Venezuela’s energy minister Pedro Tellechea and his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart Stuart Richard Young during a signing ceremony in Caracas in front of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. (Source: Venezuela Communications and Information Ministry)
The governments of Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago signed an inter-institutional agreement related to joint energy projects and bilateral trade between the countries, according to a Sept. 20 press release.
The agreement also strengthens cooperation around security and energy sovereignty in the Caribbean and allows for the installation of pipelines to produce Venezuela’s offshore gas, Venezuela’s Communications and Information Ministry said.
“The signing today and work related to the Dragon gas field project in Venezuelan waters [will allow] us to start producing gas together,” President Nicolas Maduro said in the release.
The agreement could eventually see Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves and seventh largest gas reserves, and Trinidad, home to the four-train 14.8 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) Atlantic liquefaction plant, work together to produce and commercialize Venezuela’s strained gas reserves.
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The agreement, if it moves forward, bodes well for Trinidad’s Atlantic LNG, plant which is suffering from a shortage of gas to produce LNG, ammonia and methanol. Atlantic LNG continues to operate with just three trains due to the gas shortage.
“We’re ready to move forward with all the countries that want to invest, with all the companies around the world that want to invest,” Maduro said. “Petrocaribe is coming back stronger now… step by step, little by little.”
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