Pe­dro Arasa has been ap­point­ed as Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Caribbean Gas Chem­i­cal Lim­it­ed (CG­CL).

Arasa took up the po­si­tion on Au­gust 2nd. He re­placed Naka­ba Aoy­a­gi who served as CEO from 2019 un­til ear­li­er this month.

Masaa­ki Omote, Chair­man of the Board of Di­rec­tors at CG­CL said; “The Ex­ec­u­tive de­ci­sion to ap­point Pe­dro Arasa demon­strates the com­pa­ny’s recog­ni­tion of his ex­ten­sive knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ence in the sec­tor and his abil­i­ty to steer the com­pa­ny through the next phase of its growth and de­vel­op­ment at this piv­otal time in its op­er­a­tions,”

Arasa held the po­si­tion of Plant Gen­er­al Man­ag­er at CG­CL since the start of con­struc­tion in 2015.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the La Brea based methanol and DME plant; “Mr. Arasa is no stranger to CG­CL hav­ing held the po­si­tion of Plant Gen­er­al Man­ag­er at the com­pa­ny since the start of con­struc­tion in 2015. Mr Arasa holds ad­vanced de­grees in Elec­tri­cal En­gi­neer­ing from the Si­mon Bo­li­var Uni­ver­si­ty, Cara­cas, and has com­plet­ed ex­ec­u­tive pro­grams in Fi­nance and Man­age­r­i­al Sci­ence. He has over forty (40) years of pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ence in plant and cor­po­rate man­age­ment with­in the en­er­gy in­dus­try and has held a range of tech­ni­cal, safe­ty, com­mer­cial, op­er­a­tional and lead­er­ship roles in sev­er­al mul­ti-na­tion­al com­pa­nies.”

Arasa will be re­spon­si­ble for stew­ard­ship of the joint ven­ture, t petro­chem­i­cal com­pa­ny, which com­pris­es both lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al share­hold­ers in­clud­ing the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny and Massy Group.

“I am thrilled for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to lead the CG­CL team at this most piv­otal time and look for­ward to work­ing with fel­low ex­ec­u­tives, man­age­ment, staff and all stake­hold­ers, to de­vel­op a ‘world-class’ methanol com­pa­ny,” said Arasa.

CG­CL at­tained Com­mer­cial Op­er­a­tions sta­tus on De­cem­ber 18th, 2020 and has been pro­duc­ing and ship­ping methanol since Sep­tem­ber 2020.