Trinidad & Tobago steps up natural gas production

[@danecharles8048]

Richard’s points, how tf gas is expensive in Trinidad and they produce it? 😆 What are you going to do with the revenue. They thief it. 😂

[@oshunblessedbe4416]

The audacity of this ministry and they closed down petrotrin and sent people home while they hire foreign contractors paying them to pump gas plus hike up gas prices for locals to pay. Ayy this government working for the devil

[@babooman724]

Please fix our roads

[@MrTorrence69]

All those millions of US dollars in oil going to the gov.high lifestyle n the country ain't going to benefit from any of it

[@Cxnvict]

U can say that again

[@wertsdfg7579]

Just move out of the bush 💀💀

[@tamaramat8808]

Please reform our education system and fund our schools!

[@Kimmy_95]

Remember the Minster of Works said we can fix our own roads LOL!!! BUT we have to ask them for permission before we do it. Smh.

[@rali-cassim2733]

Trinidad and Tobago has the gas resources, but do not control international geopolitics and media. Internally, tax reforms and revenue arrangements should benefit the nation and people via projects and programs, not just international speculators seeking quick profits. I hope all political parties and leaders get on the same page and seek mutual interests without selling out to foreign influencers as has been the issue in small state economies. 👏🏼🇹🇹🙏🏼❤️

[@ianbristol8099]

This sellout is hardly likely to happen under the PNM....just saying

[@huNter_117]

@@ianbristol8099 True

[@debbiemarquis3231]

That not happening because the opposition always on shit

[@Jcslyoutubecom]

​@@debbiemarquis3231PNM not unc

[@WordvsThem8484]

So Wait Why did they close down Petrotrin Again?? These Fools don't Know what they Doing👎😣

[@ianbristol8099]

Ok chupidee...an is de re fine reee they close jack rabbit...which more or less has nothing to do with this issue...but with the economy STUPID!

[@Habit7]

Petrotrin was not in the natural gas business.

[@lisakewley3892]

Provide better health care.

[@tobagogyal9350]

The problem with health care in Trinidad and Tobago isn't the government. It's the ppl working in the system..the work ethics of most trinibagonians working in the public sector to say it's horrible would be a gross understatement

[@nuffwahalatrypeacetrini9ja414]

@@tobagogyal9350 Yes, there are many unethical public servants but I'll go even further and say that the problem with health care in T&T isn't the providers within the system. It's the people, full stop. Each citizen needs to take his/her health seriously so we won't flood the system then complain about overcrowding, lack of beds, long waits, etc.

[@trinihammer]

you want better health care in trinidad ? in england you have to wait 4 hours for an ambulance and when you get to the hospital you have to wait 12 hours till a doctor can see you. so dont worry things not that bad in trinidad.

[@nuffwahalatrypeacetrini9ja414]

@@trinihammer Tnk you. Trinis always crying down their own and comparing it to what they don't know.

[@trinihammer]

@@nuffwahalatrypeacetrini9ja414 what's worse is all the nurses and doctors in england going on strike because they say the british government running down hospitals in the country by not investing in them. yet people in trinidad moaning about their health service as if they is the only ones with problems.

[@Fazie28]

My Home 🏠 land is the best and we Trinidad 🇹🇹 help anyone who need help . Great country great people give always helping hands Yep .

[@Fazie28]

Trinidad 🇹🇹 and Tobago is LNG Producer . Our country will help contribute the best we can Yep . We also has natural gas also Atonal ect fazieee Trinidad 🇹🇹

[@thelonewolf2929]

Our country is ass, run down by stupid corrupt politicians and rampant crime. The great Trinbago isn't what it used to be

[@Fazie28]

What a blessing Amen 🙏

[@cherrypoptart2001]

Bro, we cant even help ourselves with the way this country has been going for the past few years lol

[@maureenwhite6868]

you are a great Teacher. I am coming to retire in Trinidad.

