Govt gets $61M in compensation from IOPC for Tobago oilspill disaster
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May 17, 2026
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Two years after Gulfstream capsized off the coast of Tobago, causing an oil spill affecting Scarborough and the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago has only managed to recover just over $61 million from its clean-up operations from the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds).
The IOPC had a compensation offer to T&T of $86.3 million.
The clean-up operations were handled by the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries and Heritage and totalled $311.7 million according to claims submitted to the IOPC.
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