The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad & To­ba­go has joined the na­tion in mourn­ing the pass­ing of Mark Lo­quan, a past mem­ber of the En­er­gy Cham­ber's Board, re­fer­ring to him as "a dis­tin­guished leader of the na­tion­al and glob­al en­er­gy in­dus­try."

The Cham­ber added that its thoughts and con­do­lences are with his fam­i­ly, friends, and col­leagues at this dif­fi­cult time.

The re­lease said Lo­quan's pass­ing was a tremen­dous loss to the in­dus­try, the coun­try, and the many lives he touched through­out his ca­reer in both en­er­gy and cul­ture. "He was a good man who did great things."

Lo­quan was al­so a for­mer Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) pres­i­dent and a re­cip­i­ent of the na­tion's high­est award, the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT).

Lo­quan's ca­reer spanned over three decades in the en­er­gy and petro­chem­i­cal in­dus­try, marked by lead­er­ship roles in sev­er­al coun­tries, in­clud­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, the USA, Eu­rope, Africa, and Aus­tralia, and cul­mi­nat­ing in his role as Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad & To­ba­go from 2016 un­til 2024.

The Cham­ber added that Lo­quan's "ex­per­tise and ded­i­ca­tion to the en­er­gy sec­tor were in­valu­able to both the com­pa­nies he led and the in­dus­try as a whole."

The re­lease said that Lo­quan "had a deep and abid­ing com­mit­ment to the peo­ple of Trinidad & To­ba­go. His lead­er­ship of in­dus­try ini­tia­tives led to the cre­ation of a strong in­dus­try-wide safe­ty cul­ture in Trinidad & To­ba­go and to sig­nif­i­cant new ap­pre­ci­a­tion and com­mit­ment to de­car­bon­i­sa­tion and the cre­ation of a more sus­tain­able en­er­gy in­dus­try."

The Cham­ber high­light­ed that Lo­quan "helped cre­ate a sense of com­mon pur­pose across the en­er­gy val­ue chain, from up­stream op­er­a­tors through the petro­chem­i­cal pro­duc­ers, and through­out the sup­ply chain. He cham­pi­oned the de­vel­op­ment of skills, con­cerns for the en­vi­ron­ment, the ex­port of en­er­gy ser­vices and the recog­ni­tion of the im­por­tance of com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment. His in­dus­try col­leagues were al­ways in awe of his abil­i­ty to do all of this whilst al­so com­pos­ing and pro­duc­ing mu­sic, in par­tic­u­lar for his beloved steel pan."

The Cham­ber said it had been an­tic­i­pat­ing Lo­quan's tran­si­tion to the mu­sic in­dus­try; how­ev­er, his time was cut short. "When Mark an­nounced that he was re­tir­ing from the in­dus­try to pur­sue his love of mu­sic and cul­ture, his in­dus­try col­leagues were all look­ing for­ward to many years of his con­tin­ued con­tri­bu­tion to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment. It is a pro­found tragedy that his dreams to con­cen­trate on cul­ture have been cru­el­ly cut short by his ill­ness."