At­lantic LNG has ap­point­ed Dr Ram­per­sad Moti­lal as chair­man, bring­ing one of the coun­try’s most ex­pe­ri­enced en­er­gy ex­ec­u­tives in­to the lead­er­ship of the liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas com­pa­ny at a time when the sec­tor is un­der pres­sure from de­clin­ing gas sup­ply and re­struc­tur­ing.

Moti­lal re­places Vin­cent Pereira, whose tenure as chair­man has come to an end as At­lantic con­tin­ues im­ple­ment­ing the first phase of its cor­po­rate re­struc­tur­ing.

Moti­lal brings more than four decades of ex­pe­ri­ence in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy in­dus­try, with a ca­reer span­ning petro­chem­i­cals, large-scale project de­vel­op­ment, en­gi­neer­ing man­age­ment and cor­po­rate strat­e­gy.

He pre­vi­ous­ly served for 16 years as chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed (MHTL) and its pre­de­ces­sor com­pa­nies, one of the largest methanol pro­duc­ers op­er­at­ing in the coun­try.

Dur­ing his time at MHTL, Moti­lal over­saw op­er­a­tions in a sec­tor that re­mains one of the ma­jor con­sumers of nat­ur­al gas from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s up­stream in­dus­try. The com­pa­ny op­er­ates sev­er­al methanol plants at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate and has long been a key part of the coun­try’s petro­chem­i­cal ex­port sec­tor.

His ap­point­ment comes as At­lantic LNG con­tin­ues ef­forts to repo­si­tion its op­er­a­tions amid struc­tur­al changes in the do­mes­tic gas in­dus­try and the wider glob­al LNG mar­ket.