Top ex­ec­u­tives at BP have re­it­er­at­ed their com­mit­ment to work­ing with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Gov­ern­ment on the fu­ture de­vel­op­ment of this coun­try’s en­er­gy sec­tor.

The as­sur­ances were giv­en dur­ing a meet­ing to­day (Thurs­day 8 Sep­tem­ber 2022), be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and BP’s Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Bernard Looney, at the en­er­gy com­pa­ny’s glob­al head­quar­ters at St. James's Square in Lon­don.

“Mr Looney re­it­er­at­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains an im­por­tant as­set in BP’s glob­al op­er­a­tions and gave the as­sur­ance that the BP team would con­tin­ue work­ing as­sid­u­ous­ly with the Gov­ern­ment on de­liv­er­ing a num­ber of ini­tia­tives that would ben­e­fit both Trinidad and To­ba­go and BP,” an of­fi­cial re­lease from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter re­ports.

The PM’s Of­fice re­ports:

“BP pro­vid­ed an up­date to Dr Row­ley on their plans for fu­ture gas pro­duc­tion in­clud­ing the sanc­tion­ing of new projects. The dis­cus­sions al­so touched on the progress of the At­lantic LNG re­struc­tur­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions which is ex­pect­ed to be fi­nal­ized soon.”

“Both par­ties re­it­er­at­ed their com­mit­ment to work­ing to­geth­er to en­sure the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor,” the state­ment said.

“The Prime Min­is­ter used the op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­in­force with BP that fu­ture fab­ri­ca­tion of plat­forms and oth­er in­fra­struc­ture should be done in Trinidad and To­ba­go,” it added. 

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, Stu­art Young MP—who al­so car­ries the port­fo­lio of Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter—was present with the Prime Min­is­ter at the meet­ing.

In ad­di­tion to CEO Bernard Looney, BP was rep­re­sent­ed at the talks by An­ja-Is­abel Dotzen­rath, Ex­ec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent Gas and Low Car­bon En­er­gy; David Camp­bell, Pres­i­dent, BP Trinidad and To­ba­go (in­com­ing); and Giselle Thomp­son, Vice Pres­i­dent Cor­po­rate Op­er­a­tions, Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley will trav­el to The Hague, Nether­lands lat­er to­day, where he is ex­pect­ed to meet with ex­ec­u­tives from Shell on Fri­day morn­ing.