Some Caribbean islands are shaped by beaches, resorts, and easy shorelines. Saba is shaped by edges — sharp cliffs, climbing roads, and an island silhouette that doesn’t resemble anywhere else in the region. It’s the sort of place travelers hear about long before they ever meet someone who’s actually been, a huge volcanic peak rising […]
Above: Housing and Marine Affairs Minister Roodal Moonilal By the Caribbean Journal staff The recently-announced discovery of 1 trillion cubic feet of gas by BP Trinidad and Tobago will provide a boost to the country’s economy — but it will take some time for that to happen, according to Housing, Land and Marine Affairs Minister […]
By the Caribbean Journal staff British Petroleum said it had been awarded a pair of deepwater oil exploration blocks off the Trinidad coast. The two blocks are off of Trinidad’s eastern coast. BP’s Trinidad operations account for more than half of the country’s natural gas output and 12 percent of BP’s global oil and gas […]
A BP platform (© BP P.L.C.) British Petroleum, which pumps approximately 60 percent of the natural gas in Trinidad and Tobago, announced that it had shut its Mahogany A offshore drilling platform in order to improve its safety standards. “Since the Gulf of Mexico incident there have been instituted a number of new safety measures,” […]
