Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has com­plet­ed ma­jor con­struc­tion works and be­gun tran­si­tion­ing to up­grad­ed pipeline in­fra­struc­ture as part of an on­go­ing As­set In­tegri­ty Man­age­ment Pro­gramme aimed at im­prov­ing op­er­a­tional safe­ty, en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion and sys­tem re­li­a­bil­i­ty.

It was con­firmed via a press re­lease by Her­itage that the ini­tia­tive in­volved the re­place­ment of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10,000 feet of crude oil pipeline in­fra­struc­ture in Tarou­ba.

The works in­clud­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6,000 feet of con­ven­tion­al­ly trenched pipeline in­stal­la­tion and 4,000 feet of Hor­i­zon­tal Di­rec­tion­al Drilling (HDD) pipeline in­stal­la­tion be­neath crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture cor­ri­dors.

Her­itage said the HDD method al­lowed pipeline cross­ings be­neath ma­jor road­ways and sen­si­tive in­fra­struc­ture while min­imis­ing dis­rup­tion to the pub­lic and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties, in­clud­ing ar­eas near the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way and Tarou­ba Link Road.

The project be­gan on Sep­tem­ber 19, 2025, and was com­mis­sioned on May 24, 2026, fol­low­ing sev­er­al months of en­gi­neer­ing, con­struc­tion, safe­ty and op­er­a­tional ac­tiv­i­ties.

At peak ex­e­cu­tion, more than 300 work­ers, in­clud­ing con­trac­tors, en­gi­neers, op­er­a­tors, health, safe­ty and en­vi­ron­men­tal per­son­nel, and sup­port teams, worked on the ini­tia­tive.

Her­itage said the project forms part of its con­tin­ued in­vest­ment in re­plac­ing age­ing in­fra­struc­ture to re­duce op­er­a­tional risks, im­prove sys­tem re­li­a­bil­i­ty and strength­en en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion mea­sures around crit­i­cal pipeline as­sets.

Act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Ker­ry Ram­per­sad said the up­grades rep­re­sent a ma­jor step in strength­en­ing the com­pa­ny’s op­er­a­tions and long-term sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

“The mod­erni­sa­tion of our pipeline in­fra­struc­ture re­flects Her­itage’s com­mit­ment to safer, more re­li­able and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly re­spon­si­ble op­er­a­tions. These up­grades are crit­i­cal to strength­en­ing op­er­a­tional re­silience while sup­port­ing the long-term sus­tain­abil­i­ty of our op­er­a­tions,” Ram­per­sad said.

Her­itage said it main­tained en­gage­ment with reg­u­la­to­ry agen­cies, neigh­bour­ing com­mu­ni­ties, ed­u­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions and oth­er stake­hold­ers through­out the ex­e­cu­tion phase to en­sure ac­tiv­i­ties were car­ried out safe­ly and with min­i­mal dis­rup­tion.

The com­pa­ny al­so recog­nised em­ploy­ees, con­trac­tors and op­er­a­tional teams in­volved in com­plet­ing the project.

Her­itage said it will con­tin­ue work­ing with stake­hold­ers as part of its on­go­ing pipeline in­tegri­ty and in­fra­struc­ture mod­erni­sa­tion pro­gramme.

The com­pa­ny op­er­ates an ex­ten­sive oil and gas in­fra­struc­ture net­work across Trinidad and To­ba­go and said the lat­est ini­tia­tive forms part of broad­er ef­forts to mod­ernise crit­i­cal as­sets and im­prove en­vi­ron­men­tal safe­guards.