Petrotrin / NiQuan plant - Mothballed

[bluefete]

What due diligence? The PP came in and proclaimed the plant as scrap and sold it for a song. Gill got his investors and their expertise and run the plant into the ground. There aren’t much ppl with experience with plants like this esp in this part of the world. Hopefully the mistakes made can be documented so that whoever follows can do better.

Timelines are important here.

The PP never sold the plant!

NiQuan Energy, LLC began its journey when Ainsley Gill, the Founder and Group Chief Visionary Officer, registered the Company in the United States in 2008. What started as an energy consulting company morphed into something that would truly make a difference in the world.

What did Gill know as far back as 2008 when PNM was in office, to set up Niquan Energy USA?

In 2012, the Company acquired its’ first gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Realizing that GTL, made from the cleanest of the hydrocarbons, could contribute to a cleaner energy future, Ainsley steered the Company towards exclusively becoming an owner / operator in the gas-to-liquids business.

Gill is saying in 2012 he ACQUIRED the GTL plant. Check the company's website. Wasn't that under Tantie Kams? But yet, an official sale with money did not happen until 2018.


https://www.niquanenergy.com/about-us

https://www.niquanenergy.com/content/executive-team

After benefitting from circa US$1 billion in investments, NiQuan is the proud parent of a safely operating, commercially proven, clean energy plant with a nameplate capacity of 2400 barrels per day.



Ah tired. I gone.

[eliteauto]

When allyuh done, someone tell me how to get alil cobo sweat lobbying wuk nah. Ah lil 2 years self. Me and ZR could partner up

[pugboy]

would like to hear this chap talk
he have to be a bs expert extraordinaire to engage such a wide range of investors

i gather rowlee just went along with him as he inherited him from manning

[pugboy]

And allyuh want to lockup markos and dss man when this man get to play with this level of money

[Habit7]

What due diligence? The PP came in and proclaimed the plant as scrap and sold it for a song. Gill got his investors and their expertise and run the plant into the ground. There aren’t much ppl with experience with plants like this esp in this part of the world. Hopefully the mistakes made can be documented so that whoever follows can do better.

Timelines are important here.

The PP never sold the plant!

NiQuan Energy, LLC began its journey when Ainsley Gill, the Founder and Group Chief Visionary Officer, registered the Company in the United States in 2008. What started as an energy consulting company morphed into something that would truly make a difference in the world.

What did Gill know as far back as 2008 when PNM was in office, to set up Niquan Energy USA?

In 2012, the Company acquired its’ first gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Realizing that GTL, made from the cleanest of the hydrocarbons, could contribute to a cleaner energy future, Ainsley steered the Company towards exclusively becoming an owner / operator in the gas-to-liquids business.

Gill is saying in 2012 he ACQUIRED the GTL plant. Check the company's website. Wasn't that under Tantie Kams? But yet, an official sale with money did not happen until 2018.


https://www.niquanenergy.com/about-us

https://www.niquanenergy.com/content/executive-team

After benefitting from circa US$1 billion in investments, NiQuan is the proud parent of a safely operating, commercially proven, clean energy plant with a nameplate capacity of 2400 barrels per day.



Ah tired. I gone.

Try your disinformation else where.
Unc advertised it.

Is Rowley them sold it for CHICKEN FEED.

Pnm does do business like Crak addicts. Screenshot_2024-04-17-14-11-47-749_com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.jpg

You clearly didn't read the official statement I posted so then let me put it in front of your eyes again.

By letter dated April 16, 2012, to the Receiver, NiQuan Energy LLC submitted a proposal in response to the RFP, and by letter dated July 6, 2012, the Receiver notified NiQuan Energy LLC that it had been selected as a prospective investor. In October 2014, the Petrotrin Board approved the Receiver’s recommendation of NiQuan as the preferred investor.

