En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young met with bpTT ex­ec­u­tives and a dis­cus­sion sur­round­ed in­creased nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion in T&T and the com­pa­ny’s con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to this coun­try.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, the Min­istry of En­er­gy said the meet­ing took place at the min­istry’s head of­fice, at the In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex, Port of Spain.

The bp ex­ec­u­tives present at the meet­ing were, Gor­don Bir­rell, ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent (EVP) of pro­duc­tion and op­er­a­tions; David Camp­bell, pres­i­dent of bpTT; and Giselle Thomp­son, vice pres­i­dent of cor­po­rate op­er­a­tions bpTT.

Dur­ing the cour­tesy meet­ing, Bir­rell said that he led a team from bp, com­pris­ing geo­sci­en­tists and oth­er ex­perts to look at the Colum­bus Basin and T&T’s deep­wa­ter acreage, for op­por­tu­ni­ties to in­crease nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion in T&T.

Bir­rell is tasked with man­ag­ing the Lon­don-head­quar­tered en­er­gy com­pa­ny’s hy­dro­car­bon pro­duc­tion and ex­plo­ration; and its gas pro­duc­tion as­sets.

Bir­rell con­grat­u­lat­ed the min­is­ter on the suc­cess­ful re­struc­tur­ing of At­lantic LNG, as the re­struc­tur­ing opened new op­por­tu­ni­ties for bpTT to in­vest in and col­lab­o­rate with T&T, in the pur­suit of nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion.

The min­istry stat­ed that Bir­rell con­firmed bp’s com­mit­ment to this coun­try.

Young re­it­er­at­ed to the bp ex­ec­u­tives the im­por­tance of the part­ner­ship be­tween bp and T&T and his sat­is­fac­tion with the con­tin­ued open chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the com­pa­ny and the gov­ern­ment.

It said the min­is­ter then reaf­firmed the gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to the re­la­tion­ship with bp as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues the man­age­ment of projects that will bring nat­ur­al gas dis­cov­er­ies and pro­duc­tion to mar­ket, for the mu­tu­al ben­e­fit of both bp and the cit­i­zens.