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Christopher George, left, Touchstone Exploration general manager, operations, along with senior workers and Ramps Logistics Ltd general manager Javed Razack at the unveiling of new equipment, Forest Reserve, Fyzabad on Friday. – MARVIN HAMILTON

By 2023, the Touchstone Exploration (Trinidad) Ltd Cascadura Field project is expected to produce up to 200 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d) of natural gas with the aid of its new separators.

On Friday, the company revealed the equipment, which was housed at its Forest Reserve Road, Fyzabad office. The large CAS-1 ST1 and CAS DEEP-1 horizontal separators and the vertical flash separator were shipped from Stettler Alberta, Canada, while the vapour recovery units were shipped from Midland Texas, USA.

Touchstone said, when Cascadura starts production, it was expected to start at 60 mmscf/d and then ramped up to 90 mmscf/d by end of 2022 from the two existing wells.

Exploration manager Xavier Moonan said, “The Cascadura field, from getting all that data from these two wells, we were able to establish that there’s potentially 700 billion cubic feet in place. That’s impressive in onshore gas fields. That makes it actually the largest onshore gas field ever discovered in Trinidad.

“Natural gas will go to Point Lisas but there are also liquids (condensate) which will go via a pipeline, that we will construct southward and that’s where we will be able to add oil production to the country as well.”

To assist with the current natural gas supply, Moonan said the National Gas Company (NGC) will be building a 20-inch 1.6km long gas pipeline which would tie the Cascadura facility to their 30-inch Beachfield-Phoenix Park gas pipeline to supply gas to downstream users at Point Lisas.

General manager of operations Christopher George said Touchstone was awaiting relevant approvals, such as its certificate of environmental clearance (CEC) and environmental impact assessment (EIA) from the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) before the separators were installed.

“Initially the determination time would have been June 30. However, we would have had review assessment reports that the EMA will get back to us with if there are any additional questions or things that needed to be addressed. We would have had to have those that came from the EMA and as a result of that the termination period from the end would have been shifted.

“We are hoping to have a very quick turnaround in terms of having that approved. We’re just preparing our final review assessment report to be sent back to the EMA and then they will have their review done. Only then will we be able to know what the determination regarding the EIA is.”

George added that the magnitude of the production from the Cascadura facility, once maintained, can be enough to run one of Atlantic’s LNG plants, thereby tremendously benefiting TT.

The equipment was brought in by Ramps Logistics and its vice president of shared services Javed Razack said with the challenges in freight and shipping, the cost of bringing in the equipment was hefty.

“In the current global supply chain environment, we understand that moving things around is quite difficult, it has been like that since covid19, and it continues to be quite difficult given the war in Ukraine.

“The cost factor for the logistics alone would be in the vicinity of US$250,000. Freight has exponentially increased its cost in the last couple of years. Unfortunately, the logistics costs have increased project costs by quite a lot. We’ve done our best to try to keep it down and work with our partners to minimise costs on this project.”

Touchstone said the separators were a major milestone towards establishing the Cascadura facility which was TT’s first onshore liquids-rich natural gas project in 20 years and a significant leap for the development of the oil and gas industry.

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…says Govt working to strengthen State’s investigative, forensic capacities

Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, has cautioned 27 Police ranks and two officers from the Government Analyst-Food & Drug Department, who recently graduated from the first-ever Elementary Prosecutors’ Course, against prioritising securing convictions over advancing justice and ensuring fair trials.

He issued the caution while delivering the feature address at a graduation ceremony held for the ranks at Nations University’s campus.

The rigorous six-month course, a collaborative effort between the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Nations University, was attended by persons holding various ranks, from Assistant Superintendent to Constable. It is aimed at equipping ranks with the necessary procedural and substantive laws related to criminal prosecutions. The purpose and objective of this training is to improve the efficiency of Police ranks in executing their prosecutorial duties.

Emphasising that justice is not a one-way street, Legal Affairs Minister Nandlall said, “Sometimes we feel that only the accused have rights, or only the defendant has rights; that is not true, that is not the law.” According to him, the State and victims of crimes also have an interest in every case.

“The public has an interest in every case. And those interests must be balanced before there can be justice in accordance with the law. As prosecutors, you are ministers of justice. You are not to be concerned about winning, your job is to present the evidence available… [If] you don’t have the evidence, then you don’t have the ability; you are not to fabricate and concoct. You have a serious responsibility as a minister of justice,” the senior counsel advised the graduates.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, as he delivered remarks at the graduation ceremony

As Summary Court Prosecutors, the Policemen and women will be assigned to prosecute matters at the various Magistrates’ Courts where most of the criminal cases are disposed of. In congratulating the graduates on their remarkable achievement, the Attorney General told them that they have chosen a “sound beginning” because they have decided to become part of their country’s legal system — the machinery which administers and enforces the rule of law.

Against this backdrop, he reminded them that the rule of law is the foundation upon which modern society rests, and it is vital to the economic, social, commercial, transformational and other changes taking place in Guyana. “But none of it is possible, and will be possible, unless we have law and order prevailing in this society, unless the rule of law is respected, and unless we have a legal system that delivers justice to our people in accordance with law.”

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He assured the law enforcement officers that the Government is working to improve the State’s investigative and forensic capacities by securing personnel in the areas of crime scene investigation, ballistics, fingerprinting, handwriting expertise, and other forensic facts. These, he noted, are just a fraction of what is planned to strengthen the country’s investigative capacity.

According to the Senior Counsel, one has to presume that the Police and legal institutions are acting upon evidence-based on legal principles. He, therefore, pointed out that “we must allow the systems to work. That is what justice is. Justice is not dependent upon one’s opinion.”

One of the newly trained police prosecutors receiving his certificate

The AG has, accordingly, encouraged the Police ranks to discharge their duties in a manner that would make the public confident that the justice system would protect their rights.

While the Government desires to have a lawyer prosecute cases in the lower courts, Nandlall admitted, this ideal is far from reality; so, in the meanwhile, initiatives like this will be used. He, nevertheless, said the programme offered through Nations University is “far more superior” to the prosecutors’ training programme run by the Police Force.

The programme is internationally recognised, as the course content, assessment, and grading process were vetted by ABMA Education — an awarding organisation in the United Kingdom offering QFQUAL Regulated and professional qualifications in the UK and internationally.

It is being accepted by the University of London (UoL) as an entry requirement into its Bachelor of Laws programme, which is being offered by Nations University.

Last October, the Police Force and Nations University signed the first-of-its-kind Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to undertake prosecutorial training for Police ranks.

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El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el sábado 14 muertos y 354 personas hospitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,624.

Hay 318 adultos hospitalizados y 36 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 23 de junio al 7 de julio de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está a 30.54 por ciento.

Se reportan 14 defunciones adicionales a causa del COVID-19. Unas 354 personas están hospitalizadas; 318 adultos y 36 pediátricos. Al medio día se ofrece una actualización de los datos que incluye el status de vacunación; https://t.co/8KaFLZcGta

— Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico (@desaludpr) July 9, 2022

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