Member Info for happysparrow

https://jpt.spe.org/south-america-and-the-caribbean-the-forming-of-strategic-energy-alliances-that-can-impact-this-decade-and-the-next

https://twitter.com/TTMEEI/status/1545113855931580419/photo/2
'get the resources out of the ground'
'in the shortest time frame'

https://twitter.com/moonxav
A definite improvement !

https://www.ttt.live/onshore-energy-bid-round-opens/

https://trinidadexpress.com/business/local/onshore-bid-round-launched/article_4d9e3f70-0179-11ed-80a3-275b97dfa29d.html
'The bid round closes on January 9, 2023 and the Ministry of Energy said it expects to make an award of the blocks in April 2023....

'Young said currently the National Gas Company (NGC) is in negotiations with upstream companies for new gas supply contracts in order to maintain its supply to its downstream customers....'

https://www.guardian.co.tt/business/young-urges-increased-energy-production-to-benefit-from-high-prices-6.2.1518082.fdb212fcb6

https://www.guardian.co.tt/business/11-onshore-exploration-blocks-offered-for-bids-6.2.1518084.76c135e29d

https://www.ema.co.tt/about/ema-md/
Mr. Romano has lectured part-time at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, in the Engineering Geology and Petroleum Geosciences disciplines.
Mr. Romano graduated with a BSc degree in Geology from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and an MSc Engineering Geology from the Leeds University, UK. He is a Member of the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago, a Chartered Geologist, Fellow of the Geological Society of London, UK and Chartered Scientist, London, UK.

I expect he knows our Mr Moonan well.

Xavier Moonan, M.Sc.
Exploration Manager, Touchstone Exploration (Trinidad) Ltd.
Mr. Moonan has over fifteen years of experience working as a petroleum geologist (exploration, development and operations) in all of the sedimentary basins and sub-basins onshore and offshore Trinidad and Tobago. His professional experience includes work with Geoservices Schlumberger, former state owned Petrotrin, and a UK based gas company Centrica Energy. In addition to his role at Touchstone, he supports the Petroleum Engineering Programme at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Petroleum Geoscience Programme at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus through lectures. Mr. Moonan is widely recognized regionally for his structural mapping and restoration techniques of the Middle Miocene Herrera deep water turbidites which are the primary reservoir targets of Touchstone's Ortoire block. Mr. Moonan served as a Region Delegate, Treasurer and Vice President for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Latin America and Caribbean Region ("LACR") and currently serves as the President Elect for AAPG LACR. He served as President of the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago and as Convener of the 20 th Caribbean Geological Conference, AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshops (GTW) Trinidad and Tobago, AAPG GTW Guyana, AAPG GTW Suriname, AAPG SE Caribbean and Guiana Basins Virtual Symposium and AAPG Caribbean Technical Symposium and E&P Summit. Mr. Moonan is also a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) and the Houston Geological Society (HGS), Geological Society of America (GSA) and Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). In 2021 he was awarded the AAPG Grover E. Murray Distinguished Educator Award . Mr. Moonan holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica and a master’s degree in structural geology with geophysics from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

https://www.ema.co.tt/about/

https://www.ttt.live/energy-minister-mega-energy-projects-coming/

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/07/11/ema-directors-get-instruments-of-appointment/

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/07/11/ministry-of-energy-launches-onshore-bid-rounds/

'Dr. Priya Marajh is currently the Vice President - Advocacy and Member Engagement at the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago and a lecturer of various international relations courses at the University of the West Indies. She has extensive experience in both corporate and academia in the energy sector, and in the areas of international business development, relations and law, diplomacy, advocacy, local content development, and social and economic policy development.



Prior to joining the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Marajh served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago. She holds a Master of Science in International Relations from the University of the West Indies, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London and a Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of the West Indies.'

Well done, dunder. It looks like TXP is beginning to listen (though time to reduce the number of directors overall). This is the local appointee we were looking for - perhaps a major influencer and networker on the island. Her connection with the Energy Chamber is important (and government ministries, of course). The Energy Chamber is the major advocate for improvements in the T&T Energy sector.
They advised on The recent article here: https://guardian.co.tt/news/is-the-ema-costing-tt-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-6.2.1515925.448be83063
'“The Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago will continue to advocate for faster decision making across all relevant agencies and we hope that this will become a key area of focus for the Government.'
and here is their 6-point plan (includes tax reform):
https://energynow.tt/blog/six-point-plan-to-secure-new-natural-gas-supplies-and-maximise-exports-from-trinidad-amp-tobago-2022-2030
A good appointment.

