonia plants in Point Lisas.
Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited commenced operations.
1991-1995 Patrick Manning, Texaco sacholar and geologist becomes Prime Minister.
1992 EOG Resources began operations and was contracted to sell gas to NGC and condensate to Petrotrin.
1993 The Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Petrotrin) is registered on January 21, 1993, with an authorized share capital of TT$1,500 million. Petrotrin is the single entity formed by the merger of the state-owned oil companies – Trintoc and Trintopec.
British Gas signed a revised production sharing contract with the Government. Caribbean Methanol Company came onstream at Point Lisas and became Methanol Holdings Trinidad Ltd. Enron and British Gas /Texaco lease marine fields Keskidee and Dolphin respectively.
1994 Gas production overtook oil output.
1995 LNG Consortium forms Atlantic LNG. Construction of Atlantic facility began at Point Fortin.
1995-2001 Lawyer, economist and actor Basdeo Panday became the first Prime Minister of British Indian origin.
Finbar Ganga was Minister of Energy 1995-2000
1996 Government opens 3rd round of competitive bidding for 13 leases for deep water production sharing contracts with international companies. Trinidad Exploration and Development Company Limited (TED) signed an exploration and production licence with the Government in February.
Venture Production founded by Bruce DIngwall
Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) signed a production sharing contract and began operations in April. Talisman (Trinidad) Holdings Limited signed a production sharing contract with Government in April. ELF Exploration Trinidad B.V. signed a production sharing contract with the Government in November.
1997 Repsol Exploration signed a production sharing contract with the Government in January. AGIP Trinidad and Tobago Ltd signed a production sharing contract with the Government in March . Deminex Trinidad Petroleum GmbH signed a production sharing contract in March
Farmland MissChem Limited commenced operations .
Messer Trinidad and Tobago Limited entered a joint venture with Neal and Massy and was incorporated in 1997. It operated three industrial gas plants in Point Lisas.
PCS Nitrogen Trinidad Limited acquired Arcadian’s operations.
Amoco was the major player having added 7 tcf of natural gas and 100 million bbl of crude ol to reserves since 1994. Its 1995-96 drilling program made 7 discoveries with significant volumes of natural gas.
1997 National Energy Skills Center (NESC) is a non-profit institution incorporated on July 15. Administered from the Main Campus and Administrative Offices in Point Lisas, Couva, it operates 12 campuses including a Drilling Academy.
1998 Petrotrin completed and commissioned US$355 million ’Pointe-a-Pierre Refinery Upgrade.
EXXONMOBIL Exploration & Production Trinidad Limited signed a production sharing contract .
Trinidad Shell Exploration and Production B. V. signed a production sharing contract . .
New Horizon commenced operations in September.
BP acquired Amoco assets in a $48.2 billion mega-merger, led by CEO Lord Browne.
1999 Venture Production (Trinidad) Limited entered a joint venture with Petrotrin in October
Atlantic LNG starts production with Train I. Texaco sells Trinmar share to Government.
2000 Agreement reached for expansion of Atlantic LNG Trains 2 and 3.
2000-2001 Lindsay Gillette was Minister of Energy
2001 BHP Billiton announces that wells Canteen1 and Kairi 1 encountered significant oil and gas columns in previously untested undiscovered Oligocene sands.
Titan Methanol Company reported first production in April .
Caribbean Nitrogen Company commenced operations.
UWI launched Petroleum Geoscience degree, sponsored by BP, BG and other petroleum companies.
2001-2010 Patrick Manning wins second term as Priome Minister
2002-2006 Eric Williams became Energy Minister
2002 Vermillion entered a joint venture with Petrotrin. First commercial gas produced from British Gas North Coast Marine acreage. 9th ammonia plant comes on stream.
Phoenix Park Gas Processors signs Train 2 and Train 3 natural gas liquids agreement with Atlantic LNG. Train 2 first commercial shipment in September ..
bpTT installation of the second largest natural gas processing/production platform in Kapok Field.
