Cur­tis Mo­hammed, the man dubbed the “leader in the en­er­gy tran­si­tion” in this coun­try, will be bid­ding farewell to NGC CNG Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed on 21st April ahead of his pend­ing leave and re­tire­ment in Oc­to­ber 2022.  

An of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued by the com­pa­ny ac­knowl­edges the im­por­tant role played by the out­go­ing pres­i­dent in en­sur­ing that the com­pa­ny met and ex­ceed­ed its man­dat­ed tar­gets, to the ex­tent where there are now sev­er­al state-of-the-art CNG fu­elling sta­tions across the coun­try, and CNG re­mains the fu­el of choice for long haul dri­vers.

“The Board and Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment team at the NGC ex­tends con­grat­u­la­tions to Mo­hammed on his re­tire­ment and thanks him for his ster­ling ser­vice to the or­ga­ni­za­tion,” the com­pa­ny’s state­ment said.

A vet­er­an of the Trinidad and To­ba­go en­er­gy sec­tor, in ad­di­tion to head­ing up NGC CNG as its Pres­i­dent, Cur­tis Mo­hammed al­so holds the port­fo­lio of VP Sus­tain­able En­er­gy at the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Com­pa­ny.

He is cred­it­ed with spear­head­ing NGC CNG’s CNG Di­vi­sion be­tween 2013 and 2022, de­liv­er­ing some TTD$1.17 bil­lion of busi­ness and ben­e­fits to con­sumers and oth­er stake­hold­ers.

“At the time of Mo­hammed as­sum­ing the lead­er­ship of the com­pa­ny, NGC CNG had a man­date to es­tab­lish 22 ser­vice sta­tions and con­vert ap­prox­i­mate­ly 17,500 ve­hi­cles. Mo­hammed, who has had a ster­ling track record for de­liv­er­ing on plan, met all the tar­gets, and con­tin­ued to grow user­ship, es­pe­cial­ly among long haul dri­vers, through ex­pan­sion and up­grade of sta­tions,” the state­ment not­ed.

The NGC CNG Com­pa­ny points out fur­ther:

“To­day, CNG re­mains the on­ly tech­nol­o­gy that can be used with In­ter­nal Com­bus­tion En­gine (ICE) ve­hi­cles to re­duce both costs and car­bon emis­sions. CNG con­vert­ed ve­hi­cles burn 30% less car­bon, and costs 80% less to run.”

Pri­or to his role as Pres­i­dent of NGC CNG, Cur­tis Mo­hammed served as Vice Pres­i­dent for Gas Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion at The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny, where he de­vel­oped and head­ed the na­tion­al CNG ini­tia­tive.

NGC Group Chair­man, Con­rad Enill, un­der­scored the crit­i­cal role Cur­tis Mo­hammed played in mak­ing that ini­tia­tive work.

“Cur­tis Mo­hammed has been in­stru­men­tal in NGC CNG meet­ing the ag­gres­sive tar­gets it set it­self just a few years ago,” Chair­man Enill ob­served.

“Fo­cused mar­ket­ing and cre­ative en­gage­ment of the dri­ving pub­lic have been at the cen­tre of his thrust to re­duce car­bon emis­sions and the re­liance on gas vol­umes. Un­der his lead­er­ship, we now have 17 re­fu­elling sta­tions—some in var­i­ous stages of up­grade to new state-of-the art sys­tems,” he said.

Cur­tis Mo­hammed holds a B. Sc. de­gree in Chem­i­cal En­gi­neer­ing at UWI and an M.Sc. in En­gi­neer­ing Man­age­ment. Be­fore join­ing NGC, Mr. Mo­hammed worked across the Oil and Gas sec­tor in process and project en­gi­neer­ing; im­ple­ment­ed man­u­fac­tur­ing ini­tia­tives in the Spir­its In­dus­try and the Re­new­ables In­dus­try. He is a mem­ber of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Pro­fes­sion­al En­gi­neers of Trinidad and To­ba­go and of the Amer­i­can In­sti­tute of Chem­i­cal En­gi­neers.