En­er­gy Min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine yes­ter­day said that T&T's mil­i­tary was work­ing on a re­port of Wednes­day's in­cur­sion in­to T&T wa­ters by a ship be­long­ing to the Venezue­lan Coast Guard. State-owned Petrotrin has said that of­ficiers on the ship ra­dioed per­son­nel work­ing on Rig 110 in Petrotrin's off­shore Sol­da­do Field, and claimed that the rig was op­er­at­ing in Venezue­lan wa­ters.

Petrotrin of­fi­cials pro­vid­ed the nec­es­sary ge­o­graph­i­cal co­or­di­nates which con­firmed that the rig was in­deed op­er­at­ing law­ful­ly well with­in the mar­itime bor­ders of Trinidad and To­ba­go. The Venezue­lan ves­sel there­fore de­part­ed with­out fur­ther de­lay. Speak­ing from Wash­ing­ton DC, Ram­nar­ine said: "Op­er­a­tions with re­spect to Well Ser­vices Rig 110 con­tin­ue as usu­al. The Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs is tak­ing the lead on this mat­ter and is cur­rent­ly await­ing a re­port from the Chief of De­fence Staff."

Ram­nar­ine spoke at an Amer­i­can Gas As­so­ci­a­tion Nat­ur­al Gas Round­table break­fast on Wednes­day, ac­cord­ing to a re­port in the Oil and Gas Jour­nal. Pres­i­dent Petrotrin Khalid Has­sanali ad­mit­ted that the in­ci­dent had caused con­cern among the work­ers on the oil rig.

"It stopped (work) for a short while when every­one was cu­ri­ous as to what was go­ing on-min­i­mum dis­rup­tions, it caused a lit­tle bit of con­cern that's all," Has­sanali said. Speak­ing in an in­ter­view he con­firmed that the mat­ter was be­ing han­dled by the Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs. He could say for sure whether an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was lauched in­to the sit­u­a­tion. The rig is lo­cat­ed in the South West Sol­da­do field with­in the Trin­mar acreage.