Natural gas production begins from North Coast Hibiscus field . BHP Billiton declares commerciality of the Greater Angostura Structure, Reserves estimated at 1 billion barrels oil & 1 tcf gas.
BG / Texaco announces Dorado 1 gas discovery in block 5a.
bptt announces that Iron Horse 1s1t found 1tcf natural gas.
TED spuds first exploration well on south-west penninsula lease.
Block U-b awarded to Primera and EOG.
Vintage Petroleum announces gas and condensate discovery at Carapal Ridge 1, Trinidad, 1st since Navette in 1957.
Block 3A awarded to the consortium of BHP Billiton (operator) , TFE, BG & Talisman.
Eastern Block awarded to Talisman (joint venture).
EOG announced commercial gas discovery with Parula 1 in the SECC block.
EOG awarded Reverse L block.
MOE begins aquisition of Ultra deep water 2D seismic survey.
Venture Petroleum began exploration and development drilling on the Point Ligoure Joint Venture.
EOG began commercial production from Osprey Gas field
Exxon-Mobil drilled 2 wells in blocks 25(b) and 26, bptt in Block 27 (deep water).
bptt announced Red Mango 2st1 as a gas/condensate discovery.
2003 BPTT commissions the world’s largest offshore gas processing facility, Cassia B, capable of producing 2 billion cubic feet of gas a day. BPTT installs Bombax, BP’s largest diameter marine pipeline worldwide (48″) and one of the largest in the world.
Cross border talks with Venezuela and signing an MOU and Letter of Intent.
Offshore competitive bid rounds held for 9 shallow water shelf and deep water blocks
Draft of the Quarry Policy Green Paper .
2004 6 blocks awarded from the “2003 Competitive Bid Rounds”: 1(a), 1(b), 3(b), 4(a), 5(c) and 22.
Stimulation of production of onshore acreages via 1. PETROTRIN surrendering individual “Deeds of Surrender” and being re-awarded “Core Areas” licences incorporating new terms and conditions. 2. Establishing a consortium of companies for the Southern Basin onshore exploration project.
Two new petrochemical plants established: Atlas Methanol and the N2000
Formulation and implementation of a “Local content policy”.
The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) launched to build engineering capacity for the industry.
2005 ALNG Train 4 was completed ahead of schedule in December
Start of construction of the 56” Cross Island Pipeline from Beachfield to Pt. Fortin, largest in the Western Hemisphere.
Construction of four offshore platforms at LABIDCO: Oilbird, Cannonball, Cashima and Mango.
“2005/6 Competitive Bid Round” offered 8 onshore and 8 deepwater blocks.
2006 The Petroleum Fiscal Review was implemented which made amendments to major legislation including: Supplemental petroleum Tax. A new model PSC emerged.
2006-7 Dr Lenny Saith becomes Energy Minister
2007 Ten Degrees North buyout of Venture Production assets- Onshore fields (WD-13, WD-14 and Tabaquite) and West Coast Assets (Guapo Bay/Brighton Marine (“BM”) and Point Ligoure Marine Area) Acquisition of Pioneer and Lennox assets.Incorporation of Trinity Exploration & Production Limited.
2012-13 Trinity added West Coast assets and acquired Bayfield Energy. AIM listed on London Stock Exchange.
Oil discovery in Galeota Licence. Trinity is now the largest Trinidad & Tobago focused independent E&P Company.
2007-2010 Conrad Enill becomes Energy Minister
The “Unitization Framework Treaty” for the cross border gas between Venezuela and TT was signed, Trinidad and Tobago and the Venezuela executed a Treaty relating to the unitization of hydrocarbon reservoirs that extend across the delimitation line between the countries. The Treaty established the general framework under which any cross-border reservoir would be exploited. It obliged the parties to conclude specific unitization agreements for the exploitation and development of cross-border hydrocarbon reservoirs within the unit area. It provided for the establishment of a Joint Ministerial Commission and a Steering Committee to facilitate implementation of the Treaty.
