Pos­si­ble fu­ture col­lab­o­ra­tion on LNG op­por­tu­ni­ties was among sev­er­al is­sues dis­cussed at a re­cent meet­ing be­tween En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and Wood­side En­er­gy’s Coun­try Man­ag­er (Trinidad and To­ba­go), Mrs Kellyanne Lochan.

The meet­ing took place at the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ of­fices at the In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex, Port-of-Spain.

A re­lease from the Min­istry re­ports that dur­ing the meet­ing, Min­is­ter Young not­ed the com­pa­ny’s Pa­cif­ic Basin po­si­tion and its re­cent agree­ment for the ac­qui­si­tion of Tel­luri­an and Drift­wood LNG.

“The en­er­gy min­is­ter stat­ed that the Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go is open to col­lab­o­rat­ing on op­por­tu­ni­ties that can emerge from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s strate­gic lo­ca­tion in prox­im­i­ty to At­lantic and Pa­cif­ic routes for LNG,” the min­istry’s state­ment re­port­ed.

Min­is­ter Young al­so took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to con­grat­u­late Wood­side En­er­gy on its lat­est LNG tanker, the ‘Wood­side Scar­let Ibis’, which is named af­ter the na­tion­al bird of Trinidad and To­ba­go.  Ac­cord­ing to the min­is­ter, this demon­strates “the pos­i­tive stake­hold­er re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Wood­side En­er­gy.”

Kellyanne Lochan brought Min­is­ter Young up-to-speed on op­er­a­tions at Wood­side En­er­gy com­ing out of the re­cent as­set up­grade at Greater An­gos­tu­ra, as well as mar­ket­ing and com­mer­cial sur­round­ing the Ca­lyp­so deep wa­ter project.

The min­istry’s state­ment not­ed that both par­ties agreed to con­tin­ue their col­lab­o­ra­tive re­la­tion­ship in the in­ter­est of nav­i­gat­ing the glob­al eco­nom­ic out­look.