Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela have agreed to con­tin­ue shar­ing in­for­ma­tion and strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion on the man­age­ment of po­ten­tial cross-bor­der hy­dro­car­bon spills fol­low­ing a bi­lat­er­al meet­ing held on May 22.

The hy­brid meet­ing brought to­geth­er of­fi­cials from both coun­tries to dis­cuss en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion and on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port­ed oil spill at Ris­er Plat­form No. 2 in the Main Sol­da­do Field in the Gulf of Paria. Ear­li­er this month, the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries said re­sponse mea­sures had been ac­ti­vat­ed af­ter an oil spill was de­tect­ed in the area.

The Venezue­lan del­e­ga­tion was led by Min­is­ter of Pop­u­lar Pow­er for Ecoso­cial­ism, Fred­dy Ñáñez, and in­clud­ed Vice Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs Raúl Li Causi Pérez, along with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Min­istry of Peo­ple's Pow­er for Fish­eries and Aqua­cul­ture and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).