Petrotrin exits oil refining business to reinvent itself - Now able to refinance debt and become self-sustainable

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Petrotrin exits oil refining business to reinvent itself - Now able to refinance debt and become self-sustainable

The Petrotrin Board of Directors met on 2018 Tuesday August 28 with its employee
representative unions and the Company’s management to announce plans to end Petrotrin’s oilrefining operations at Pointe-a-Pierre and to redesign entirely its Exploration and Production
business. The restructuring exercise is geared to curtail losses at the state owned oil company and get it on a path to sustainable profitability.

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They took. They went. We lost.

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They took. They went. We lost.

First, the good news. The new Angelin platform, commissioned by bpTT, is home to be installed. If all goes well, it will start producing much needed additional gas in early 2019.

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Intransigence steals jobs

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Intransigence steals jobs

Just as more noise is made about the future – if any – of the former Arcelor Mittal site in Point Lisas, European steelworkers are beginning to see the end of the tunnel in what have been nearly five years of bleakness for the industry.

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Getting the price right

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Getting the price right

Any functioning society must have mechanisms to put right what, sometimes, employers get wrong, especially when it comes to discrimination at work, unfair treatment and abuse of power. This is a given, and employment tribunals play a vital role in making sure employees are treated fairly and within the law.

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No more looking back in anger

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No more looking back in anger

To be successful, timing is everything. People and nations succeed by doing the right thing at the right time. Do the wrong thing, or get your timing wrong, and you are doomed to fail.

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First gas from Dolphin

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First gas from Dolphin

According to a press release, Shell has delivered first gas from its first well in its Dolphin Extension Campaign ahead of schedule in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA).

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Developing small and marginal fields

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Developing small and marginal fields

One of the primary objectives of NGC’s Strategic Plan is to restore balance to the gas supply scenario in Trinidad and Tobago. With supply currently below demand, the Company has been looking at different ways to bridge the gap. Measures have included partnering with Venezuela to monetise the Dragon field, lobbying for renewable energy uptake so molecules could be diverted from electricity generation, collaborating with upstream operators to bring new fields into production and continue their exploration thrust.

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Touchstone announces operational and drilling update

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Touchstone announces operational and drilling update

It was revealed that four of the seven wells are yet to contribute to the current stabilized production of Touchstone. Paul Baay, CEO Touchstone said "We are excited to increase production in the near-term. With the combination of these four wells and the remaining three to be drilled this year, 3 we are looking forward to a strong start to 2019.

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SBM gets contract for 2nd FPSO at Liza

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SBM gets contract for 2nd FPSO at Liza

SBM Offshore recently announced that ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has awarded the Company contracts to perform Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for a second Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Liza development located in the Stabroek block in Guyana

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Social expenditure in times of declining revenue

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Social expenditure in times of declining revenue

At the recent launch of the Trinidad and Tobago Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (TTEITI) Report 2016, perhaps the most anticipated information, apart from whether or not any ‘unexplained discrepancies’ were reported, was the figure for total flows to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago from the reporting companies in the oil and gas sector.  And, even with some knowledge and appreciation of the steady decline in commodity prices coupled with low oil and gas production levels, this figure will still come as a surprise to many.

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