Min­is­ter in the En­er­gy Min­is­ter Ernesto Ke­sar met with of­fi­cials from El Do­ra­do Off­shore and Ramps Lo­gis­tics in Para­mari­bo, Suri­name dur­ing Caribbean En­er­gy Week 2026.

The dis­cus­sion was host­ed by RAMPS Lo­gis­tics CEO Shaun Ram­per­sad at the com­pa­ny's Suri­name of­fice and fea­tured Sarona Sama­roo, VP El Do­ra­do Off­shore, Mike Re­so­mar­dono, Ramps Lo­gis­tics Suri­name coun­try man­ag­er and mem­bers of the com­pa­nies’ Suri­name team.

Min­is­ter Ke­sar was ac­com­pa­nied by a se­nior en­gi­neer from the Min­istry. The meet­ing al­so fea­tured oth­er Trinidad and To­ba­go ser­vice providers and pro­fes­sion­als ac­tive in Suri­name’s oil and gas sec­tor, in­clud­ing Weath­er­ford.

Ac­cord­ing to re­lease from Ramps on Tues­day, the meet­ing re­flect­ed con­tin­ued sup­port for the growth and de­vel­op­ment of Suri­name’s en­er­gy in­dus­try and re­in­forced the val­ue of prac­ti­cal en­gage­ment, re­gion­al pres­ence, and di­rect di­a­logue among stake­hold­ers op­er­at­ing in the sec­tor.

It was ex­plained that the dis­cus­sions were al­so aligned with the wider na­tion­al di­rec­tion be­ing ad­vanced un­der Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, as Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to strength­en its po­si­tion as a se­ri­ous, out­ward-fac­ing play­er in the re­gion­al en­er­gy land­scape.

Sarona Sama­roo, vice pres­i­dent of El Do­ra­do Off­shore, said “The Caribbean is at an im­por­tant stage of de­vel­op­ment, and progress will de­pend on how de­lib­er­ate­ly we align ex­pe­ri­ence, ca­pa­bil­i­ty, and op­por­tu­ni­ty to sup­port sus­tain­able growth across the re­gion.”

Held dur­ing one of the re­gion’s most im­por­tant en­er­gy gath­er­ings, the meet­ing re­in­forced a clear point: re­gion­al progress de­pends not on­ly on op­por­tu­ni­ty, but on sus­tained en­gage­ment, cred­i­ble part­ner­ships, and the abil­i­ty to con­tribute in prac­ti­cal ways.

Caribbean En­er­gy Week which be­gan on Mon­day, March 30, is set to con­clude to­day April 1.