Reservoirs would be exploited and developed as a single unit, with determination of the area and allocation of hydrocarbons by a Reservoir Technical Working Group comprising representatives of the companies and the resource owners. A Unit Operator was to be appointed from the companies, subject to approval of the parties, to develop hydrocarbons within the Unit Area. Reservoirs exist within 3 fields, Loran-Manatee, the Manakin-Cocuina, and Kapok-Dorado on the southern and northern continental shelves between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
The first field to be considered for unitization on the basis of the terms in the Treaty was the Loran- Manatee, a shallow-water field straddling the maritime boundary which forms a single, cross-border unit. Loran-Manatee spans a surface area of 209.42 sq km, which comprises Block 2 of the Venezuelan Plataforma Deltana, with a surface area of 169.07 sq km and a part of Block 6d in the South- West Marine Area of Trinidad and Tobago, with a surface area of 48.35 sq km. Exploration initially by SOC Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and later by US Corporation Chevron, which held a 60%, interest encountered a substantial volume of gas. In 2005 Chevron/BG, which held a joint interest of 50% each in the Block 6 comprising Sub-Block 6b and Sub-Block 6d, discovered the Manatee field in Block 6d. Subsequent technical evaluation by a Reservoir Technical Working Group comprising representatives of Chevron, BG (now Shell), PDVSA and MEEI ascertained that the fields were integrated. Chevron subsequently sold its interest in Block 6 to Shell which now has 100% interest in the block. Following negotiations, a Unitization Agreement for Loran- Manatee was prepared and accepted by both Governments. In August 2010 Cabinet agreed that Trinidad and Tobago participate with Venezuela in the exchange of instruments of ratification in respect of the Treaty and the execution of field specific Loran- Manatee Unitization Agreement. On August 16, 2010, the Governments exchanged instruments of ratification in respect of the Treaty which officially brought the Treaty into force, facilitating the execution of the field specific Loran- Manatee Unitization Agreement. The Reservoir Technical Working Group established the gas in place in the Loran-Manatee Field at approximately 10.07 tcf of which 2.712 tcf or 26.94% is within the maritime area of Trinidad and Tobago and 7.357 tcf or 73.06% within the maritime area of Venezuela. A Ministerial Committee and a Steering Committee were established to facilitate the implementation and execution of the Treaty and related agreements. A Unitization and Unit Operating Agreement was developed for the exploitation and development of the Loran-Manatee field.
9 blocks were awarded in the “2005/6 Competitive Bid Round”.
2009 BPTT Savonette platform installed and 1st gas produced.
2010 BPTT Serrette platform installed.
2010-2015 Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar of the UNC became the first female Prime Minister, defeating incumbent Patrick Manning , MP for San Fernando East . Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan became the first female Minister of Energy.
2010 Parex discovered the first onshore light oil in 50 years in the Snowcap 1 well.
2011 Kevin Ramnarine appointed Minister of Energy.Niko Resources, RWE Dea and Centrica signed PSAs for 4 blocks off the north and east coasts. The government offered incentives to promote deepwater acreage for exploration.9 deepwater “production sharing contracts” (PSC’s) were signed with BHP Billiton and its partners. BHP Billiton conducted the second largest 3D seismic survey by an International Oil Company in the history of the oil industry, covering 20,1999 square kilometers of the deepwater province of Trinidad and Tobago. Fiscal incentives led to investments in deep-offshore by companies such as BHP and a four-fold increase in petroleum related Foreign Direct Investment from $US 501 million in 2010 to $US 1.9 billion in 2014.
2012 Petrotrin found light oil in Jubilee field at Trinmar.
2013 The first energy- related Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the history of Trinidad and Tobago was launched. The TTNGL (Phoenix Park) IPO became the largest IPO in the history of the TT Stock Exchange . An Additional Public Offering (APO) followed in June 2017. The Petroleum Economist bestowed the award of “Energy Executive of the Year” on Ramnarine. in 2014
2013-4 Petrotrin completed onshore 3D seismic survey and ocean bottom seismic survey.
