Trinidad and Tobago’s natural gas liquids (NGL) production increased for a second consecutive year in 2025, extending a recovery from the lowest level recorded in the Energy Institute’s 2015–2025 series.
The Statistical Review of World Energy 2026 puts national NGL production at about 18,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2025, up from 16,000 b/d in 2024 and 14,000 b/d in 2023. Production had stood at 30,000 b/d in 2015 before trending lower for much of the following decade. The increases in 2024 and 2025 are the first consecutive annual gains in the 11-year series.
Operating data from Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited (PPGPL) show a similar improvement. PPGPL reported NGL production of 17,318 b/d in 2025, 7.7 per cent above the 16,086 b/d recorded a year earlier. Propane production increased to 5,274 b/d, butane to 4,819 b/d and natural gasoline to 7,224 b/d.
The increase came despite lower volumes of natural gas reaching PPGPL’s Point Lisas facilities. Gas inlets declined by 7.7 per cent to 971 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd), while NGL production from gas processing fell 4.4 per cent to 9,845 b/d.
Higher NGL volumes from Atlantic helped offset that decline. TTNGL’s 2025 Annual Report said Atlantic’s contribution increased by 29.1 per cent to 7,472 b/d, from 5,787 b/d in 2024. The company also pointed to high plant availability as a factor behind the stronger overall production performance.
The drivers were different in 2024. TTNGL reported that gas volumes delivered to Point Lisas increased to 1,052 mmscfd from 1,008 mmscfd in 2023, while the NGL content of the gas stream improved by 9.6 per cent. PPGPL’s NGL production consequently rose by 16.7 per cent to 16,086 b/d.
The company attributed the improvement to the higher gas volumes, richer NGL content and improved plant uptime.
PPGPL operates Trinidad and Tobago’s only natural gas processing and NGL fractionation facility. At Point Lisas, liquids recovered from natural gas processing are combined with NGL volumes received from Atlantic and separated into propane, butane and natural gasoline. Its three fractionators have capacity to process up to 70,000 b/d of NGLs.
Propane and butane are sold as liquefied petroleum gas (cooking gas), with PPGPL supplying the domestic market as well as customers elsewhere in the Caribbean and internationally. Natural gasoline is also marketed outside Trinidad and Tobago.
The recent gains have not yet returned NGL production to the levels recorded a decade ago. The Energy Institute data show output in 2025 was still about 40 per cent below the 30,000 b/d recorded in 2015. The latest company figures, however, show that the recovery continued in 2025 even as gas availability at Point Lisas remained constrained, with stronger Atlantic volumes playing a larger role in total NGL supply.
