Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd, Erik Kesku­la, says the com­pa­ny is cog­nisant it has "so much more to ac­com­plish in a big­ger, bold­er, and faster way."

"We must get the hy­dro­car­bons out of the ground safe­ly and quick­ly. We must mon­e­tise the hy­dro­car­bons to fa­cil­i­tate the fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go. And we must be a re­spon­si­ble cor­po­rate cit­i­zen and a source of pride for Trinidad and To­ba­go," he said.

He made the re­marks while speak­ing at the Her­itage 2024 In­spire awards cer­e­mo­ny which took place at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day night.

Kesku­la al­so de­scribed 2024 as one of "suc­cess and re­cal­i­bra­tion" for the com­pa­ny.

"We have bro­ken new ground, raised our stan­dards, and strength­ened our po­si­tion as a leader in the en­er­gy sec­tor," he said.

De­spite these suc­cess­es Kesku­la ad­mit­ted that in this dy­nam­ic in­dus­try, Her­itage al­so faced chal­lenges.

"De­spite this, we stepped up, show­ing re­silience and com­mit­ment - demon­strat­ing that work­ing to­geth­er as one team, we can achieve great things," he added.

Kesku­la al­so reaf­firmed the com­pa­ny's com­mit­ment to the in­spire val­ues, which he said sets it apart from oth­er state com­pa­nies.

"They are the foun­da­tion of our or­gan­i­sa­tion’s cul­ture and pro­pel us to­wards suc­cess. Every day, our em­ploy­ees as­pire to up­hold­ing their in­tegri­ty, be­ing nim­ble on the job, pri­ori­tis­ing safe­ty, con­stant­ly mon­i­tor­ing and eval­u­at­ing per­for­mance, im­ple­ment­ing in­no­v­a­tive so­lu­tions, all while re­spect­ing one an­oth­er and striv­ing for ex­cel­lence. team Her­itage, you have moved our or­gan­i­sa­tion for­ward in re­mark­able ways. What we do is crit­i­cal­ly im­por­tant and has an im­mense im­pact on the na­tion’s present as well as its fu­ture," he said.

For the year, the com­pa­ny recog­nised 51 team projects which trans­lat­ed to 326 nom­i­nees strad­dling the en­tire or­gan­i­sa­tion.

This, Kesku­la added, spoke vol­umes about the in­te­grat­ed, in­ter­con­nect­ed and crit­i­cal val­ue of team­work and cross-func­tion­al teams at Her­itage.