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Regional Focus: Caribbean/Pacific Islands Piping It In The National Gas Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. www.ngc.co.tt Employees: 690 Specialty: Purchase, transport and sale of natural gas Wade Hamilton, vice president, technical services: “We were able through prudent project management practices to control creep on some of these projects.” Four new pipelines and a project in Ghana will diversify the business of the National Gas Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. by Russ Gager n 1963, Trinidad and Tobago became the first Caribbean islands to switch from fuel oil to natural gas for the generation of its electricity and other domestic energy needs. Supplied initially from onshore gas fields in south Trinidad and later, in the early 1970s, from offshore fields connected to land through marine and onshore pipeline I segments, natural gas is purchased on contract, transported and sold to the energy industry and manufacturing concerns in Trinidad and Tobago by the state-owned National Gas Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (NGC). Trinidad’s natural gas production currently stands at 4.3 billion cubic feet per day, of which 60 percent is used for liquid natural gas production, NGC is constructing the $400 million NorthEastern Offshore pipeline, which will travel from a rig at an offshore oil field to a transmission house on Trinidad’s east coast. 22 (energy + infrastructure) winter/spring 2011 

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Energy & Infrastructure - Winter/Spring 2011

Energy & Infrastructure - Winter/Spring 2011
Editor’s Page
Contents
Infrastructure Needs
Financing HSR
Nationwide Green
Unstable Scenario
News
Natural Solution
CARIBBEAN/PACIFIC ISLAND REGIONAL FOCUS
The National Gas Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd.
Guam Power Authority
Jamaica Public Service
Belize Electricity Ltd.
Wärtsilä in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico
Port of Houston Authority
Oklahoma City Public Works – Project 180
Oak Creek Energy
Tres Amigas LLC
Northwest Territories Power Corp.
American Bituminous Power Partners
Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department
Environmental Dynamics
Paducah Power System
Last Look

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