NGC
gives $3m to UTT gas institute
By Roxanne Stapleton
Trinidad Express
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
11 12 06
THE NATURAL Gas Institute of the Americas of the
University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT), on Wednesday
received a contribution of $3 million from the National
Gas Company (NGC).
It
was the first tranche of a total of $9 million.
Chairman
of the Board of directors of UTT, Prof Ken Julien,
just back from an extensive trip to China, received
the funds on behalf of UTT and was the evening's
feature speaker, at the handover at the Hilton Trinidad,
Port of Spain.
Revealing
that the trip was rather fruitful, Julien said that
technologies developed in China will be applied
to the development of the "smaller of our aluminum
smelters".
"I've
returned from a very tiring and extensive trip to
China and when I was there I made a point of visiting
the University (North Eastern University of China)
that had developed and sold the technology that
we are going to be using in the smaller of our aluminum
smelters."
That
university, he said, was given the mandate by the
Chinese Government to develop and introduce the
technology throughout its entire system, with a
view to selling and exporting its packaged findings.
"This
institution was given the mandate to focus on non-ferrous
metals and they developed technologies around alumina,
magnesium and so on.
"They
were given the funding and resources, saying we
need that technology for our own uses and we also
need it to export eventually-incidentally Trinidad
and Tobago will be the very first introducing that
technology, outside of China," Julien noted.
Other
speakers included NGC president, Frank Look Kin
and UTT executive director, Dr Rene Monteil.
Trinidad
Express
Friday, November 10th 2006
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