[@brentrambhajan2295]

This man is the minister of everything also... Failed in each role before... Ashamed he said we have a good life here especially being the crime capital of the Caribbean and most corrupted.

[@Cxnvict]

We do have alot of crime but we aren't the crime capital of the Caribbean that's just exaggerating

[@MissTrinidadandTobago]

@@Cxnvict Trinidad and Tobago is the CRIME CAPITAL of the Caribbean and is ranked 6th in the world for highest crime capita...

[@jack-zi5ij]

@@Cxnvict we are the crime capital of the world, Jamaica is ranked #10 trinidad #6 and Venezuela #1..

[@eliling9841]

@@jack-zi5ij AND SO WHAT IF WE HAVE CRIME TF PUTIN STARTED A WAR AN PEOPLE STILL LOVE ...EUROPE STILL BUYING ALL THIR GAS YALL .SO WHAT TF IS ALLUR POINT in mentioning crime crime TF

[@jack-zi5ij]

@@eliling9841 And so what if we have crime!!! You sounds like an asshole, way tf you from saying that type of dum shit, mother's crying for their children, children crying for mother's, dude if you don't got anything to say STFU..

[@kuskut]

The problem is not about money, it's more about vision. Some folks have no sense of planning and efficiency; it's cultural.☹

[@AB-sr4fz]

If Mr Young wants to help the world by ramping up natural gas (and also oil) production, Trinidad’s going to require a lot out outside investment in its energy sector. It’s a shame Mr Young wasn’t asked how he thinks Trinidad will attract such investment given that it imposes the highest (and some highly punitive) taxes in the world on the energy sector. Repeated promises have been made to reform the fiscal system (including promises of a speedy review of all taxes at last October’s budget), but still nothing has been announced. Meanwhile, investment goes elsewhere.

[@lukeoldfield7940]

Good point. Tax reform badly needed!

[@richarddebideen6371]

Why this Stewart young lies so much the citizens are living in hell under this administration ppl cannot even have meals when the day comes we in Trinidad are facing a dictatorship atm.

[@naughtynanuk]

Here we are 2 years later and they warning of food shortages due to no foreign exchange

[@midnytevega2777]

Quest : what are you gonna do with all the extra revenue Young : we will do many things with it. Well shit I'm sold

[@coreydufeal2778]

He should have had made mention of how we save most of these windfalls into our Heritage and Stabilization fund, ensuring we have the means to steer us through difficult times.

[@roystonboodoo7525]

Thanks to the establishment of the same Heritage and Stabilization Fund by the previous UNC government.

[@stackuponguns2772]

@@roystonboodoo7525 it was made by manning

[@roystonboodoo7525]

@@stackuponguns2772 I stand corrected, if you're correct, thanks

[@mr.rupert5819]

He only have mouth for local media.

[@debbiemarquis3231]

@@roystonboodoo7525 And so what.??..they didn't get to kill that too.??

[@devanharripersad5730]

Boss we have nothing here, we full of corruption and criminals . That guy is a politician and not a very bright one. He's reading of a screen.

[@trinihammer]

we might have nothing but it still more than the rest of the caribbean put together.

[@devanharripersad5730]

@@trinihammer Guyana 🇬🇾, Barbados 🇧🇧

[@winstonseecharan5772]

Trinidad and Tobago is like little America the country rich in paper with plenty high pay jobs but 75 % struggling to make ends meet

[@Sango4522]

Whyyy. Our gas reserves are so small, every other major producer declined requests to step up production, if we do it to help rich countries fill their temporary shortages, we are just going to run out of our own gas faster. Ugh Stewart Young, are you thinking long term???