2014 Touchstone Exploration Inc., incorporated in Canada , one of the largest independent onshore oil producers in Trinidad, has assets in high-quality reservoirs and an extensive inventory of oil and gas development and exploration opportunities. Common shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Touchstone acquired assets of WD-8,Coora 1, Coora 2 ,WD-4, South Palo Seco, New Dome, Barrackpore, Fyzabad, Icacos Palo Seco, San Francique , Siparia , East Brighton,Moruga , Bovallius, Otaheite, St. John, Rousillac, Piparo, New Grant, Cory Moruga and Ortoire.
2015 People’s National Movement wins election with 52% of the vote and 23 of 41 seats. Keith Rowley, a hard-rock geologist with a PhD from UWI Trinidad became Prime Minister The new Minister of Energy Nicole Olivierre attended the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries Forum Summit in Iran.
Ryder Scott Audit of Non-Associated Natural Gas Reserves.
DeNovo becomes Proman’s upstream operating company focused on monetizing proven natural gas reserves for use in the energy sector . As its first foray into hydrocarbon extraction, DeNovo is an integral part of Proman’s full value-chain integration.
2014- 2024 Poten and Partners Natural Gas Master Plan 2014 to 2024
2016 Senator Franklyn Khan appointed Minister of Energy after serving as Minister of Rural Development and Local Government. A Petroleum Geologist with a BSc Degree in Geology and Geography (1980) from the UWI and a MBA (2007) from Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, UWI, he spent 20 years in the energy sector. He was President of the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago, a Director of the Water and Sewage Authority (WASA) (1986-1990) and Chairman of National Petroleum Marketing Co. Ltd. (NPMC) from 2001-2002. He sanctioned Trinidad and Tobago’s first large-scale renewable energy project.
Royal Dutch Shell sealed the $53 billion (£36 billion ) acquisition of British rival BG Group to form the world’s top liquefied natural gas company, Shell signed a 3-year MOU with UWi Trinidad to contribuite USD 30,000 to sponsor 3-year scholarships for MSc/PhD research in Geosciences and Petroleum Technology.
DeNovo acquired Iguana gas field.
Cooperation Agreement signed with Government of Ghana.
Meeting of CARICOM –United States Trade and Investment Council (TIC)
2017 Energy Task Force appointed. Trinidad Regional Onshore Compression Project (TROC) and the Juniper Project. The cumulative effect of projects such as Sercan, TROC and Juniper led to an increase in natural gas production from an average of 3,348MMscf/d in January to 3,816MMscf/d in December.
At Petrotrin a new Board of Directors was appointed with a mandate to return the company to profitability and its management as a private commercially oriented company.
2018 90% of Petrotrin local sales have been fuel – 46% from gasoline, 37% from diesel, 11% from jet fuel and 5% from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or cooking gas). Petrotrin exported to the Caricom market, mainly Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana. TT$8 billion was lost over five years. Due to lack of competitiveness and declining production, on 30 November 2018 Petrotrin was shut down with the largest refinery closed after 101 years in operation, TT$12 billion in debt, and the loss of foreign exchange due to the imports to keep the refinery in operation.5,500 employees lost their jobs
4 new companies became effective from 1 December 2018:
Trinidad Petroleum Holding Limited – Legacy matters such as settling outstanding financial debts by Petrotrin and the parent company of the following three companies:
Heritage Petroleum Company Limited – Exploration, development, production and marketing of crude oil.
Paria Fuel Trading Company – Trading and marketing of imported fuel products.
Guaracara Refining Company – Holding company for the iconic Pointe-a-Pierre refinery and related assets to be offered for sale.
Heritage Petroleum Company Limited incorporated on 5th October commenced operations on 1st December..
Trinidad and Tobago undertook the Presidency of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).
20th Ministerial Meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).
Revenue from oil and gas companies for fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2017 fell from TT$20.9Bn or 35.7% of total Government revenue of TT$58.4Bn, to TT$12.9Bn or 22.6% of total Government revenu. in 2015, to TT$3.0Bn or 6.6 % of total Government revenue in 2016, to TT$3.7 Bn or 10.1% of total Government revenue in 2017,The decline from 2014 to 2017 was eighty percent (80%.) Royalty rate on oil and gas rose to 12.5%.
