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LNG exports from Tobago by 2011
by Daily Nation
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 12:09 UTC
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PORT-OF-SPAIN - Tobago is poised to export natural gas to northern Caribbean countries by mid-2011, due to the establishment of a new $485 million power station which will be fed by a new gas line from Trinidad, Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday.
Manning made the announcement during the commissioning ceremony for the Cove Power Station at the Cove Eco-Industrial and Business Park at Lowlands, Tobago.
The "dual fire" power station, which will be able to produce 64 megwatts, can operate on both natural gas and diesel as a backup and was provided by Power Plants Wartsila which is based in Finland.
Trinidad and Tobago earns most of its revenue from the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG), derived from natural gas reserves and generated by the four Atlantic LNG trains located in Point Fortin, Trinidad.
Manning, however, said that the natural gas exports from Tobago could be used for the proposed Eastern Caribbean Natural Gas Pipeline, which has been on the drawing board for several years now.
"The availability of gas in Tobago now places Tobago in a position where, to the extent that we take the decision to export gas to the islands north of Trinidad and Tobago, especially Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines and as far north as St Lucia by compressed means, it means that Tobago will now become an exporter of natural gas," Manning said. (Trinidad Express)
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