The Receiver then entered into negotiations with NiQuan on commercial terms for the acquisition of plant. Arising from the negotiations, a price of US$35M comprising an initial payment of US$10M and preference shares to the value of US$25M payable in two (2) equal tranches was proposed. NiQuan reached final agreement on the commercial terms and all other outstanding issues on or about August 5, 2015. The proposal was accepted by the Board of Directors and the
transaction was subsequently sanctioned by the Minister of Finance, (Corporation Sole).

https://www.energy.gov.tt/wp-content/up ... roject.pdf

The sale was only finalised in 2018 because they were still negotiating the price of gas. But the price of the asset was already agreed upon before 7th Sept 2015.

Even if you read the first article in your google search it too commented on an injunction after Niquan being chosen in 2012 https://trinidadexpress.com/opinion/edi ... 3.amp.html

Changing the colour of your font doesn’t make it more right or more intelligent.

[pugboy]

so who are the current “lobbyists” we paying for?

When allyuh done, someone tell me how to get alil cobo sweat lobbying wuk nah. Ah lil 2 years self. Me and ZR could partner up

[sMASH]

WGtl put DSS to shame.

The board names was just fill the spaces on the company forms, while the investment capital got "redistributed".

And jess like beetham waste water treatment, clico, toruba stadium.. Let. Govt write it off.


Wonders if gill et alia does call Rowley directly like av?

[pugboy]

quite possibly
them monies does have to circle back under the table in govt deals
don’t quote me on it though before somebody ask me for video evidence of that

[sMASH]

quite possibly
them monies does have to circle back under the table in govt deals
don’t quote me on it though before somebody ask me for video evidence of that

Ah man say, even the person picking up the fone in office aksin for ah ting.


Budget for commercial diving gear and running scuba.


Never wondered how so many blow outs and accident dies happen on givt affiliated activities, but not on a BP bg Yara etc...

And budget on a givt site prolly dwarfing the private sector

[matix]

quite possibly
them monies does have to circle back under the table in govt deals
don’t quote me on it though before somebody ask me for video evidence of that

Ah man say, even the person picking up the fone in office aksin for ah ting.


Budget for commercial diving gear and running scuba.


Never wondered how so many blow outs and accident dies happen on givt affiliated activities, but not on a BP bg Yara etc...

And budget on a givt site prolly dwarfing the private sector

Facts, privately we can build a community center with pool for 10 million easily. If the government did it. 100 million

[Mmoney607]

This woman was the port chairman when the seabridge collapse and republic throw her out the other day as well

[The_Honourable]

So allyuh miss out the part that Niquan took Petrotrin and the Receiver to court in 2013 for the GTL plant? Then legal wranglings for two years, banked on a government change in 2015, months later got an agreement in 2016, then get thru in 2018 where a state company was created to solely service niquan the gas?

[pugboy]

so it might officially be a private non state company but was well passed with govt party hacks

[Habit7]

So allyuh miss out the part that Niquan took Petrotrin and the Receiver to court in 2013 for the GTL plant? Then legal wranglings for two years, banked on a government change in 2015, months later got an agreement in 2016, then get thru in 2018 where a state company was created to solely service niquan the gas?

No true

Petrotrin selected Niquan in 2012 but was still talking with other ppl. Niquan took them to court so that they only talked to them. Days before PP was voted, their board finalised all the commercial terms for the asset. The only thing PNM had to do was agree with the gas price which I sure they delayed because prices were falling 2015-2017. Everything concluded in 2018.

By letter dated April 16, 2012, to the Receiver, NiQuan Energy LLC submitted a proposal in response to the RFP, and by letter dated July 6, 2012, the Receiver notified NiQuan Energy LLC that it had been selected as a prospective investor. In October 2014, the Petrotrin Board approved the Receiver’s recommendation of NiQuan as the preferred investor.

The Receiver then entered into negotiations with NiQuan on commercial terms for the acquisition of plant. Arising from the negotiations, a price of US$35M comprising an initial payment of US$10M and preference shares to the value of US$25M payable in two (2) equal tranches was proposed. NiQuan reached final agreement on the commercial terms and all other outstanding issues on or about August 5, 2015. The proposal was accepted by the Board of Directors and the
transaction was subsequently sanctioned by the Minister of Finance, (Corporation Sole).

https://www.energy.gov.tt/wp-content/up ... roject.pdf

[sMASH]

So allyuh miss out the part that Niquan took Petrotrin and the Receiver to court in 2013 for the GTL plant? Then legal wranglings for two years, banked on a government change in 2015, months later got an agreement in 2016, then get thru in 2018 where a state company was created to solely service niquan the gas?

