T&T/Guyana oil and gas support MoU to be signed before year end

Engaging Trinidad on oil and gas: Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Nicole Olivierre (second from right) with local ministers David Patterson, Simona Broomes, Winston Jordan and Raphael Trotman

The key Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the governments of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago under which the latter will provide various forms of support to the oil and gas sector in Guyana is likely to be signed before the end of this year, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has told the Stabroek Business.

Trotman also disclosed that a Petroleum Directorate is to be created within the ministry.

The pact between the two Caricom countries, which arose out of an acceptance by Guyana of an