Trinidad’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley describes negotiations over the Dragon gas field as a significant challenge they’ve addressed since 2018. The Dragon field lies in Venezuelan waters but is close to Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean’s largest gas producer. It holds 120 million cubic meters of gas. The area neighbors Trinidadian fields run by Shell, […]
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