No true

Petrotrin selected Niquan in 2012 but was still talking with other ppl. Niquan took them to court so that they only talked to them. Days before PP was voted, their board finalised all the commercial terms for the asset. The only thing PNM had to do was agree with the gas price which I sure they delayed because prices were falling 2015-2017. Everything concluded in 2018.

By letter dated April 16, 2012, to the Receiver, NiQuan Energy LLC submitted a proposal in response to the RFP, and by letter dated July 6, 2012, the Receiver notified NiQuan Energy LLC that it had been selected as a prospective investor. In October 2014, the Petrotrin Board approved the Receiver’s recommendation of NiQuan as the preferred investor.

The Receiver then entered into negotiations with NiQuan on commercial terms for the acquisition of plant. Arising from the negotiations, a price of US$35M comprising an initial payment of US$10M and preference shares to the value of US$25M payable in two (2) equal tranches was proposed. NiQuan reached final agreement on the commercial terms and all other outstanding issues on or about August 5, 2015. The proposal was accepted by the Board of Directors and the
transaction was subsequently sanctioned by the Minister of Finance, (Corporation Sole).

https://www.energy.gov.tt/wp-content/up ... roject.pdf

Petrotrin back then was still pnm packed. Jess cause one election win doesn't mean the whole place convert.



Remember that there was petrotrin/gortt vs Malcom jones
Where faris represented petrotrin/state and Malcom Jones was represented by Stuart young.


Left to right, top to bottom back to front. Is pnm country

[wing]

So allyuh miss out the part that Niquan took Petrotrin and the Receiver to court in 2013 for the GTL plant? Then legal wranglings for two years, banked on a government change in 2015, months later got an agreement in 2016, then get thru in 2018 where a state company was created to solely service niquan the gas?

No true

Petrotrin selected Niquan in 2012 but was still talking with other ppl. Niquan took them to court so that they only talked to them. Days before PP was voted, their board finalised all the commercial terms for the asset. The only thing PNM had to do was agree with the gas price which I sure they delayed because prices were falling 2015-2017. Everything concluded in 2018.

By letter dated April 16, 2012, to the Receiver, NiQuan Energy LLC submitted a proposal in response to the RFP, and by letter dated July 6, 2012, the Receiver notified NiQuan Energy LLC that it had been selected as a prospective investor. In October 2014, the Petrotrin Board approved the Receiver’s recommendation of NiQuan as the preferred investor.

The Receiver then entered into negotiations with NiQuan on commercial terms for the acquisition of plant. Arising from the negotiations, a price of US$35M comprising an initial payment of US$10M and preference shares to the value of US$25M payable in two (2) equal tranches was proposed. NiQuan reached final agreement on the commercial terms and all other outstanding issues on or about August 5, 2015. The proposal was accepted by the Board of Directors and the
transaction was subsequently sanctioned by the Minister of Finance, (Corporation Sole).

https://www.energy.gov.tt/wp-content/up ... roject.pdf

Petrotrin back then was still pnm packed. Jess cause one election win doesn't mean the whole place convert.



Remember that there was petrotrin/gortt vs Malcom jones
Where faris represented petrotrin/state and Malcom Jones was represented by Stuart young.


Left to right, top to bottom back to front. Is pnm country

Leave and go over to Gaza. You could live and fight from the river to the sea. It have no PNM there.

[sMASH]

So allyuh miss out the part that Niquan took Petrotrin and the Receiver to court in 2013 for the GTL plant? Then legal wranglings for two years, banked on a government change in 2015, months later got an agreement in 2016, then get thru in 2018 where a state company was created to solely service niquan the gas?

No true

Petrotrin selected Niquan in 2012 but was still talking with other ppl. Niquan took them to court so that they only talked to them. Days before PP was voted, their board finalised all the commercial terms for the asset. The only thing PNM had to do was agree with the gas price which I sure they delayed because prices were falling 2015-2017. Everything concluded in 2018.

