CEO of At­lantic Nigel Dar­low said the com­pa­ny is suf­fer­ing bad­ly as a re­sult of dai­ly gas sup­ply short­ages and the Point Fortin liq­ue­fac­tion fa­cil­i­ty is now at "record low lev­els of util­i­sa­tion" and is fail­ing to de­liv­er on its LNG com­mit­ments,

"It is hurt­ing At­lantic and its hurt­ing the glob­al rep­u­ta­tion of Trinidad as a re­li­able pro­duc­er of LNG. We have built a glob­al rep­u­ta­tion as a safe and re­li­able pro­duc­er of LNG and we must con­tin­ue to pro­tect the rep­u­ta­tion of At­lantic and Trinidad's LNG on the world stage," he told guests at the re­cent At­lantic CEO's Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Awards at the Trinidad Hilton and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre.

At­lantic, one of the world's largest pro­duc­ers of LNG, is among en­er­gy and petro­chem­i­cal plants across the coun­try af­fect­ed by nat­ur­al gas cur­tail­ments. The on­go­ing tight sup­ply and de­mand sit­u­a­tion, which has been af­fect­ing the gas in­dus­try since 2010, stems from ex­ten­sive work to up­grade in­fra­struc­ture as well as fre­quent dis­rup­tions.

Dar­low said even with these sup­ply chal­lenges, At­lantic is de­liv­er­ing its high­est ever lev­els of per­for­mance in its 17 year op­er­at­ing his­to­ry in terms of safe­ty, as­set in­tegri­ty and re­li­a­bil­i­ty.

"At­lantic's per­for­mance is some­thing we are very proud of and we hope that the coun­try is proud of too," he said. "At­lantic has prob­a­bly the best safe­ty record of any LNG fa­cil­i­ty any­where in the world–hav­ing now sur­passed 32 mil­lion man hours with­out a sig­nif­i­cant in­jury equiv­a­lent to over 8 and a half years of safe op­er­a­tions while at the same time At­lantic con­tin­ues to de­liv­er its best ever plant per­for­mance–mea­sured in terms of re­li­a­bil­i­ty.

"So all these fac­tors to­geth­er with the fact that we have huge­ly tal­ent­ed peo­ple with deep LNG ex­pe­ri­ence means that we need not wor­ry about the abil­i­ty of At­lantic to con­tin­ue to be suc­cess­ful glob­al­ly."

The over­all win­ner of this year's At­lantic CEO's Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Awards was The Train 4 Im­prove­ment and Train 4 De­hy­dra­tor In­let Sep­a­ra­tor Project.

The project sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanced the per­for­mance of Train 4 as well as the over­all plant and in­volved the largest lift in At­lantic's op­er­at­ing his­to­ry to hoist and in­stall two LNG process ves­sels with a com­bined weight of 410 tons.

The project was al­so the win­ner in the Pro­duc­tion Cat­e­go­ry com­pet­ing against the win­ning projects from the Health, Safe­ty, Se­cu­ri­ty, En­vi­ron­ment (HSSE) and As­set In­tegri­ty, Cost Man­age­ment and Val­ue Cre­ation, Peo­ple and Cor­po­rate Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty cat­e­gories.

The CEO's Awards pan­el of judges, led by Ni­rad Tewarie, Pres­i­dent of Am­Cham Trinidad and To­ba­go sin­gled out four projects for ho­n­ourable men­tion for their cur­rent and po­ten­tial con­tri­bu­tion to com­mu­ni­ty and/or na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

The At­lantic LEND (Loan for En­ter­prise and Net­work De­vel­op­ment) Mi­cro-Fi­nanc­ing Agency was es­tab­lished in 2014 to ex­tend cred­it to bud­ding and mi­cro en­tre­pre­neurs in the south west­ern penin­su­la of Trinidad, help­ing to build eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion in the re­gion.

In 2015, the LEND Agency had dis­bursed 55 loans, fa­cil­i­tat­ing job cre­ation in such sec­tors as re­tail, agri­cul­ture, fish­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing.

The oth­er projects were the At­lantic/ECOSOL part­ner­ship, which mo­bi­lized a Point Fortin ser­vice provider com­pa­ny and fa­cil­i­tat­ed the in­stal­la­tion of a sus­tain­able haz­ardous waste dis­pos­al sys­tem for At­lantic; the At­lantic Ma­rine Trainee Pro­gramme, which trains young ma­rine pro­fes­sion­als for the lo­cal, re­gion­al and glob­al ma­rine in­dus­try; and the Non De­struc­tive Testers Lim­it­ed (NDTL) Com­pe­ten­cy As­sur­ance and Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gramme, a com­pe­tence as­sess­ment ini­tia­tive de­vel­oped by ser­vice provider com­pa­ny NDTL to en­hance the safe­ty per­for­mance of its em­ploy­ees.