Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has toured the Trinidad Off­shore Fab­ri­ca­tors Un­lim­it­ed’s (Tof­co) fab­ri­ca­tion yard in La Brea where the Men­to Plat­form is be­ing con­struct­ed.

A state­ment is­sued from bpTT yes­ter­day ex­plained that the Men­to de­vel­op­ment is a 50/50 joint ven­ture be­tween bpTT and EOG Re­sources Trinidad Ltd (EOG), with EOG as the op­er­a­tor.

David Camp­bell, pres­i­dent, bpTT who com­ment­ed on the tour which took place yes­ter­day said, “It was an ho­n­our to host the prime min­is­ter along with my col­leagues from EOG and Tof­co.

“Men­to demon­strates the im­por­tance of col­lab­o­ra­tion in un­lock­ing T&T’s en­er­gy re­sources. The part­ner­ship be­tween bpTT and EOG has grown from strength to strength since our first joint de­vel­op­ment, EMZ in 2011. Men­to will be the fourth joint ven­ture de­vel­op­ment be­tween bpTT and EOG and I look for­ward to work­ing to­geth­er as we ex­plore fu­ture op­por­tu­ni­ties.”

First gas is ex­pect­ed in 2025.

Dur­ing the tour Row­ley was ac­com­pa­nied by rep­re­sen­ta­tives from EOG, bpTT and Tof­co in­clud­ing George Vieira, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, EOG; An­ja-Is­abel Dotzen­rath, ex­ec­u­tive vice-pres­i­dent, bp, gas and low car­bon en­er­gy, David Camp­bell, pres­i­dent, bpTT and Javed Mo­hammed, gen­er­al man­ag­er, Tof­co.

Men­to will be a 12-slot, manned fa­cil­i­ty lo­cat­ed in acreage joint­ly li­censed by bpTT and EOG off Trinidad’s south-east coast.

The state­ment added that bpTT and EOG con­tin­ue to look for op­por­tu­ni­ties to de­vel­op re­sources in the Colum­bus Basin.