When state-owned oil com­pa­ny Petrotrin in Pointe-a-Pierre closed its doors in No­vem­ber 2018 due to fi­nan­cial loss­es and in­ef­fi­cien­cies, lead­ing to sig­nif­i­cant re­struc­tur­ing in the en­er­gy sec­tor, T&T lost a cor­ner­stone of its econ­o­my for over a cen­tu­ry.

With plans to restart the re­fin­ery by the gov­ern­ment, this would not on­ly mean fresh eco­nom­ic stim­u­lus but Lar­ry Ram­nath, se­nior project man­ag­er for the oil and gas di­vi­sion of en­er­gy con­trac­tor TN Ram­nauth and Com­pa­ny Ltd is adamant that the re­fin­ery’s grounds could once again be a vi­brant train­ing fa­cil­i­ty, es­pe­cial­ly for young peo­ple want­i­ng a ca­reer in the en­er­gy sec­tor. This would, in turn, re­dound in pos­i­tive ben­e­fits to the coun­try.

In an in­ter­view with the Busi­ness Guardian, Ram­nath said TN Ram­nauth and Com­pa­ny Ltd, which has been in ex­is­tence since 1992, took a big hit when the re­fin­ery closed.