Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal met with with Shell Trinidad and To­ba­go ex­ec­u­tives on Thurs­day to dis­cuss the re­vival of the Drag­on Gas project.

At the meet­ing were M Adam Low­mass, Ex­ec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent and Coun­try Chair at Shell Trinidad and To­ba­go and Ms Clarke-Sal­loum, Head of Cor­po­rate Re­la­tions.

“I thanked Shell Trinidad and To­ba­go for their on­go­ing sup­port to the growth of the en­er­gy sec­tor in the re­gion and Trinidad and To­ba­go in par­tic­u­lar,” the Prime Min­is­ter said.

Ac­cord­ing to Per­sad-Bisses­sar, the Shell ex­ec­u­tives ex­pressed their ap­pre­ci­a­tion for Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to the Drag­on gas project. “They were elat­ed with the news of the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment’s ap­proval at the high­est lev­el for our new pro­pos­als on this key project,” she said.

The Prime Min­is­ter re­called that dur­ing a his­toric meet­ing in Wash­ing­ton, DC, on Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025, US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio had ap­proved the grant of an OFAC li­cence for the project. “This came af­ter sus­tained and in­ten­sive work by my gov­ern­ment over the past four months,” she said.

Re­flect­ing on the project’s turn­around, she added, “This project, which was ‘dead’ be­fore April 28, 2025, was re­sus­ci­tat­ed un­der my tenure in about four short months.”

The meet­ing al­so cov­ered next steps for ad­vanc­ing the project. “We took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to en­gage in fur­ther dis­cus­sions on the fu­ture in­vest­ment pro­file of Shell and its con­tri­bu­tion to our en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty,” the Prime Min­is­ter said.