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Trinidad and Tobago’s LNG Setback, A Gas Curtailment Reality Check
Over the last decade,2016 to 2026, Trinidad and Tobago’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector has largely drifted backward in production and export performance. While the country once posted stronger export results, the overall trajectory has weakened: LNG export volumes have fallen from a peak of 17.1 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2015 to roughly 10.3 bcm in 2024.
At first glance, the story can look like a typical industrial slowdown. But the core issue is far more structural. The decline in output is being driven primarily by what industry participants have described as a “gas curtailment” crisis, a shortage of raw natural gas supply needed to keep the LNG liquefaction facilities operating at full capacity.
(PNM failure to find more gas wells, just Rowley's and Young braying.)
In practical terms, the problem is not merely about demand or market access; it is about upstream and feed gas availability. LNG trains require a steady stream of natural gas to run efficiently, and when feed gas supply tightens, the operator is forced to curtail, reducing output, throttling operations, or in some cases taking assets offline.
That is why Train 1, one of the four liquefaction units, has reportedly been offline since 2020. The reason is straightforward: there simply has not been enough gas supply to justify, or sustain, its operation.
(According to a 2021 report, the government of Trinidad and Tobago spent approximately US$250 million on renovating/maintaining Atlantic Train 1. In March 2025, it was confirmed that Train 1 would be permanently decommissioned and decoupled from the rest of the Atlantic LNG facility. 250 million US wasted.)
For Trinidad and Tobago, this isn’t just a technical constraint; it has direct consequences for revenue, employment, and broader energy-sector investment confidence. It also highlights a key lesson for LNG-dependent economies: when the gas supply chain is disrupted, even temporarily, liquefaction capacity cannot “self-correct” on its own. The plant may exist, the facility may be there, but without consistent feed gas, production capacity becomes an idle asset rather than a growth engine.
(A decade in power and they failed to see shortages)
So the question going forward is not whether the world will keep buying LNG. It is whether Trinidad and Tobago can secure the raw natural gas supply needed to restart full operations, and, just as importantly, whether the energy policy and infrastructure decisions made in the coming years will prevent similar curtailment shocks from reappearing.
(The failures of Rowley and Young no increase in LNG over a decade)
In an LNG business, continuity is everything. And right now, continuity of gas supply is the missing link.
Notice with all the developments noted above in his rebuttal....T&T is still short 2.4 billion cubic feet of LNG per day and half of the plants still mothballed.
Let him copy/paste to show the PNM failures .
why did Rowley waste US 250 million on train One then junk it?
How much did LNG supplies improve during the PNM tenure or did it regress.
The above questions if answered would tell of failure or success.
See why I ignore PNM morons.
Sarge.