The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries now of­fi­cial­ly holds re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for three of the coun­try's key state en­er­gy com­pa­nies: Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ings Lim­it­ed, Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed. It fol­lows a gazette no­tice is­sued on Fri­day, May 23.

Ear­li­er this month, there was a wave of pub­lic at­ten­tion when the com­pa­nies were no­tably ab­sent from the ini­tial gazette no­tice dat­ed May 13, which out­lined min­is­te­r­i­al as­sign­ments fol­low­ing the for­ma­tion of the new UNC cab­i­net.

The omis­sion raised eye­brows in po­lit­i­cal and en­er­gy cir­cles, with for­mer En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Stu­art Young pub­licly warn­ing of what he de­scribed as a “se­ri­ous over­sight.”