Anthony E' Paul

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Trinidad Tobago Sustainable Development
NetworkInformation Mapping Programme
SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL RECURSOS NATURALES,
DESARROLLO Y DEMOCRACIA EN AMÉRICA LATINA 5 Y 6
DE DICIEMBRE Lima, Peru
Supporting Transparency in the Oil and Gas Sector

• Anthony E. Paul
• Managing Director,
• Caribbean Energy Specialists
• tony1paul_at_gmail.com

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Contents

• Context
• TT Oil Natural gas industry growth
• The Vision
• Energy Vision 2020
• Energy Sectors role in national development
• The TT Sustainable Development Network
• The Information Mapping Programme
• Framework for Information Mapping

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Trinidad Tobago - Location
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Oil Gas Production History A Conservative
Forecast - 2023
ALNG IV
Ministry of Energy Energy Industries
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The Energy Sector Plays a Major Role in TTs
Development

• The energy sector is the dominant sector of the
  national economy - The need to infuse the overall
  environment with sector best practices and
• thinking and to increase the pace of economic
  diversification has become increasingly critical,
  given the changing structure of the
• domestic economy and international markets.
• The fundamental challenge faced by TT is to
  create the conditions for sustainable long-term
  growth and development of the energy sector,
• the wider economy and the people of TT. The
  principal vision of the energy sector in the
  context of Vision 2020 is to ensure sustainable
  long-term
• development.

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The Trinidad and Tobago Sustainable Development
Network

• OVERALL PURPOSE AND GOAL
• The purpose of this Network is to create a
  mechanism through which civic society would seek
  to influence the process for planning for
  sustainable development and its implementation in
  Trinidad and Tobago, as well as to contribute to
  the approach and content of particular
  development proposals. The goal of the Network
  is to achieve an approach to planning for the
  economic, environmental and social development of
  Trinidad and Tobago, that is holistic,
  inter-sectoral, inter-disciplinary, participatory
  and inclusive of a wide range of citizen
  interests.
• In its pursuit of this purpose and goal, the
  Network will seek to maintain an institutional
  memory about, and to contribute to continuity in,
  policy analysis and implementation within the
  country, and will emphasise accountability,
  consultation and transparency in the conduct of
  planning, design and implementation of
  development activities.
• This overall purpose and goal will be pursued by
  Members of the Network through the kinds of
  activities indicated below, in conjunction with
  other individuals and entities who may
  collaborate.
• GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE
• The scope of interest of the Network will be
  Trinidad and Tobago. However, the perspectives
  advocated and applied will be considered in the
  context of, and with the purpose of contributing
  to, the building of the Caribbean Community of
  nations of which Trinidad and Tobago is a member
  state.
• COMPOSITION
• The Trinidad and Tobago Sustainable Development
  Network will consist of individuals operating in
  their personal capacity. The Network will
  comprise those who have already expressed and
  demonstrated an interest in attending and working
  voluntarily towards the Overall Purpose and Goal.
  The Network will expand to accommodate more
  persons over time. These persons will be called
  Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Sustainable
  Development Network.

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The Trinidad and Tobago Sustainable Development
Network (contd)

• SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To influence approaches to planning for
  development so that they are consistent with the
  Overall Purpose and Goal stated above
• To inculcate in national and local level planning
  frameworks the tenets of economic viability and
  sustainability environmental protection,
  resource conservation, and sustainability and
  social equity as underlying principles as well as
  primary outcomes of Development
• To create mechanisms and opportunities that would
  lead to coalition of interests and pooling of
  resources with other individuals and entities in
  pursuit of the Goal
• To undertake research and policy analysis, and to
  make policy and programme recommendations,
  pertaining to development issues and needs
• To arrange public events for obtaining widespread
  participation and inputs into discussion about
  such research, analysis and recommendations
• To disseminate research results, to advocate and
  represent policy and programme recommendations of
  the Network
• To engage in collaborative work that would
  generally strengthen the operation, performance
  and impact of civic society organizations engaged
  in this field
• To identify and influence priorities for planning
  for sustainable development
• To influence establishment of monitoring
  mechanisms
• To undertake socio-economic and ecological
  assessments.

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Energy Information Mapping Programme -
Objectives

• The overall goals of the Energy Information
  Mapping Programme are
• 1-To permit easy access to information in the
  energy access by members of the public
• 2-To open up a debate on transparency in the
  energy sector
• 3-To open up a debate on energy sector related
  policies such as proposed
• construction of smelter plants and the creation
  of a Heritage and Stabilization Fund
• 4-To present SDN as a civic society actor in the
  energy sector in a manner that would
• Support other civic society groups and agents in
  their quest for unbiased information and guidance
  in debates affecting them at a community and
  national level
• Support the provision of ongoing information and
  access to a comprehensive pool of materials
  within a collaborative framework that would
  provide muti-disciplinary and cross-sectorial
  linkage in addressing issues related to the
  energy sector
• Support the work of other civic society actors
  by creating a mechanism through which information
  is easily shared thereby avoiding duplication of
  information/work and

