In a strate­gic move to so­lid­i­fy the fu­ture of the na­tion’s nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries held a meet­ing with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from EOG Re­sources.

A re­lease from the min­istry ex­plained the dis­cus­sions, which took place at the min­istry’s In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex Head Of­fice, fo­cussed on the suc­cess­ful de­liv­ery of re­cent off­shore projects and the ac­cel­er­at­ed time­line for up­com­ing de­vel­op­ments crit­i­cal to the coun­try’s en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty.

The meet­ing was cen­tred on two pri­ma­ry pil­lars: the op­er­a­tional suc­cess of the Men­to Gas De­vel­op­ment and the for­ward mo­men­tum of the Co­conut Gas Project.

These projects rep­re­sent a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of the on­go­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween EOG Re­sources and bp T&T (bpTT).

Mooni­lal was briefed on the per­for­mance of the Men­to Gas De­vel­op­ment, which achieved its first gas in May 2025.

This project has since be­come a vi­tal con­trib­u­tor to the do­mes­tic sup­ply, meet­ing key pro­duc­tion tar­gets set dur­ing its ini­tial pro­pos­al stages.

Fur­ther­ing the dis­cus­sion on fu­ture ca­pac­i­ty, the EOG ex­ec­u­tive team led by George Vieira, vice-pres­i­dent and gen­er­al man­ag­er, Lisa Go­sine-Al­leyne, man­ag­ing coun­sel and De­nesh Ram­narace, ex­ter­nal af­fairs man­ag­er—pro­vid­ed a com­pre­hen­sive up­date on the Co­conut Gas Project.

This joint ven­ture is cur­rent­ly on track to come on­stream in 2027.

The project is viewed as a cor­ner­stone of the min­istry’s medi­um-term en­er­gy strat­e­gy, aimed at off­set­ting nat­ur­al de­cline in old­er fields and en­sur­ing a steady flow of mol­e­cules to the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, the re­lease said.

Mooni­lal reaf­firmed the Gov­ern­ment’s in­ten­tion to main­tain a strong and pro­duc­tive part­ner­ship with key in­dus­try stake­hold­ers and un­der­scored the im­por­tance of con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion with EOG Re­sources to sup­port the sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment of T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor for the mu­tu­al ben­e­fit of all par­ties.