Construction of a long-planned pipeline that could eventually carry natural gas from gas fields near Tobago to other Eastern Caribbean nations will begin in 2014, company officials said.
The first leg of the pipeline will run from a gas processing plant in an industrial park in southwestern Tobago to a yet unnamed location in Barbados. The island will receive its first shipment of gas in 2016, Greg Rich, the CEO of the Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company, said last week, according to the publication Caribbean Journal.
Building the 186-mile pipeline will create “long term value for the company’s investors while delivering tangible financial and environmental benefits to the islands served,” Mr. Rich said.
The Caribbean Journal reported that he made the announcement after attending a meeting with Tobago’s leader, Chief Secretary Orville London; Andy Lindholm, a representative of Beowulf Energy, a firm investing in the pipeline; and Clyde Williams, a technical advisor for the project.
See the April 11, 2013 edition for full coverage.
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