[@AB-sr4fz]

Trinidad and Tobago still has huge amounts of undiscovered gas reserves (it also has plenty of opportunities to provide its own energy needs from renewable sources instead of gas, thereby increasing the amount of gas available for export). The problem is that it costs vast amounts of money to look for them/bring them into production and at the moment the taxation system doesn’t encourage people to risk their money paying for those things. The consequence is that reserves are declining when they should be increasing. The government knows this (see last October’s budget and note that the Finance Minister has a Master’s degree in Oil and Gas Law, with a distinction, with a specialisation in Fiscal Regimes and Oil Taxation). However, it doesn’t seem to be in any sort of hurry to remedy the situation, which is pretty inexcusable given Trinidad’s poor economic performance since 2015. Speedy tax reform, which is what the government promised last October, will benefit Trinidad and Tobago. Investment will flood into the country, creating jobs, providing foreign exchange, generating additional taxes, and increasing energy production (in turn generating royalties for the government).

[@maringermain6457]

the other nations don't want to ramp up as the price will go down a bit. Trinidad's case is diffrent it has new markets to sell to :)

[@MrTorrence69]

It's Stuart n the PNM,u expect anything better from those idiot's,I certainly don't

[@noelphillip5012]

Trinidad and Tobago is the largest supplier of liquefied natural gas to the United States. In 2021, the U.S. imported over 21 billion cubic feet of LNG from the Caribbean island nation. The Atlantic LNG plant in Trinidad and Tobago is one of the largest liquefaction facilities in the world.

[@anssoftwaresolutions]

Mr. Quest just because the price of gas went up this year with the war, T&T will not see immediate profits the same year. It will be reflected in the next year financials. Mr. Young may have forgot to mention saving for the rainy day. Over the the past 50 years the price of gas has always rise and fall during tensions in different parts of the world. This is T&T's opportunity to safe guard our economy for the years ahead when gas may not be such a high demanding natural resource.

[@barrytelesford5265]

today is rainy. paying down debts is a saving too

[@raerambaran]

This govt is wasting our savings The journalist said its tremendous income and Stuart played it down

[@barrytelesford5265]

@@raerambaran he is British the like to use superlatives in speech.

[@ianbristol8099]

@@raerambaran you for real !! Wasting what money? Check kame pls

[@ianbristol8099]

@@raerambaran what allyuh does want!?? If the Minister had said ...yeh!! we makein plenty money! Yuh was goin tuh hear u self say something else.allyuh good yes

[@garyhaye9810]

You need to keep that oil for the island

[@adrianbasdeo7783]

All the minister have a good life and brand new cars

[@kuskut]

Every Trinidadian complains about the Politicians, yet do exactly the same in their day-to-day lives. I guess we are only as moral as our options.

[@gerardramoutar6690]

Billions spending every year in Trinidad and Tobago, yet the living conditions of the population continue to be sub standard, with no improvement in our public goods and services. Billions being spent and benefitting and enriching a few, this our population have voted for, decades now. We continue to vote for the 'knees on your neck' governance of the pnm and unc.It is time we stop trying to spray perfume on shit and face the reality that we vote people into our parliament that use our tax dollars for everything else but to benefit the people of this country, we need a psychological evaluation of the entire population to understand why voters continue to vote for pnm and unc. -thousands needlessly die and suffer in a sub standard health sector created by the pnm and unc, yet we vote pnm and unc -we complain everyday about waiting for hours to access basic healthcare but never change our vote -our education system is designed to keep our society divided by class and we continue to vote our children into that horse shit - there are no jobs for thousands of graduands but we vote pnm and unc -friends and family of the priviledged few access the highest paid jobs while educated nobodies are resigned to clerical work, if they lucky, but we vote pnm and unc -our incomes and social assistance cannot keep up with food prices but we continue to vote pnm and unc -crime is rampant because the powers that be have no interest in making the ttps effective because crime does not affect them, but we continue to give pnm and unc our tax dollars to protect their own, while your family get murdered and raped, yet we do not change our vote -the state, by their inaction, facilitates the gun and drug trade that supposedly benefits certain wealthy individuals, yet we vote pnm and unc -politicians boldy engage in corruption to enrich themselves while you catching ass but you vote pnm and unc -we get no interest on our savings, while banks making billions every year, but we vote pnm and unc -the state have their knees on our necks in all aspects of our lives, increasing taxes to fill their pockets, while doing nothing to develop the country in a strategic manner for future generations, yet we vote pnm and unc Are we self destructive by nature, why dont we want better for ourselves, get rid of the pnm and unc, see that your vote is the problem, we know who these people are, why continue to give your hard earned money to criminals.