Legislation to address transfer pricing and clarify current tax laws as they relate to artificial and non-arm’s length transactions tabled in Parliament.
New gas contracts were executed for the supply of gas to downstream.
BP, Shell, BHP and EOG committed to investing over US$10Bn over five (5) years. The net result is that gas production reached its highest in years.
BPTT will drill 5 development wells, 2 on Angelin and 3 on Cannonball. First gas from Angelin is expected in first quarter 2019.
Shell will drill 7 development wells in its East Coast Marine Area (ECMA), 3 wells are earmarked for the Starfish Field and 4 in the Dolphin Field. with 1 appraisal well for Blocks 5(c) and 5(d)
DeNovo Energy, which operates Block 1(a) on the West Coast , will drill three (3) development wells in its Iguana Field. Drilling and completion are expected during 2018 with first gas projected for the fourth quarter, at an initial rate of 60 MMscf/d.
A Gas Sales Agreement for Dragon Gas among NGC, Shell and PDVSA for a gas supply estimated at an initial 150 MMscfd per day was expected to be executed in the first quarter 2018. BHP will recommence deep-water exploration with the drilling of three (3) exploration wells, two (2) of these wells to be drilled in Block TTDAA 5 and the third in Block TTDAA 14. BHP drilled the LeClerc-1 well during 2016 as the first of two exploration wells required during the first exploration phase of the Block TTDAA 5 Production Sharing Contract (PSC). The result was preliminarily classified by BHP as a Natural Gas Discovery.
BHP drilled the deep-water Victoria Prospect in Block 5 with the Drill Ship Invictus.
The major oil producer is Petrotrin, which together with contracted services account for approximately 58 per cent of total production of crude oil and condensatet of approximately 72,000 barrels of oil per day. . The company is in a challenging financial position, heavily indebted, to the tune of TT$13Bn and has a substantial working capital deficit. It has high lifting costs on land and in Trinmar. Low refinery utilization and negative margins contributed to losses. Because of financial difficulties Petrotrin has not met obligations to the State, of TT$3Bn. Petrotrin will drill five (5) exploration wells in Trinmar acreage. Five (5) exploration wells will be drilled on Petrotrin’s land acreage by lease and farm-out operators.
Perenco and Petrotrin produce approximately 75% of the crude oil oputput.. Perenco’s crude oil production currently stands at 10,840Bbls/d or approximately 16% of the country’s total oil production.
2019 TT triples LNG exports to PRC
Trinidad and Tobago executed Memoranda of Agreement for the provision of technical assistance in the energy sector with the Government of Guyana and the Government of Grenada. Heritage Petroleum Company which acquired the petroleum production responsibilities of Petrotrin.
Trinidad & Tobago signed an MOU with Barbados to undertake cooperative initiatives, in energy, energy security and energy exploration, development and production in relation to hydrocarbon resources straddling their maritime boundary BHP made gas discoveries in Trinidad & Tobago near the Barbados border and is exploring in Barbados’ waters close to the border.
EOG Resources discovered hydrocarbon in Osprey East well
Proman Trinidad and Tobago founded, after a merger of IPSL and Proman AG TT
2020 Trinidad &Tobago and Venezuela reached agreement to independently develop their respective share of the Loran Manatee Gas Field which could bring 270-400Mmscf/d of gas to Trinidad by 2024/2025
The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela agreed to undertake the separate and independent exploitation and development of the Loran-Manatee Field.
Pursuant to that decision, Cabinet agreed to the following:
The rescission of the Unitization Agreement for the exploitation and development of hydrocarbon reservoirs of the Loran- Manatee Field that extends across the delimitation line between the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela dated August 16, 2010.
The Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the independent development of the cross-border field, the Loran- Manatee (Agreement),
In accordance with Article 7.3 of the Loran- Manatee Unitization Agreement dated August 16, 2010 an official notice of termination of that Agreement was issued by the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This was followed by the execution of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the development of the cross-border field, the Loran- Manatee (Agreement). The Agreement was executed on October 15, 2019.