By letter dated April 16, 2012, to the Receiver, NiQuan Energy LLC submitted a proposal in response to the RFP, and by letter dated July 6, 2012, the Receiver notified NiQuan Energy LLC that it had been selected as a prospective investor. In October 2014, the Petrotrin Board approved the Receiver’s recommendation of NiQuan as the preferred investor.

The Receiver then entered into negotiations with NiQuan on commercial terms for the acquisition of plant. Arising from the negotiations, a price of US$35M comprising an initial payment of US$10M and preference shares to the value of US$25M payable in two (2) equal tranches was proposed. NiQuan reached final agreement on the commercial terms and all other outstanding issues on or about August 5, 2015. The proposal was accepted by the Board of Directors and the
transaction was subsequently sanctioned by the Minister of Finance, (Corporation Sole).

https://www.energy.gov.tt/wp-content/up ... roject.pdf

Petrotrin back then was still pnm packed. Jess cause one election win doesn't mean the whole place convert.



Remember that there was petrotrin/gortt vs Malcom jones
Where faris represented petrotrin/state and Malcom Jones was represented by Stuart young.


Left to right, top to bottom back to front. Is pnm country

Leave and go over to Gaza. You could live and fight from the river to the sea. It have no PNM there.

Even if you arrest and charge netanyahu, remove him from the system, the WHOOOOOOLE system is right wing extremist
And you will continue to have settler colonial subjugation.

Even if u put unc in govt, the wholeee ministry and board and management is pnm,

[bluefete]

so who are the current “lobbyists” we paying for?

When allyuh done, someone tell me how to get alil cobo sweat lobbying wuk nah. Ah lil 2 years self. Me and ZR could partner up

Not sure if they still represent:

The Group DC LLC, the US lobbyist firm, which undertook several trade and investment promotion initiatives for the T&T Government last year, identified opportunities and strategies to engage multinational corporations to potentially increase commercial shipping and drydock construction here.

Finance Minister Colm Imbert outlined the work the firm did in 2018 in response to questions from Naparima MP Rodney Charles in Parliament on Friday.

The firm has been a source of Opposition queries since it was hired by Government in 2016 for $14.7 million to provide lobbying services. It was reported that the agreement was for two years at a rate of US $1.2 million annually. Quarterly instalments were to be paid.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who defended the hiring of the firm, had said the decision was taken in 2015 and he knew owner Arthur “Art” Collins very well. He said the firm was chosen since “we know them and are satisfied they can do the job.”
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/imbert- ... 3c1fe7fc87

https://thegroupdc.com/meet-the-team/art-collins/

Art Collins, Chairman

Art Collins is Founder and Chairman of theGROUP, a government relations and strategic communications consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. theGROUP is the successor company to Public Private Partnership, Inc., which Collins founded in 1989 in Tallahassee, Florida. Collins has more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor and strategist providing counsel to corporate leaders, heads of state and their governments, and non-profit executives and their boards. His areas of expertise include financial services, trade, energy, information technology, healthcare, consumer products, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, and national security.

Collins began his professional career as a systems engineer with the IBM Corporation, where he counseled elected officials and state government executives on management efficiency and the delivery of vital services through emerging technology. He also served as a legislative director within the Florida House of Representatives and as an insurance regulator and legislative director for the Florida Department of Insurance.

His private-sector governance experience includes his service on the boards of three public companies. Collins is a member of the Board of Directors of Aflac Incorporated, a leading provider of supplemental insurance within Japan and the U.S, and KB Home, one of the largest and most recognized home builders in the United States operating in 42 markets across eight states. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of RLJ Lodging Trust, a self-advised, publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on acquiring premium-branded, focused-service and compact full-service hotels.

As part of his commitment to culture and the arts as well as global public policy and diplomacy, Collins serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and also Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading foreign policy organization, served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization, and served on the board of Meridian International Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan diplomacy center that connects leaders through global leadership.