[@trinihammer]

that is exactly what black people in the USA have been saying about their political system in other words what are you worrying about it isnt any different where ever you go in the world.

[@thelonewolf2929]

Finally, a trinidadian with an iq above 10

[@tonysabga5562]

This Minister is a true politician. Seven minutes of video interview and he said nothing important. To give the International public an insight of how Trini politicians think, the Prime Minister, like every country fighting the Covid pandemic, had shut down the all activities in T & T. Now, he reversed that order and declared to free all activities but closed down the beaches. So the journalists asked him: "Why did he free all activities but closed down the beaches, which for an island is essential for entertainment.?" He replied: " Very simple. The scientists sent him a letter warning him that Covid is coming in waves.

[@2s2bs]

One fallen Palm Tree shut down the Electricity Supply to the entire country. MUHCUH

[@Cxnvict]

Hahha you could tell me this

[@marvin-og7xj]

This money never reaches the people never only for him and his friends in office

[@Habit7]

Except for subsidised water and electricity utility rates, subsidised gasoline, diesel and CNG, subsidised LPG, subsidised public transport with buses, water taxis and ferries, free healthcare and subsidised tertiary education. Plus a range of other welfare programs.

[@jennybridge5089]

All the time was oil dollars now is gas but the citizan benefits anything no good road no water mo health care suffering nd hardships only potholes nd manholes .

[@kayj2093]

He is speaking as if he is a robot. Just a bunch of BS💩HELP your citizens FIRST!

[@awesomejob4209]

The u.s looks down on caribbean people, I don't see the long term benefits of ramping up productions because they'll soon be importing it

[@maringermain6457]

now i wanna visit trinidad :D is it safe there?:)

[@maringermain6457]

oh seems not :( if you ever want a nation to flourish rule of law is the first to be achieved.

[@awesomejob4209]

@@maringermain6457 America is not even safe, they have way more people than a small Caribbean island with way more crimes. Plus America is not even in the top 5 safest country

[@awesomejob4209]

@@maringermain6457 caribbean people eat way better foods than you do

[@maringermain6457]

well i'm not from the usa and my city ranks on nr 13 as safest cityes in the world so..food is also good :).

[@MyNatasha73]

What we do with our revenues is our business Richard. Please and thank you!

[@Thanos-cz8ld]

He forgot to say not much is being don for citizens as the money trickles down to the party in power and their private firms.

[@MyNatasha73]

Does he ask European or Americans "What are they going to do with it?"

[@nuffwahalatrypeacetrini9ja414]

I wonder! Very "farse and outta place!" Very unprofessional, smdh.

[@maringermain6457]

well now really the "world order" is starting to change... i think it's the first time i heard about trinidad and tobago except civilization 3 game i played in the 90's

[@roystonboodoo7525]

Trinidad was the major supplier of LNG to USA during their crisis in 2000's

[@trinihammer]

if you have a car and drive it on a road that is courtesy of trinidad and tobago. all roads all over the world are paved from asphalt from trinidad.

[@trinihammer]

i dont know what country you are from but let me tell you things you must know about so you definitely heard about trinidad and tobago. won miss world once, won miss universe twice, world netball champions 1979, qualified and played in 2006 soccer world cup, brian lara worlds best cricket batsman from trinidad, billy ocean from trinidad, nicki minaj from trinidad, hasely crawford 100m olympic champion 1976 from trinidad, dwight yorke who played soccer for manchester utd is from trinidad, trinidad worlds largest producer of asphalt in the world, trinidad the island that invented calypso and the steel pan. you say you never ever heard about trinidad and tobago can i ask are you educated ?

