Welcome Launched on June 1, 2002 and published bimonthly, ENERGY Caribbean is a subscription-based magazine and the first publication of its type ever devoted exclusively to the energy industry in the Caribbean. The annual ENERGY Caribbean Yearbook, a survey of developments in the year in energy gone by and outlook for the year ahead, is free to all subscribers, and is available for single purchase for non-subscribers.
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Issue No. 50 – August 2010
• PETROTRIN JOINT VENTURES Some setbacks, but still chasing increased output Trinidad
and Tobago's flagship energy company Petrotrin, in which the former
energy minister Conrad Enill (replaced since the May 24 general
election by Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan) had vested prime responsibility
for reversing the continuous fall in the country's oil production, has
been experiencing some difficulties in expanding its joint venture
programme, the chosen strategy for stemming the decline
• NEW BLOCK ROUND Clear policy needed to encourage take-up of gas blocks She
made no specific mention of her ministry's first auction of offshore
blocks since 2006, which she will preside over when the winners are
announced in mid-October (bidding closes on August 11). But Trinidad
and Tobago's new minister of energy and energy affairs (MEEA), Carolyn
Seepersad-Bachan, did declare in her first official statement on energy
policy (see page 10) that Trinidad and Tobago needed "to replace 1.5
trillion cubic feet a year for gas-based industries and LNG"
• THE FIRST FIFTY Trinidad is not alone with failing oil production The
most regrettable development in Trinidad and Tobago's energy sector
chronicled by ENERGY Caribbean during its first eight years - and 50
issues - has been the ineluctable decline in oil production and the
public sector income that goes with it
• CARICOM ENERGY POLICY
The finishing touches are still to come A common energy policy for the 15 nations of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) is not dead and buried, as many observers of the regional scene may understandably imagine
• JAMAICA EXPLORATION International companies line up to assess new blocks The
interest shown by international petroleum companies in the blocks which
Jamaica has out for auction under production sharing contracts until
March 1, 2011 (19 offshore and four onshore) has brought a smile to the
lips of Dr Raymond Wright, special projects manager of the Petroleum
Corporation of Jamaica, who is handling the offer
• SURINAME EXPLORATION Staatsolie goes offshore on its own Suriname's 30-year-old energy company, Staatsolie, is about to leap from the onshore, where all its oil production of 16,000 b/d currently comes from and to which it has traditionally confined itself, to the offshore
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