Accordingly, the Unitization Agreement has been terminated and will have no further force or effect. It has been replaced by a new Agreement between the countries, which allow for the separate and independent exploitation and development of the Loran – Manatee field. Under the terms of the new Agreement the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela have the right to develop its own share of the hydrocarbon reservoirs within the Loran Manatee Field based on a recovery factor of 69% of the estimated gas in place of 10.07 tcf. Trinidad and Tobago therefore can produce up to 1.872 tcf and Venezuela can produce up to 5.076 tcf from the gaseous hydrocarbons in place.
The volumes of gaseous hydrocarbons initially in place, the average percentage of original gas in place for each Party and the assumed recovery factor may be adjusted based on any new data arising from a redetermination of the gas in place. A re-determination may be undertaken after one year but not later than three years from the date of first production by either Party and such other intervals if such request is made at least two (2) years after the most recent redetermination.
The decision to allow each party to independently develop its share of the field will accelerate its development. The Agreement provides for development of reservoirs within the Loran Manatee Field by the exploration and production companies authorized to undertake such activities, in accordance with their respective agreements with the relevant Party. Pursuant to the terms of Block 6 PSC (production sharing contract), in which the Manatee field is located, the contractor, Shell, will be required to prepare and submit for the Minister’s approval a Work Programme and Budget for the contract area encompassing the Manatee Field, setting forth the planned exploration and development activities. Shell has already agreed to undertake and accelerate these requirements.
As regards to the disposition of hydrocarbons produced from Sub-Block 6d (Manatee development), the contractor Shell is to submit a written request to the Minister to initiate negotiations to agree on contract terms in order to commence the appraisal and pre-sanction activities necessary to progress the commercial development of the Manatee field. Shell has initiated preliminary discussions with the Government and is working on various development scenarios for early on stream gas production of the field. It is projected that gas production could commence in the 2025 period at rates ranging from 270mmscf/d to 400 mmscfd.
Natural gas from Loran- Manatee or now the Manatee field was not initially factored in the Government’s gas production forecast but in the light of these agreements, can now be added as significant reserves to sustain the levels of gas consumption at Pt Lisas. This development will therefore augment gas production from 2025 and assist in alleviating gas curtailment that has been a worrying issue for the downstream industry and I dare say, the national economy of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Agreement sets a precedent for further cooperative development of the other smaller but very significant cross-border fields, the Manakin- Cocuina and Kapok –Dorado, in which Trinidad and Tobago has almost 1tcf of available resource.
A Unitization Agreement was executed for the Manakin-Cocuina on February 24, 2015 and a draft Agreement has been prepared for Kapok-Dorado. It is estimated that 0.85 tcf or 850 billion cubic feet of natural gas are located within the Trinidad and Tobago maritime area of these cross-border fields.
Loran-Manatee Field Agreement is a landmark decision in the countries’ cross-border relationship and a major policy shift in the Government’s gas development strategy. It is further testimony of positive initiatives being undertaken by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to meet critical domestic gas requirements for a competitive energy sector and to maintain our position as a major player in the global petrochemical and LNG business.
Contrary to some disappointing but predictable, negative media headline reports, the dismantling of the Loran-Manatee Unitization Agreement is beneficial to Trinidad and Tobago. The previous attempt to extract gas from the Loran Manatee Field has been going on for twenty years without with little real progress to show for it. However as it is said, necessity is the mother of invention and we, having not invented, have successfully found the way to develop our proven resource, to partner with an oil and gas major, to get the long dormant field developed and infrastructure built with the outcome, in the medium term, being gas flowing from these fields on our south-eastern border areas to our national economy at Pt Fortin and Pt Lisas.
