Click to view full size

In the hu­mid, in­dus­tri­al heart­land of 1960’s Trinidad, the air was of­ten thick with the pun­gent, metal­lic tang of burn­ing elec­trodes.

This was an era of pro­found trans­for­ma­tion for the is­land’s en­er­gy sec­tor, and amidst the dense forestry zones of Tex­a­co’s vast hold­ings, Habib Edoo was carv­ing out a name for him­self.

He was far more than a labour­er; he was a crafts­man of the oil field—a con­trac­tor whose hands flu­ent­ly spoke the struc­tur­al lan­guage of weld­ing, in­dus­tri­al pipelin­ing and the mas­sive steel skele­tons of tank farms.