Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has met with a high-lev­el ex­ec­u­tive team from Shell at White­hall, a state­ment by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter said.

The state­ment said the meet­ing fol­lowed the sign­ing of agree­ments be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and Shell which will re­sult in eco­nom­ic im­prove­ment for the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

"Both par­ties re­main com­mit­ted to work­ing to­geth­er to se­cure the long-term fu­ture of the lo­cal gas in­dus­try," the state­ment added.

It said that Maarten Wet­se­laar, Shell’s Di­rec­tor In­te­grat­ed Gas and New En­er­gies led the vis­it­ing team which in­clud­ed De La Rey Ven­ter, Ex­ec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent of Shell’s In­te­grat­ed Gas Ven­ture busi­ness, Eu­gene Okpere Pres­i­dent and Coun­try Chair­man of Shell Trinidad and To­ba­go, Derek Hud­son, Con­sul­tant and An­ders Ek­vall, Busi­ness Op­por­tu­ni­ty Man­ag­er, Shell.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young al­so at­tend­ed the meet­ing.