KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Just over a month af­ter a gas leak at At­lantic's Liq­ue­fied Nat­ur­al Gas (LNG) pro­duc­tion fa­cil­i­ty forced an evac­u­a­tion, safe­ty pro­to­cols were ini­ti­at­ed when a fire broke out at the Point Fortin plant yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from At­lantic, the fire oc­curred at one of the pow­er gen­er­a­tion units around 2.15 pm, prompt­ing the com­pa­ny's re­sponse and safe­ty sys­tems to be ac­ti­vat­ed.

The fire was quick­ly ex­tin­guished and there were no in­juries re­port­ed.

The re­lease stat­ed that tech­ni­cal teams were con­duct­ing checks.

Sources in­side the plant said that the fire de­stroyed a tur­bine gen­er­a­tor and that staff was await­ing a safe­ty stand down to get a brief­ing on the in­ci­dent yes­ter­day evening.

How­ev­er, op­er­a­tions con­tin­ued as the fire was iso­lat­ed to a par­tic­u­lar area in the plant.

At­lantic is a ma­jor con­trib­u­tor to T&T's Gross Do­mes­tic Prod­uct and is the sixth largest pro­duc­er of LNG in the world.