From Oil to Gas and Beyond

A Review of the Trinidad and Tobago Model and Analysis of Future Challenges

Trevor M. Boopsingh, Gregory McGuire (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

496 Seiten

2014
University Press of America (Verlag)
9780761863281 (ISBN)

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This book chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book will be useful as a source document to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in developments in the energy sector in a small developing state.

From Oil to Gas and Beyond chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book details the macroeconomic, commercial, and technical challenges faced by Trinidad and Tobago in the monetization of its oil and gas resources over the past one hundred years. The contributors cover several topics including local content, national participation, sustainability, communication, leadership, energy diplomacy, environmental law and macroeconomic policy.

Trevor M. Boopsingh was a distinguished member of the International Society of Petroleum Engineers. He served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources from 1981 to 1987. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Engineering at the University of the West Indies and served as chairman of its Engineering Institute from 1994 to 1998. He also served as chairman of the state-owned oil company Petrotrin from 1991 to 1995. His seminal work, Oil, Gas, and Development: A View from the South, was published in 1990. Boopsingh was awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s second highest honor: the Chaconia Medal (Gold) for his outstanding contribution to the nation. Gregory McGuire is recognized as one of the leading energy economists in Trinidad and Tobago. He has over twenty years of cumulative experience in the energy industry, with particular emphasis on negotiating gas contracts, strategic planning, and gas marketing.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: From Walter Darwent to Atlantic LNG Train 4
Trevor M. Boopsingh

Chapter 2: The Last Decade—Liquefied Natural Gas and Its Impact
Trevor M. Boopsingh

Chapter 3: Managing the Resource-based Economy in Times of Plenty
Gregory McGuire

Chapter 4: Natural Gas Market Structure, Contracts and Pricing in Trinidad and Tobago
Gregory McGuire

Chapter 5: Maximizing National Value—Ownership, National Participation,Local Content and Sustainable Development
Anthony E. Paul

Chapter 6: Trinidad and Tobago and Its Neighbours
Professor Anthony T. Bryan

Chapter 7: Future Hydrocarbon Resources
Anthony E. Paul

Chapter 8: Sustaining and Leveraging the Energy Sector Portfolio over the Next 100 Years
Baajnath Sirinath

Chapter 9: Energy and Development—Realizing the Vision
Kerston Coombs

Chapter 10: The Social Impact
Richard Braithwaite and Trevor M. Boopsingh

Chapter 11: Hydrocarbons and the Environment in Trinidad a

Zusatzinfo	82 b/w illustrations; 38 tables;
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 235 mm
Gewicht	862 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-13	9780761863281 / 9780761863281
Zustand	Neuware