The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go says a re­vi­talised Venezuela oil in­dus­try could po­ten­tial­ly be one source for pro­vid­ing crude oil if the oil re­fin­ery in south Trinidad is re-start­ed.

“If the re­fin­ery does restart, as every­one in the in­dus­try hopes, then the re­fin­ery op­er­a­tors will have to find new sources of crude to im­port. A re­vi­talised Venezuela oil in­dus­try could po­ten­tial­ly be one source,” the En­er­gy Cham­ber said.

It said that over the past few years there has been a great deal of dis­course in the coun­try about the op­por­tu­ni­ties to im­port nat­ur­al gas from Venezuela to Trinidad for pro­cess­ing in­to petro­chem­i­cal or liqui­fied nat­ur­al gas (LNG) and re-ex­port­ing the fi­nal prod­ucts to in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.