Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art Young toured the Men­to plat­form at the TOF­CO fab­ri­ca­tion yard on Wednes­day.

The plat­form is in the fi­nal stages of con­struc­tion as it gets ready for sail­away with­in the com­ing weeks.

The Men­to de­vel­op­ment is a 50/50 joint ven­ture be­tween EOG Re­sources Trinidad Lim­it­ed and bpTT, with EOG as the op­er­a­tor.

Young toured the fa­cil­i­ty ac­com­pa­nied by lead­er­ship from EOG, bpTT and TOF­CO in­clud­ing EOG Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor George Vieira, bpTT pres­i­dent David Camp­bell, and TOF­CO gen­er­al man­ag­er Javed Mo­hammed.

Men­to will be a 12-slot manned fa­cil­i­ty lo­cat­ed in acreage joint­ly li­censed by bpTT and EOG off Trinidad’s south­east coast. First gas is ex­pect­ed in 2025.

Men­to is one of the de­vel­op­ments de­liv­ered through a joint ven­ture be­tween bpTT and EOG.