En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has wel­comed the suc­cess­ful fab­ri­ca­tion and load­out of the Co­conut jack­et, a de­vel­op­ment he ex­pects to sup­port nat­ur­al gas sup­plies to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s petro­chem­i­cal and down­stream in­dus­tries.

In a so­cial me­dia post yes­ter­day, Mooni­lal con­grat­u­lat­ed TOF­CO, EOG Re­sources and BP on the mile­stone, which comes days af­ter the load­out and in­stal­la­tion of the Man­a­tee jack­et.

The Co­conut project is be­ing pur­sued by EOG and BP, with first gas ex­pect­ed in 2027. Mooni­lal linked the project to ef­forts to strength­en gas sup­plies for the coun­try’s en­er­gy-based in­dus­tries.

The de­vel­op­ment fol­lows suc­cess­ful ne­go­ti­a­tions by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) to se­cure 100 per cent of EOG’s Co­conut gas, which is ex­pect­ed to con­tribute to the coun­try’s nat­ur­al gas sup­ply.

Mooni­lal al­so cred­it­ed the lo­cal teams in­volved in the project, recog­nis­ing their tech­ni­cal ex­per­tise and work in bring­ing the fab­ri­ca­tion and load­out to com­ple­tion.