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Query over firearm licence snub'Not enough gas to warrant fifth LNG train'

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Trinidad & Tobago Express
Petroleumworldtt.com 10 14 09

Trinidad and Tobago does not have enough gas to build a fifth Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Train, although the country has not suffered a drop in the production of LNG.

In November last year Minister in the Ministry of Finance Mariano Browne told the Express that train five was still on the cards.

And Energy Minister Conrad Enill said the Government was waiting on the findings of a study on the economics of train five, to decide if it was feasible.

But it was during the World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week that local energy technocrats told the international media of the decision made on the project at Point Fortin.

Director of Policy in the Ministry of Energy David Small told the Reuters News Agency: "As of now, the gas is not all there for an expansion. Its not automatic that there will be a fifth train at Atlantic LNG."

The latest Ryder Scott gas audit done by the Houston-based firm earlier this year showed that proven gas reserves, at 15.37 trillion cubic feet (tcf), reached an all-time low last year.

LNG is shipped to several international markets in Europe and the eastern seaboard of the United States, while some natural gas is used for local electricity production and by many of the plants on the Pt Lisas Industrial Estate.

The Trinidad Generation Unlimited (TGU) power plant on the Union Industrial Estate at La Brea, being built to supply Alutrint's planned aluminium smelter, will be fuelled by natural gas.

Story by Camille Bethel from Trinidad & Tobago Express
-cbethel@trinidadexpress.com

Trinidad & Tobago Express
October 12Th 2009

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