Collins’ public involvement also extends to other leadership roles. He is Chairman of the Morehouse School of Medicine Board of Trustees in Atlanta, Georgia, and he served on Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees, where he was elected its first Chairman. His previous public service includes his appointments to the Florida Prepaid College Board, Florida Consumer Council, Florida Small and Minority Business Advisory Council, Florida Governor’s Business Advisory Council on Education, and as Chairman of the Tallahassee Leon County Planning Commission.

Collins serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute, served as a Senior Political Strategist for the 2008 Obama for America Presidential Campaign and was appointed a Public Liaison for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. In 2004, he was a Senior Advisor to the Kerry Presidential Campaign, and in 1990 he served as Campaign Manager for the late Florida Supreme Court Justice, Leander J. Shaw, Jr.

A graduate of Florida A&M University’s School of Business and Industry with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance, Collins was awarded an honorary doctorate from the university in 2009. He has studied at the University of Miami School of Law and abroad at the University of Montpellier in Montpellier, France.

Collins resides in McLean, Virginia with his wife, youngest son, and daughter.

[bluefete]

UPDATE: Just found this:

Government extends Washington contract
by

Shaliza Hassanali
1549 days ago
20200128



The Government has once again retained the services of lobbyist group DC LLCC at a cost of US$1.2 million annually to access the corridors of power in decision-making in Washington DC.

The revelation was made yesterday by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in the House of Representatives, who was at the time responding to a question from Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

The Opposition Leader asked the PM about further payments, inclusive of amounts made to group DC LLCC after the expiry of the initial contract which ended in October 2018, as well as the nature of those services provided.

According to PM Rowley, the Government of T&T maintains active engagement in Washington using our embassy there “and a lobbyist who worked for the Government of T&T.”

That contract, Rowley said ended in 2018.

“Following the expiration of that contract Cabinet agreed to a further engagement of this company DC LLCC.”

Rowley said, “the arrangement is that we pay quarterly of US$300,000 and we receive constant reports which are extremely valuable particular at this time.”

In October 2016, the Government entered into a US$2.4 million (over TT$16 million) agreement with the group to provide lobbying services for this country.

Quizzed by Persad-Bissessar if those services required him to ring the bell at Nasdaq at the Stock Market in New York last year, the PM said “contrary to the misinformation that has been presented to the country by the UNC that we paid millions of dollars for Nasdaq and now implicating the group DC LLCC with Nasdaq. I want to put on the record that the group DC LLCC had absolutely nothing to do with our involvement and my presence at Nasdaq. And I hope that the misinformation and mischief would end there.”

Pressed as to what T&T stands to benefit from retaining DC LLCC’s services, Rowley said it would involve T&T retaining access to the corridors of power in decision making in Washington.

Only recently US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a visit to Jamaica and met with some Caribbean leaders. However, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados were among a number of Caribbean countries not invited to that meeting.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley as chairman of Caricom accused the US of trying to divide the region. A charge denied by Pompeo.

A mere handful of the 15 Caricom nations—the Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and St Lucia—were part of the discussions, along with the Dominican Republic.

[pugboy]

so what have they lobbied for us?
was dragon gas part of their lobby?

[maj. tom]

Lobbying for nomination and selection of honorary degrees is a normal thing in USA.

[bluefete]

Lobbying for nomination and selection of honorary degrees is a normal thing in USA.

BRUTAL!

[Habit7]

So allyuh miss out the part that Niquan took Petrotrin and the Receiver to court in 2013 for the GTL plant? Then legal wranglings for two years, banked on a government change in 2015, months later got an agreement in 2016, then get thru in 2018 where a state company was created to solely service niquan the gas?

No true

Petrotrin selected Niquan in 2012 but was still talking with other ppl. Niquan took them to court so that they only talked to them. Days before PP was voted, their board finalised all the commercial terms for the asset. The only thing PNM had to do was agree with the gas price which I sure they delayed because prices were falling 2015-2017. Everything concluded in 2018.

By letter dated April 16, 2012, to the Receiver, NiQuan Energy LLC submitted a proposal in response to the RFP, and by letter dated July 6, 2012, the Receiver notified NiQuan Energy LLC that it had been selected as a prospective investor. In October 2014, the Petrotrin Board approved the Receiver’s recommendation of NiQuan as the preferred investor.