[@micfin888]

But aye aye! How yuh go ask what we will do with it?! He fass!!

[@eliling9841]

🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@adrianbasdeo7783]

Mamaguy

[@williambaggooassociates7613]

So where the bleddy money going?

[@ldramsay-overall1257]

🇹🇹❤️🇹🇹

[@ardianjohn7221]

Waste of time 🙄 people still suffering 😒

[@mr.rupert5819]

From the Budget yesterday, alyuh still living a pretty good life ????lol

[@kinging2971]

We currently have a local crisis

[@andrejeffers3795]

The people of trinidad and tobago not benefiting from anything here. Lol that's a joke.

[@kevenantoine3587]

He sounded too thirsty.

[@Mad21X]

Atlantic’s Train 1 is offline because of insufficient natural gas, The remaining Trains are running well below capacity…u guessed it - lack of natural gas. The Companies on the Estate are on schedules and still can’t get their requested volumes, but that person above saying what? You had exploration ventures by the upstream companies which produce less than satisfactory gas findings with exploration encouraged by the previous administration. This government after 7.5 years in office has only now announced expression of interest for the deep water blocks arising out of a piss poor showing. These guys knew about the gas shortage well in advance, we are an energy based economy….. explain to me what it is this guy above is really saying please? They went Qatar instead of Surinam or Guyana, explain why? (5mks) How did they plan to get gas from Qatar? (5mks) Trinibagonians I implore y’all, please wake up!

[@trini2DBone134]

He should be worrying about fixing our roads first 🙄

[@jackassfuckyoutube7458]

Oh good

[@dac545j]

Nais neim.

[@tesla3915]

And still a very poor country the standards of living is horrible lots of corruption

[@ldramsay-overall1257]

Wrong on all levels 🤨

[@tesla3915]

@@ldramsay-overall1257 $20 dollars for bread The people don’t know what language they speak run down infrastructure the food is so unhealthy give you diabetes don’t know what planet are from clearly you are blindsided this place is a total sh t hole

[@trini2DBone134]

Um we country is a lot of things but poor isn't one of them

[@tamaramat8808]

​@@trini2DBone134 If you can confidentiality say that then I hope you're able to acknowledge your privileges

[@trini2DBone134]

@@tamaramat8808 don't you mean confidently? Let how to speak before telling me about "privileges"

[@curlansolomon4275]

We want our 2%

[@curlansolomon4275]

That for d people

[@jeremyknott9402]

Stuart responded well.......that his govt will spend wisely.......Trinidad needs to improve its general infrastructure.. not spend on unnecessary new airport terminals...attract more foreign investment .....and tidy up its crime and corruption .......

[@jeremyknott9402]

Give Tobago a marina would be a good start…….a worthy investment for the island

[@server2307]

Well nothing wrong with the new airport terminals, its modernizing. Anyhow, i think the govt needs to send suits to Europe and pitch for investments in the energy sector.

[@SelbySmith-w5e]

And the country is in a mess

[@curlansolomon4275]

Come on

[@hussienalsafi1149]

😊😊😊😊😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@clintonwilliams4570]

Not making any definite accusations here, but by mere facial expressions, basic mannerisms, tone and addressing the interviewer by their first names sometimes hint a degree of discomfort while trying to be politically correct with answers to please the world out there! PNM FOR EVER BREDA! 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@clintonwilliams4570]

Imagine the honorable minister of energy making this interview over a year ago and since then red flag signs of TT actually running out of natural gas.... Paying bills and enjoying a good life with a great education.... And Hey TT is.... As the kaiso say "Dat is lie!" 😅

[@christopherramdass9225]

Aye them is big theif fix the dam road why gas so expensive in Trinidad 50 dollars gas is like 20 now

[@crazyhandshands9028]

He's corrupt

[@HEADLESSPRODUCTIONZS]

Good Rep.