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De­spite re­ports that the dis­pute at Point Lisas had been re­solved, an in­ter­nal memo from Nu­trien shows the com­pa­ny has al­ready shut down its Trinidad op­er­a­tions and re­mains dis­sat­is­fied with the out­come of its talks with the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion (NEC).

Fol­low­ing a high-lev­el meet­ing in­volv­ing Nu­trien, the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), and NEC, NGC agreed to with­draw its claim for US$28 mil­lion in retroac­tive port fees and re­open ac­cess to the port fa­cil­i­ties. Nu­trien had been prepar­ing to file an in­junc­tion but agreed to stand down af­ter the dis­cus­sions.

Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials have in­di­cat­ed that all par­ties are will­ing to move for­ward in the na­tion­al in­ter­est, and ef­forts are now be­ing made to restart the plant, though it may not be ful­ly op­er­a­tional by to­mor­row. How­ev­er, sources say the sit­u­a­tion is not yet ful­ly re­solved, as low gas sup­ply and high prices re­main on­go­ing chal­lenges. The com­pa­ny will al­so need to en­gage staff as part of the restart process.