Fol­low­ing the re­cent death of its ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Bruce Ding­wall, San Fer­nan­do-based Trin­i­ty Ex­plo­ration & Pro­duc­tion yes­ter­day an­nounced sev­er­al changes to the helm of its or­gan­i­sa­tion in­clud­ing the ap­point­ment of two ex­ist­ing board mem­bers to the posts of non-ex­ec­u­tive chair­man and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer.

Trin­i­ty said the moves were aimed at strength­en­ing its team.

Nick Clay­ton has been named Trin­i­ty’s non-ex­ec­u­tive chair­man while Je­re­my Bridglals­ingh has been named chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer.

Clay­ton has over 37 years of ex­pe­ri­ence with­in the glob­al oil and gas sec­tor both as a prac­ti­tion­er and di­rec­tor, pro­vid­ing strate­gic and cor­po­rate fi­nance ad­vice.

Bridglals­ingh, joined Trin­i­ty in 2012 and as­sumed the role of Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer in Jan­u­ary 2016 and then man­ag­ing di­rec­tor in 2019.

Apart from those two ap­point­ments Trin­i­ty al­so an­nounced the re­cent ap­point­ment of the for­mer vice pres­i­dent and coun­try chair­man of Shell T&T Derek Hud­son as an in­de­pen­dent non-ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor to the board.

Trin­i­ty said Hud­son’s ap­point­ment “will def­i­nite­ly add im­mense val­ue to the al­ready ro­bust lead­er­ship” at the or­gan­i­sa­tion

Hud­son is a ge­ol­o­gist by pro­fes­sion, hav­ing over 30 years se­nior lev­el ex­pe­ri­ence in the oil and gas in­dus­try, op­er­at­ing glob­al­ly with mul­ti-na­tion­al or­gan­i­sa­tions and state en­ter­pris­es.

He is cur­rent­ly non-ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of Sco­tia­bank T&T.

“The ap­point­ments will en­able the com­pa­ny to fur­ther de­liv­er on its mul­ti­ple growth projects fol­low­ing the re­cent pass­ing of Bruce Ding­wall CBE, ex­ec­u­tive chair­man,” it stat­ed.

Ding­wall an en­er­gy vet­er­an passed away in Au­gust at the age of 61.

Je­re­my Bridglals­ingh com­ment­ed: “The Trin­i­ty team is pas­sion­ate about what we do and de­ter­mined to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the lo­cal econ­o­my as our ac­tiv­i­ties grow. We are ex­treme­ly pleased that Derek Hud­son has joined the Board of Trin­i­ty to help us de­liv­er the best re­sults for our fel­low cit­i­zens. Derek is a well-known and high­ly re­spect­ed fig­ure both lo­cal­ly and in the in­ter­na­tion­al oil and gas in­dus­try. His out­stand­ing track record across a range of com­plex ex­plo­ration, busi­ness de­vel­op­ment, fi­nan­cial and op­er­a­tional ac­tiv­i­ties in both off­shore and on­shore en­vi­ron­ments brings sig­nif­i­cant com­ple­men­tary skills to the Board and will aug­ment our tech­ni­cal and in­dus­try-spe­cif­ic com­mer­cial ex­per­tise.

“In ad­di­tion to our tra­di­tion­al pro­duc­ing busi­ness, we con­tin­ue to ex­plore new en­er­gy op­tions, de­car­bon­i­sa­tion and re­duc­ing pol­lu­tion lev­els with lo­cal part­ners and are fo­cused on giv­ing back to the com­mu­ni­ty. We look for­ward to up­dat­ing you on ac­tiv­i­ties in due course.”

Hud­son said:”I am de­light­ed to have joined the Board of Trin­i­ty and look for­ward to as­sist­ing the Group as it builds on the lega­cy of Bruce Ding­wall. Bruce and I were pro­fes­sion­al col­leagues for many years and it is an ho­n­our to be lend­ing my sup­port to the Board in tak­ing the Com­pa­ny for­ward to en­sure that Bruce’s as­pi­ra­tions for Trin­i­ty to be a strong and bal­anced en­er­gy busi­ness will be met.”