Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art Young, to­day joined state-owned Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (Na­tion­al En­er­gy) to of­fi­cial­ly wel­come Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first low ex­haust tug to the Com­pa­ny’s ves­sel fleet.  

A Ves­sel Com­mis­sion­ing Cer­e­mo­ny was held at the Hy­att Re­gency and was at­tend­ed by stake­hold­ers from the mar­itime and en­er­gy sec­tors.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Min­istry, the new 60-ton bol­lard-pull tug, named Na­tion­al En­er­gy Re­silience, is IMO Tier III-cer­ti­fied with tech­nolo­gies that re­duce its ni­trous ox­ides emis­sions by 80% – mak­ing it the “clean­est” tug op­er­at­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and at this time, the 2nd in the re­gion. 

Na­tion­al En­er­gy Chair­man, Dr Joseph Khan, stat­ed that the “Na­tion­al En­er­gy Re­silience is dif­fer­ent from any oth­er tug in our fleet. It is In­ter­na­tion­al Ma­rine Or­gan­i­sa­tion (IMO) Tier III-cer­ti­fied. This stan­dard was de­signed to im­prove air qual­i­ty and pro­tect pub­lic health by con­trol­ling emis­sions from ships and ves­sels. We are there­fore de­light­ed to say that the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Re­silience us­es tech­nolo­gies that re­duces its ni­trous ox­ides emis­sions by 80%. This is a sig­nif­i­cant re­duc­tion in emis­sions of a green­house gas that is 300 times more po­tent than car­bon diox­ide.”  

In de­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress, Min­is­ter Young stat­ed: “While I reg­u­lar­ly, and open­ly, re­peat the im­por­tance of nat­ur­al gas in the en­er­gy tran­si­tion, I want to re­as­sure the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go, that this Gov­ern­ment, is al­so ful­ly com­mit­ted to cli­mate ac­tion through the re­duc­tion of our coun­try’s green­house gas emis­sions.”  

The Na­tion­al En­er­gy Re­silience has se­cured all doc­u­men­ta­tion re­quired to op­er­ate and is now avail­able for im­me­di­ate hire.