Whereas the Loran Manatee field is in the south east and involves a gas field which is shared by Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela the Dragon field which is located on the north west of Trinidad, lies entirely within Venezuelan territory and is owned by the people of Venezuela. Our only interest in this field is wholly commercial and is entirely dependent on possible commercial arrangements. Very early this administration took steps to open up these commercial possibilities to allow Trinidad and Tobago industries to have access to a larger raw material base. The Dragon initiatives when completed and operationalized will also be beneficial to Trinidad and Tobago. The deal is still on but has been prevented from formally moving forward, at this time, by trade restrictions imposed the US Government on Venezuela. This is a development over which we had nor now have any control but any ultimate outcome will always be one of mutual benefit to all the people of Trinidad and Tobago and all the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The genesis of the project was bilateral discussions in April 2016 between the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This led to the execution on May 23rd, 2016, of a Memorandum of Understanding for the Technical and Commercial Studies related to the Natural Gas Supply was signed between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
The objective of the MOU was to set the general conditions for the execution of a Technical Economic Feasibility Study of the natural gas reserves in fields located in the northern and south-eastern areas of the continental shelf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the assessment of the feasibility of developing a gas interconnection between the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
This is an initiative which was welcomed by all the right thinking people . It summarises neighbourly cooperation in our zone of peace and prosperity. Technical Teams from both countries were appointed to evaluate the feasibility of the supply of gas and in particular the Dragon Field, from Venezuela to Trinidad. Following a successful review of the project, a Government-to-Government Agreement on the implementation of a gas interconnection project between the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was finalized. This Agreement was signed in Caracas on the visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and President Maduro on December 5th, 2016.
On January 15, 2017, a Heads of Agreement was executed among NGC, PDVSA and Shell for the extraction of gas from the Dragon field for supply to domestic and LNG industries in Trinidad and Tobago. First gas was projected for 2023 at an initial production rate of 330mscfd increasing to 500mmscfd at peak production. A term sheet, which sets out the commercial terms for the project, has been finalized and agreed to by the participating entities, NGC, PDVSA and Shell. Discussions commenced on the terms of a Gas Sales Agreement. However, further progress has been stymied by US Trade restrictions which have escalated and which target transactions with PDVSA. Notwithstanding , the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are continuing their collaboration on the premise that the trade restrictions on Venezuela will be lifted, sometime, in due course
2022 Headquartered in Switzerland, Proman, the largest petrochemical player was the first Downstream group to expands into the Upstream . Proman, an integrated industrial group and global leader in natural gas derived products, is the world’s second largest methanol producer and one of the ten leading fertiliser companies. A significant services business, Proman has extensive experience in petrochemical plant operations, petrochemical and power plant construction, product marketing and logistics and project management.
Since commencing gas production on its first field (Iguana) in November 2018, DeNovo demonstrated safe and reliable operations. Its second field development Zandolie will be powered by 100% renewable energy.
On 12 July 2022 DeNovo Energy announced delivery of first gas from Zandolie field. The Unmanned Minimum Facility is the second offshore field development to be completed in Block 1 (a) on the West Coast.
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TT state assets
State-Owned Enterprises
• Lake Asphalt of Trinidad and Tobago (1978) Limited
• National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
• National Quarries Company Limited
• Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited
• Trinidad and Tobago National Petroleum Marketing Company Limited
• Union Estate Electricity Generation Company Limited
Majority- Owned Enterprises
• Alutrint Limited
• Alutech Limited
Indirectly -Owned Enterprises
• Atlantic 1 Holdings LLC (A1HLLC)
• Atlantic LNG 4 Holdings Limited (ALNG4HL)
• Block 1 (a) (T&T)
• Caribbean Gas Chemical Limited
• Downstream Petrochemicals Research and Development Limited
• Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited
• Heritage Petroleum Company Limited
• La Brea Industrial Development Company Limited
• Liquid Fuels Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
• National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
• NATPET Investments Company Limited
• NEL Power Holdings Limited
• NGC CNG Company Limited
• NGC E&P (Barbados) Limited. • NGC E&P Investments (Barbados) Limited
• NGC E&P Investments Limited
• NGC E&P Netherlands Cooperatief U.A. • NGC E&P Investments (Netherlands) B.V
• NGC E&P (Netherlands) B.V.
