En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the In­di­an Oil Cor­po­ra­tion (IOC) are ex­pect­ed to vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter the Car­ni­val sea­son to pro­vide tech­ni­cal ad­vice on restart­ing the Pointe-a-Pierre Re­fin­ery.

The re­fin­ery, for­mer­ly op­er­at­ed by Petrotrin, was moth­balled in No­vem­ber 2018 as part of a re­struc­tur­ing ex­er­cise.

Mooni­lal yes­ter­day said the de­ci­sion for IOC to vis­it was agreed to in prin­ci­ple dur­ing the In­dia En­er­gy Week in Goa from Jan­u­ary 27-30. He led T&T’s del­e­ga­tion to the con­fer­ence, where dis­cus­sions fo­cused heav­i­ly on the fu­ture of re­fin­ing at Pointe-a-Pierre.