The Receiver then entered into negotiations with NiQuan on commercial terms for the acquisition of plant. Arising from the negotiations, a price of US$35M comprising an initial payment of US$10M and preference shares to the value of US$25M payable in two (2) equal tranches was proposed. NiQuan reached final agreement on the commercial terms and all other outstanding issues on or about August 5, 2015. The proposal was accepted by the Board of Directors and the
transaction was subsequently sanctioned by the Minister of Finance, (Corporation Sole).

https://www.energy.gov.tt/wp-content/up ... roject.pdf

Petrotrin back then was still pnm packed. Jess cause one election win doesn't mean the whole place convert.



Remember that there was petrotrin/gortt vs Malcom jones
Where faris represented petrotrin/state and Malcom Jones was represented by Stuart young.


Left to right, top to bottom back to front. Is pnm country

The sale of Niquan is not a role for career Petrotrin employees. The sale was handled by the board of directors. The board are handpicked by the then PM KPB. The chairman of the board was Lindsay Gillette, former UNC Minister of Energy.

The legal action taken against GoRTT vs Malcolm Jones would be AG Anand Ramlogan vs Malcolm Jones. Faris Al Rawi was an Opposition Senator from 2010-2020. Petrotrin was represented by KC Vincent Nelson, Gerald Ramdeen and Varun Debideen, not Faris.

When you write this chupidness, you intend to convince anyone?

[sMASH]

All of a sudden we forget about Vincent Nelson and advising alwaris to drop the suit against Malcom jones.
Then turning around to sue all alwaris.

[pugboy]

how much ting yuh expect us to remember?

All of a sudden we forget about Vincent Nelson and advising alwaris to drop the suit against Malcom jones.
Then turning around to sue all alwaris.

Screenshot_2024-04-26-11-38-22-023_org.mozilla.firefox.jpg

[Habit7]

All of a sudden we forget about Vincent Nelson and advising alwaris to drop the suit against Malcom jones.
Then turning around to sue all alwaris.

Screenshot_2024-04-26-11-38-22-023_org.mozilla.firefox.jpg

Cool, so when was Stuart Young Malcolm Jones' lawyer?

[CB Style]

how much ting yuh expect us to remember?

All of a sudden we forget about Vincent Nelson and advising alwaris to drop the suit against Malcom jones.
Then turning around to sue all alwaris.

Screenshot_2024-04-26-11-38-22-023_org.mozilla.firefox.jpg

No need to remember or keep track when we have the PNM cockroach here to supply us with handpicked newspaper clippings from the balisier archives.

[wing]

how much ting yuh expect us to remember?

All of a sudden we forget about Vincent Nelson and advising alwaris to drop the suit against Malcom jones.
Then turning around to sue all alwaris.

Screenshot_2024-04-26-11-38-22-023_org.mozilla.firefox.jpg

No need to remember or keep track when we have the PNM cockroach here to supply us with handpicked newspaper clippings from the balisier archives.

Is that you kickstart?

[CB Style]

how much ting yuh expect us to remember?

All of a sudden we forget about Vincent Nelson and advising alwaris to drop the suit against Malcom jones.
Then turning around to sue all alwaris.

Screenshot_2024-04-26-11-38-22-023_org.mozilla.firefox.jpg

No need to remember or keep track when we have the PNM cockroach here to supply us with handpicked newspaper clippings from the balisier archives.

Is that you kickstart?

You studying kickstart when you should be studying why they have to assign the next one back to tuner because you wasn't doing too well. C'mon winglet, you need to do better.

[sMASH]

All of a sudden we forget about Vincent Nelson and advising alwaris to drop the suit against Malcom jones.
Then turning around to sue all alwaris.

Screenshot_2024-04-26-11-38-22-023_org.mozilla.firefox.jpg

Cool, so when was Stuart Young Malcolm Jones' lawyer?

I think that was in the privy council documents.

I Remeber seeing it, can't Remeber where exactly.


Deffienty would have posted that many moons ago. It will be wayyyyyy back in one of these threads.