• NGC Group Captive Insurance (Barbados) Limited
• NGC NGL Company Limited
• NGC Petrochemicals Limited
• NGC Pipeline Company Limited (NPL)
• NGC Trinidad and Tobago LNG Limited (formerly NGC LNG (Train 4) Ltd.)
• Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited
• Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
• Petrotrin Panama Incorporated
• Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited
• South East Coast Consortium
• The Guaracara Refining Company Limited
• TSP Assets (Teak, Samaan, Poui)
• Trinidad and Tobago LNG Limited
• Trinidad and Tobago Marine Petroleum Company Limited
• Trinidad Nitrogen Company Limited
• Trinidad Northern Areas Limited
• Trinmar Limited
• Trintoc Services Limited
• Trinidad and Tobago NGL Limited
• Trinidad Generation Unlimited
• Point Fortin LNG Exports Limited (PFLE)
• World GTL Trinidad Limited
List of non-state energy companies
Atlantic LNG N2000 – Nitrogen 2000 Unlimited ATLAS – Atlas Methanol Plant NGC – AUM-NH3 – Ammonia Plant from AUM Complex NHETT – New Horizon Energy Trinidad and Tobago Ltd AVDWL – A&V Drilling and Workover Limited NUTRIEN 1,2,3,4 – Nutrien Ammonia Plants 1, 2, 3, 4 (Formerly PCS) AVOGL – A&V Oil & Gas Ltd NUTRIEN (Urea) – Nutrien Urea Plant
BHP – BHP Billiton Petroleum (Trinidad Block 3) Limited ORB – Ortoire Block BOLT – Beach Oilfield Trinidad Limited PCSL – Petroleum Contracting Services Limited
BPTT – BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC PEREN – Perenco Trinidad & Tobago CEBL – Columbus Energy Bonasse Ltd PLNL – Point Lisas Nitrogen Ltd (formerly Farmland MissChem Ltd) CESL – Columbus Energy Services Ltd POGTL – Primera Oil & Gas T’dad ltd CGCL – Caribbean Gas Chemical Ltd PPGPL – Phoenix Park Gas Processors Ltd CMC (M2) – Caribbean Methanol Company Ltd (& Plant) PRIM – Primera Oil and Gas Ltd (formerly PCOL) CNC – Caribbean Nitrogen Company Ltd (& Plant) PTRIN- RALCOFF – Ralph Coffman Rig DD 111 Development Driller 111 REG ALL – Regina Allen DENOVO – DeNovo Energy REXLII -EICL – Eagle Ibis Consulting Ltd RPTTL – Rocky Point T&T Ltd EOG – EOG Resources Trinidad Ltd RRDSL – Range Resources Drilling Services Ltd FETL – Fram Exploration Trinidad Limited
SHELL – Shell Trinidad HPCL – Heritage Petroleum Co Ltd SVDL – Star Valley Drilling (Trinidad) Ltd HPCL (Offshore) – Formerly Petrotrin Trinmar TDD 3 – Transocean Development Driller 3 JOEDOUG – TEPGL – Trinity Exploration & Production (Galeota)Ltd LOL – Lease Operators Ltd TEPL – Trinity Exploration & Production Ltd (Oilbelt) LTL – Leni Trinidad Ltd
TETL – Touchstone Exploration (Trinidad) Ltd MIV (M4) – Methanol IV Company Ltd Plant TITAN – Titan Methanol Plant M5000 (M5) – M5000 Methanol Plant TMAR – MAERSK DEV – Maersk Developer TRINGEN I & II – Trinidad Nitrogen Company Ltd Plants I & II MAERSK DIS – Maersk Discoverer TTMC I (M1) – Trinidad and Tobago Methanol Company Ltd Plant I MAT1 – Matapal TTMC II (M3) – Trinidad and Tobago Methanol Company Ltd Plant II MEPR – Massy Energy Production Resources WSL – Well Services Petroleum Company Limited MOCL Moonsie Oil Co. Ltd WWL – Walkerwell Limited YARA – Yara Trinidad Ltd