Its not the environmentalists, MJ; it's the Globalists using these people for their own depopulation agenda. Here's a letter in my local paper (yes, I give them a hard time too):
xxxx's Climate Change and Sustainability document is open for public comment. It contains sensible ideas on waste and water management, and enhancing habitat. However, this work is discredited by dressing it up in the arrant nonsense of a 'Climate Emergency' and CO2 emissions reduction.
Basic research reveals that CO2 is an essential element to life, not a pollutant; and, as man-made CO2 accounts for no more than 0.3% of the Earth's atmosphere, it cannot possibly be the driver of Climate Change [activity of, and distance from, the sun make for far more credible science].
Such Globalist propaganda results in certain elites seeing mankind as vermin to be culled [see Dr Nass's 2019 review of Godefridi's 'The Green Reich' on the christian website The Postil]. At Davos, World Economic Forum attendees are lectured by the likes of Yuval Harari on surveilling, controlling and culling the 'Useless Eaters'; genetically modifying and transhumanising the rest of humanity - a sordid technocratic future of elites and serfs straight out of Huxley's Brave New World. Disturbingly, the WEF boasts infiltration of its placees in most governments - Merkel, Sarkozy, Blair, Macron, Ardern, Trudeau and half his cabinet among them.
In 2015, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's Prime Minister warned that the elites had a goal of One World Government and to reduce the Earth's population to just one billion. Few eyebrows were raised when, in 2012, Stanley Johnson, novelist, said the UK population should be just 10 to 15 million by 2025.
With the recent engineering of plagues, wars, and oncoming famines, one might be forgiven for thinking that this long-planned population reduction was well underway. It does xxxx Council no credit to unwittingly lend support to such a ruthless agenda.

https://twitter.com/tttliveonline/status/1545434417652441089?cxt=HHwWgoCx_cWavvIqAAAA

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/07/09/touchstone-projects-high-gas-yield-from-cascadura-field/
'...General manager of operations Christopher George said Touchstone was awaiting relevant approvals, such as its certificate of environmental clearance (CEC) and environmental impact assessment (EIA) from the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) before the separators were installed.

“Initially the determination time would have been June 30. However, we would have had review assessment reports that the EMA will get back to us with if there are any additional questions or things that needed to be addressed. We would have had to have those that came from the EMA and as a result of that the termination period from the end would have been shifted.

“We are hoping to have a very quick turnaround in terms of having that approved. We're just preparing our final review assessment report to be sent back to the EMA and then they will have their review done. Only then will we be able to know what the determination regarding the EIA is.”

George added that the magnitude of the production from the Cascadura facility, once maintained, can be enough to run one of Atlantic’s LNG plants, thereby tremendously benefiting TT. ...'

Thanks for the appreciation, dunder. Have now written again to the EMA, NGC, TXP, Mr Young, and Mr Curtis Williams. Making sure all resources are thrown at, not only EIA completion, but the following pipeline and facilities construction, so as to get this done asap. Also a further proposal to Mr Young which should really help the Cascadura project (I'll keep this to myself - but I expect you can guess how a government might progress this.)

Agree, dunder, that TXP needs to be diplomatic within the community. This pressure has to be applied from outside the company. They can always write me off as a lone nutter.
You have done an excellent job in applying pressure on TXP from a shareholder perspective; hopefully, in a small way, I'm doing similar by applying pressure on the other parties through using the media and politicians.
Fingers crossed this pushes things along somewhat.
GLA.

'As a result now (worryingly) this is much more in the public glare and this is where people really start to dig their heels in and things can take even longer to solve and other diplomatic solutions become much more difficult to attain.'

Disagree, dunder, clearly. Sometimes it is best to speak out so that heads are knocked together, and there is no hiding for those at fault - who will then need to up their game.
Mr Curtis Williams wrote an excellent article, putting it in the wider context of this being a long-standing problem in Trinidad generally. Stuart Young and the PM have been lauding T&T as leaders for a Regional Energy strategy, and with Caricom. Thus they will want to make sure this embarrassing problem is sorted asap - and that no more stories like this surface. (Have written a polite and lengthy letter to the MD of the EMA, emphasising the importance of this project to the people, and that TXP is not blameless either for the delay, and the extent of resources available to the EMA to get this done; and will write to Mr Young, et al tomorrow.)
The intention is that the pressure from the press, who will continue to monitor progress, and the pressure from ministers, will be enough to get approval signed off by all parties very soon. We shall see - but I don't think the press or Energy Chamber will let this go if this drags out further.

http://www.tradearabia.com/news/IND_398431.html