Manning:
Jamaica to get LNG from “Train X”
By Asha Javeed
The Trinidad Guardian
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
03 25 07
Fresh
from a visit to Caracas on Tuesday during which
he met with Chavez, Manning said the meeting was
“very interesting, to put it mildly.”
The
Prime Minister was delivering the feature address
at yesterday’s energy Luncheon Meeting hosted
by British Gas at the ballroom of the Trinidad Hilton
and Conference Centre.
He
noted that the first unitisation agreement in the
Western Hemisphere was signed between T&T and
Venezuela on Tuesday night arising out of a Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) signed in 2003.
“What
now has to happen is we have to agree to the unitisation
of specific fields like Loran Manatee which has
reserves of 10 trillion cubic feet and we had to
agree on the use (to which) the reserves will be
put,” he said.
He
said reserves from the Loran Manatee field will
provide an opportunity for Jamaica to receive Liquefied
Natural Gas (LNG).
Prime
Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Chavez signed
an MOU on March 13 for the supply by Venezuela of
160 million cubic feet of LNG per day to Jamaica
to facilitate the expansion of power generation
and the bauxite alumina sector.
Manning
said the gas that will be produced from the Loran
Manatee field will form the basis of a new LNG Train
X, “ensuring that Jamaica is able to get 160
million cubic feet a day out of that train as a
requirement for the expansion of their aluminimum
manufacturing facility, some of which will be exported
to Trinidad for utilisation in a smelter contemplated
by Alcoa.”
Trinidad
Guardian
Thursday 22nd March, 2007
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