From mechanical and technical support companies to housing and transport solutions, to innovations in renewables, the trade show at the Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference 2022 highlighted a range of businesses that displayed their services and networked with each other.
About 60 companies all connected to the energy sector took booths at the conference – the first physical energy conference since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.
With its roots going back to the 1980s, the conference has been considered the most successful and best attended energy sector conference in the Caribbean. In 2020 there were 750 conference delegates and more than 2,000 visitors to the trade show.
Businesses at the conference all took part to expand and develop after having had in one way or another to pivot during the economic downturn as countries battled covid19, and to break new ground as Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the world transition to cleaner energy.
"This is an excellent opportunity for innovative teams to showcase the work that they have done before an audience of industry leaders," said Dwight Mahabir, Energy Chamber chairman.
[caption id="attachment_957780" align="alignnone" width="1024"] TT Energy Chamber chairman Dwight Mahabir speaks about the new opportunities for the energy sector at the energy conference, Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain on Tuesday. - AYANNA KINSALE[/caption]
While touring the trade show on Tuesday, Minister of Energy Stuart Young said there was potential in each company and the conference was timely given the number of initiatives the country is undertaking.
"I am glad to see that we are finally able to see each other after a couple years. We are really hopeful for a successful energy conference and bringing together the right people to have the right types of conversations. Hopefully those conversations will influence policy in some companies and investment options."
Morrow Energy
Since 1987 Morrow Energy has manufactured, installed, operated and maintained hundreds of gas and processing plants, treating more than 200 million cubic feet per day (MCI/d) for customers.
But for the past 20 years the company has been using its expertise in gas treatment to tackle pollution coming out of landfills.
Areyan Stocks-Gonzales, finance and business development manager in Morrow Energy, said the Texas-based company is now hoping to provide the same services to TT landfills.
“We want to meet the people that may help us get to the next step,” he said.
“Every landfill is different so we want to get out there to see what kind of waste is going into the landfills, how much new trash is going into the landfill. Once you know that you can design the facility around it.”
Stocks-Gonzales said anaerobic bacteria in landfills slowly dissolves trash and turns it into several gases, most of which is methane. These gases pollute the air and, to put it simply, make areas stinky.
The company’s state-of-the-art extraction technology will extract the noxious gases that would have been rel