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Activities

• Identification of the existence, locations and
  sources of information available to the public on
  the energy sector with respect and related to
• -Government, and state owned private companies
  and government joint-venture companies engaged in
  the energy sector
• -listing of Invitations to tender for energy
  contracts above a certain sum by government
  companies and corporations
• -List of Contracts awarded based on the
  Invitations to Tender
• -Volumes and value of oil and gas production and
  processing
• -Payments by private companies to the Government
  of Trinidad and Tobago of Income tax, royalties,
  fees other payments with respect to upstream and
  downstream operations
• -Long-term concessions/incentives (period to be
  determined) provided by the government and state
  owned corporations to private companies both
  locally and internationally
• -Listing of board members of state owned or
  energy based companies in which the government
  hold gt 50 shares
• -Percentage of remittance government receives
  from state owned oil and gas companies, including
  time frame within which such should be paid in
• -Identification of the existence of information
  gaps that the public is not permitted access to
  either by law or state sector practice
• -Local content of the energy sector
• Direct Job creation
• Local demand for goods and services
• -Procurement with energy sector provided revenues
• Create a Map of the Legal Framework underpinning
  the Energy Sector which
• -Explains the basic legislation governing the
  various aspects of the energy sector
• -Identify factors within the sector that create
  legal triggers which generally support or
  facilitate changes in taxation, royalties, costs
  and other energy based revenue income available
  to government
• -Identify legal frameworks, which permit changes
  in government policy spending patterns without
  parliamentary oversight
• -Identify energy sector legislation which must be
  complied with both at parliamentary and company
  level

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Activities (contd)

• Create and publish a technical report
• -Which analyzes and recommends, within a
  sustainable development framework, the proposed
  Government plans for the expansion of the energy
  sector in general and development of industries
  such as Aluminum smelting in particular and its
  impact for the future
• -Which includes analysis, critique and
  recommendations on the proposed Heritage and
  Stabilization Act in light of current and
  government proposed energy based
  industrialization development.
• Create and publish a popular report
• Which summarizes the mapping exercise, the
  presence or absence of transparency and access to
  certain information and the manner in which it
  may affect decision-making on behalf of the
  society and prevent public participation in
  matters affecting their future from a SD
  perspective
• Draft and publish Reports
• Summarizing debates and policy recommendations
• Regarding the proposed Heritage and Stabilization
  Fund
• Regarding the proposed construction of aluminum
  smelter plants
• Create and Implement an SDN resource-based Web
  page
• To provide public access to the map created
• To disseminate materials and information and
  engender discussion related to sustainable
  development of the energy sector and
• To inform of the work/activities of the SDN and
  access to any resources available within it
• Seminars/Workshops
• Organize 2 workshops- one community-based and an
  international workshop Both will present SDN to
  wider civic society and present the public
  information map created. Presentations will be
  placed within sustainable development paradigms
  of the Network and context will be placed
  against the backdrop of discussing the proposals
  for aluminum smelting and the Heritage and
  Stabilization Fund and findings on the decision
  making process and issues of transparency within
  the energy sector.

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First Phase

• Overall Theme Measuring the Economic Impact of
  the Oil and Gas Sector on the Trinidad and Tobago
  Economy 1974-2007
• Specific Projects will seek to measure the
  economic impact of some specific
  companies/industries in the oil and gas sector
• BP Petrotrin
• British Gas Repsol YPF
• National Gas Company(NGC Phoenix Park Gas
  Processors
• Trinidad and Tobago Methanol Holdings Ltd
  Methanex
• Atlantic LNG Ispat
• Key Indicators to be Measured include
• Start-Up Year
• Nationality of Ownership (including changes from
  1974 to present and asset sale revenue earned by
  whom and how then utilised)
• Type of product(s) producedcapacity and
  quantities producedi.e.capacity
  utilisation(including changes in types or
  quantities from 1974 to present)
• Capital Investment (including any additional
  investment since start up linked to changes in
  types or quantity of output)
• Global Industrial Market Context
• a. Price trends in products produced from
  1974 to present
• b. Relationship to non-TT parent companies
  and contribution to overall company production,
  Investment, Revenue and profits (where relevant
  ie in case of subsidiaries)
• c. Share of global and key national
  markets (e.g. USA) in product(s) produced(total
  and international trade in this market)
• d. Actual markets in which output is sold.

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Framework for Mapping Information in the TT
Energy Sector

• The framework will be applied to an ongoing
  exercise of information gathering and knowledge
  management. It will be developed and applied in
  multiple dimensions, as follows
• Along the value chain What are the activities
  and who are the players?
• Roles, responsibilities, expectations, etc
• What data and information are generated?
• Who is the developer, owner, custodian of new
  information?
• Across interactions who are the players and how
  do they relate?
• Legislation, contracts, etc
• Internally (in TT) and externally
  (internationally)
• How and where do companies and government relate
  to stakeholders outside TT shareholders, IFIs,
  financiers, technical publications, etc.
• Sources what, where, how to access?
• Data static, accessible in original format
• Information analysed and placed in some
  context
• Knowledge - people, networks, experts
• It is easier to find out something by asking
  someone who knows than trying to re-create the
  knowledge yourself.

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The Trinidad Tobago Energy Value Chain-
example of some players in Oil Gas