Trinidad and To­ba­go and Cana­da have re­port­ed­ly opened the door to ex­plore the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fur­ther col­lab­o­ra­tion and co­op­er­a­tion in the en­er­gy sec­tor, in­clud­ing this coun­try tap­ping in­to Cana­da’s ex­per­tise with hy­dro­gen as a pow­er source.

An of­fi­cial state­ment from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries hints at the pos­si­bil­i­ties, fol­low­ing a meet­ing this week be­tween En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young MP and Cana­da’s High Com­mis­sion­er His Ex­cel­len­cy Ku­mar Gup­ta.

The Min­istry notes that on the Au­gust 23rd, the Min­is­ter Young and HE Gup­ta met to dis­cuss bi­lat­er­al arrange­ments be­tween both coun­tries and en­er­gy re­lat­ed mat­ters.

Dur­ing these dis­cus­sions, Min­is­ter Young ex­pressed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s will­ing­ness and com­mit­ment to work­ing with Cana­da to de­vel­op the en­er­gy sec­tor, and re­it­er­at­ed Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to strength­en the re­la­tion­ship with Cana­da in the ar­eas of tech­nol­o­gy trans­fer and en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion.

Both men al­so talked about the in­volve­ment of Cana­di­an com­pa­nies—such as Touch­stone—in oil and gas, but al­so fo­cused on the op­por­tu­ni­ty for col­lab­o­ra­tion in the en­er­gy tran­si­tion.

The ar­eas iden­ti­fied of mu­tu­al in­ter­est were waste to en­er­gy, car­bon cap­ture and hy­dro­gen, the Min­istry’s re­lease not­ed.

High Com­mis­sion­er Gup­ta al­so out­lined Cana­da’s long his­to­ry in the de­vel­op­ment and use of hy­dro­gen and not­ed the po­ten­tial in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor for its de­vel­op­ment.