Cabinet to consider refinery proposal within days, says Moonilal

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says Cab­i­net could con­sid­er pro­pos­als for the re­open­ing of the for­mer Petrotrin re­fin­ery at Pointe-a-Pierre with­in days, as the Gov­ern­ment moves clos­er to iden­ti­fy­ing an in­vestor and op­er­a­tor for the fa­cil­i­ty.

Speak­ing to re­porters while dis­trib­ut­ing Di­vali treats to mo­torists, pas­sen­gers and mem­bers of the pub­lic at Debe Junc­tion on Fri­day evening, he said the Gov­ern­ment was com­plet­ing the nec­es­sary doc­u­men­ta­tion and le­gal re­quire­ments, with a re­quest for pro­pos­als (RFP) ex­pect­ed to be is­sued be­fore the end of the year.

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He said the Gov­ern­ment had al­ready re­ceived con­sid­er­able in­ter­est from lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al en­ti­ties in­ter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing in the re­fin­ery’s re­vival.