Se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Pro­man to dis­cuss de­vel­op­ments in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor on Wednes­day.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Roodal Mooni­lal and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Ernesto Ke­sar held talks with Pro­man Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Anand Rag­bir, Deputy Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Giselle Thomp­son, and Di­rec­tor of Mar­ket­ing and Lo­gis­tics Hana Sukhu-Ma­haraj.

Mooni­lal and Ke­sar wel­comed the Pro­man ex­ec­u­tives and ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Rag­bir and Thomp­son on their re­cent ap­point­ments. They reaf­firmed the gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing the en­er­gy sec­tor, de­scrib­ing it as cen­tral to the na­tion­al econ­o­my. The min­is­ters al­so en­cour­aged Pro­man to ex­pand its par­tic­i­pa­tion in cur­rent and fu­ture en­er­gy ini­tia­tives and to con­sid­er fur­ther in­vest­ments.

Pro­man out­lined the scope of its op­er­a­tions, high­light­ing own­er­ship and man­age­ment of 14 petro­chem­i­cal plants in the coun­try. The com­pa­ny re­it­er­at­ed its long-term in­vest­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go and its fo­cus on clean en­er­gy tech­nol­o­gy to sup­port en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

Ex­ec­u­tives from Pro­man al­so em­pha­sised op­por­tu­ni­ties in methanol pro­duc­tion. They not­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go ranks as the world’s sec­ond-largest ex­porter and re­mains a sig­nif­i­cant glob­al sup­pli­er. The com­pa­ny pre­sent­ed up­dates on its ex­port ac­tiv­i­ties re­lat­ed to am­mo­nia, urea am­mo­ni­um ni­trate, and melamine, point­ing to the coun­try’s role in the glob­al petro­chem­i­cal sup­ply chain.

The gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion for Pro­man’s con­tin­ued en­gage­ment and reaf­firmed their will­ing­ness to col­lab­o­rate on projects that would strength­en the en­er­gy sec­tor. Both sides in­di­cat­ed in­ter­est in main­tain­ing a pro­duc­tive re­la­tion­ship to sup­port na­tion­al eco­nom­ic goals.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries is­sued the re­lease fol­low­ing the meet­ing, stat­ing that such en­gage­ments sup­port long-term sec­tor de­vel­op­ment and for­eign in­vest­ment. The gov­ern­ment re­it­er­at­ed its in­ten­tion to work close­ly with pri­vate en­er­gy part­ners like Pro­man to en­sure the sus­tain­abil­i­ty and com­pet­i­tive­ness of the en­er­gy in­dus­try in Trinidad and To­ba­go.