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For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is warn­ing that multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions could be ma­noeu­vring to take the lead on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s long-de­layed Drag­on Gas project, po­ten­tial­ly push­ing the State to the mar­gins of fu­ture ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Young raised the con­cern af­ter dis­clos­ing that he was con­tact­ed by an in­ter­na­tion­al en­er­gy in­tel­li­gence an­a­lyst, who said En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal dis­cussed Drag­on Gas at In­dia En­er­gy Week 2026, which runs from Jan­u­ary 27 to 30.

The for­mer min­is­ter ques­tioned why Mooni­lal did not at­tend the re­cent En­er­gy Cham­ber con­fer­ence at the Hy­att Re­gency in Port-of-Spain, ar­gu­ing that the Gov­ern­ment has failed to present a co­her­ent strat­e­gy or demon­strate trans­paren­cy on the fu­ture of the project.