For­mer Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) pres­i­dent and Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT) re­cip­i­ent Mark Lo­quan has died.

De­tails of what led to his death have not yet been re­leased but Lo­quan was re­cov­er­ing from brain can­cer surgery.

In a post to his Face­book page yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young said he re­ceived the news that “a son of the soil of Trinidad and To­ba­go, a great pa­tri­ot, Mark Lo­quan, ORTT passed away to­day.”

He added, “I con­sid­ered Mark a friend. He was a man that I re­spect­ed and gen­uine­ly en­joyed work­ing with.

“Mark and I worked very close­ly to­geth­er on many, many, trans­ac­tions in the gas sec­tor from 2017 un­til he fell ill in Feb­ru­ary of 2024. We brain­stormed to­geth­er and we fought many bat­tles to­geth­er to se­cure a bet­ter fu­ture for T&T.

“He was a tal­ent­ed and hum­ble man. Some­one gen­uine­ly con­cerned about our coun­try and ded­i­cat­ed to do­ing his part to make it bet­ter. Whether it was com­pos­ing mu­sic for the pan, strate­gis­ing the fu­ture of our gas in­dus­try or ne­go­ti­at­ing for bet­ter terms and con­di­tions for Trinidad and To­ba­go Mark did it with a lev­el of pas­sion and ex­cel­lence.

“I will miss him. Mark rest in eter­nal peace my friend.”

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo paid trib­ute to Lo­quan.

"A true pa­tri­ot, his self­less ded­i­ca­tion to the de­vel­op­ment of our na­tion's en­er­gy sec­tor and cul­ture, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the realm of steel­pan, has left an in­deli­ble mark on our coun­try," said the Pres­i­dent said.

Her Ex­cel­len­cy added, "Rest in peace, Mark Lo­quan. Your work and spir­it will for­ev­er res­onate with­in the heart of our na­tion.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber in a state­ment al­so mourned his passed. It said, "His ex­per­tise and ded­i­ca­tion to the en­er­gy sec­tor were in­valu­able to both the com­pa­nies he led and the in­dus­try as a whole."

It added, "Mark had a deep and abid­ing com­mit­ment to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go."

In 2024 Lo­quan was ho­n­oured for his con­tri­bu­tions in the sphere of na­tion­al ser­vice (en­er­gy and steel­pan in­no­va­tion) as he tear­ful­ly ac­cept­ed the ORTT, the coun­try’s high­est award, at Pres­i­dent’s House, St Ann’s.

He was a chem­i­cal en­gi­neer by pro­fes­sion and served as the pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of T&T for eight years.