Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, began operating in Trinidad and Tobago in 1912, marketing gasoline and refined oil products.
In 1956, The Texas Co., as Texaco was then known, acquired a number of companies, including Trinidad Oil Co., a petrochemical plant, oceangoing tankers and other assets.
Trinidad also was made the headquarters for our rapidly expanding Caribbean and Latin American marketing operations.
During the 1960s, Texaco discovered oil in the Navette and Goudron fields and successfully bid on new exploration blocks. The Dolphin Field was discovered in 1976, followed by the Ibis, Kiskidee, Pelican and Oilbird fields offshore Trinidad's east coast in the early 1980s.
After signing a gas sales agreement in 1993, the Dolphin Field was developed with BG as partner and operator of the field. Following the government's acquisition of the Point-a-Pierre Refinery, exploration and production became our major focus in Trinidad and Tobago.
In 1996, natural gas from the Dolphin Field began to supply domestic markets. In 2006, the first natural gas from Dolphin Deep was delivered to the Atlantic LNG Co.'s liquefied natural gas processing facility in Point Fortin, through the Beachfield gas processing facility on the southeast coast of Trinidad.
Updated: April 2012