Top of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries met with lead­ers of Caribbean Gas Chem­i­cal Lim­it­ed (CG­CL) on Thurs­day to dis­cuss op­er­a­tional up­dates, fu­ture col­lab­o­ra­tion, and com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment ini­tia­tives.

The meet­ing was led by Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, and Ernesto Ke­sar, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry. They were joined by se­nior min­istry of­fi­cials, in­clud­ing Per­ma­nent Sec­re­taries Pene­lope Brad­shaw-Niles and Karin­sa Tulsie.

Rep­re­sent­ing CG­CL were CEO Keio Ka­to, Chair­man Omote Masaa­ki, and oth­er top ex­ec­u­tives. The com­pa­ny re­port­ed a cur­rent pro­duc­tion and ex­port vol­ume of ap­prox­i­mate­ly four mil­lion met­ric tons of methanol. CG­CL plays a crit­i­cal role in the methanol sec­tor.

Dis­cus­sions al­so fo­cused on CG­CL’s Cor­po­rate So­cial Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty pro­grammes, which span ed­u­ca­tion, health, sports, cul­ture, and com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment. Min­is­ter Ke­sar com­mend­ed the com­pa­ny’s work with­in its sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties and en­cour­aged it to share its busi­ness ex­per­tise more broad­ly across the na­tion to pro­mote en­tre­pre­neur­ship.

Min­is­ter Mooni­lal reaf­firmed the gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to part­ner­ing with com­pa­nies like CG­CL to nav­i­gate the chal­lenges of the glob­al methanol mar­ket. He urged con­tin­ued co­op­er­a­tion to sup­port Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s vi­sion of reestab­lish­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go as the “en­er­gy cap­i­tal” of the re­gion.