The Trinidad and Tobago real estate market’s fortunes have long been tied to those of the oil sector. Between 1991 and 2006 house prices more than quadrupled as the country’s hydrocarbons and petrochemicals industries grew strongly. This stoked a construction boom that led to the rapid development of grade-A office and residential properties....
In his October 2015 budget speech, the newly appointed minister of finance, Colm Imbert, underscored the fact that Trinidad and Tobago’s manufacturing sector had fallen below 10% of national GDP. Estimates from the Central Statistical Office (CSO) put the figure at 8.1% in 2015, with food, beverages and tobacco accounting for around 4.5% of...
Trinidad and Tobago’s energy industry stretches across a range of upstream, midstream and downstream activities, including on- and offshore oil and gas exploration and production; oil and gas processing and refining, which produces petrol and other fuels; liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and export; pipeline operation and distribution;...
BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) is developing Juniper, a major offshore natural gas project off the south-east coast of Trinidad. Juniper is significant in many different respects. For T&T the project is vitally important; it promises to help close the natural gas supply deficit that has affected the downstream and liquified natural gas (LNG...
The financial squeeze that has been caused by lower oil and gas prices, together with doubts over the commercial viability of some new projects, has led to pressure on overall levels of exploration activity in Trinidad and Tobago. However, there has not been as sharp a reduction as was experienced during the global financial crisis of 2008....
Alongside the renewed impetus to diversify Trinidad and Tobago’s industrial sector, businesses are pursuing new export markets for products and services. Traditionally, exports have been focused on the member countries of CARICOM, established in 1973. The largest export market is Jamaica, which received $182m worth of T&T products in the...
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