En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has con­firmed that he has re­ceived a pre­lim­i­nary re­port from the com­mit­tee ap­point­ed to as­sess the fea­si­bil­i­ty of restart­ing the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

Speak­ing with re­porters at his Oropouche East Con­stituen­cy Of­fice in Debe dur­ing his Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions on Sun­day, Mooni­lal said the re­port was un­der re­view, but the pop­u­la­tion could ex­pect ex­cit­ing news in the com­ing days.

The Gov­ern­ment had set up a 12-mem­ber team, led by for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine, in­clud­ing for­mer Petrotrin re­fin­ery man­agers and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union, to as­sess the fea­si­bil­i­ty and cost of re­sum­ing op­er­a­tions at the re­fin­ery, which was shut down in 2018.