Floods that wreaked havoc in Mayaro and Manzanilla over the past week did not damage Petrotrin's east Trinidad installations."We were very fortunate," the company's president Khalid Hassanali told the T&T Guardian. He said while the flooding led to "delays in terms of pumping oil out because of inability to get to the wells because of flooded roads" the disruption was "very minimal."
Hassanali said the delays did not cause any significant loss in revenue as pumping was only delayed for a few days and the company's infrastructure in the flood-affected areas is safe.Managing director of Tucker Energy Services, Roger Packer, said the company was affected by the flood waters.Tucker Energy has operations in Galeota with its main access through Mayaro.
"We have not been able to, of course, access from the Sangre Grande-type route which is where a lot of the trucking is really done on the Manzanilla stretch," he said.Packer, immediate past president of the Energy Chamber, said there are alternative routes through San Fernando, Princes Town and Rio Claro but "it is just a little more time consuming."He said the company did not incur any revenue loss.
"We just did not have access to equipment which we needed. It caused some delays, but not very much. We are not really worried. We have a couple options to access Galetoa. "It will take a while for them to repair the road, but we just had disruption for over a period of four to five days and we can work around it," he said.