CEW 2026 Conference Agenda

Suriname Investment Showcase:

Updates on block awards, infrastructure and local content

Guyana Investment Showcase:

Focused on future FPSOs, logistics expansion and investment entry points.

Trinidad & Tobago Showcase:

LNG infrastructure upgrades, gas industrialization and offshore collaboration with

neighboring countries

Drawing from Guyana's rapid success and Trinidad & Tobago's century of experience, we examine how emerging markets in the Caribbean can maximize local value creation.

A flagship dialogue exploring cross-Atlantic partnerships, financing, and energy trade drawing on experience from multilateral development finance institutions fostering partnerships with key energy markets to fast-track industrialisation as well as development of critical infrastructure and digital payment systems. 

Opening Keynote Address: H.E. Melvin Boua, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business and Cooperation, Republic of Suriname

Shared Prosperity Through Energy Integration

Industry leadership outline how cross-border alignment can accelerate regional

investment and infrastructure

This session tackles the balancing act of any successful local content strategy: creating legislation that attracts international investment while ensuring meaningful local participation.

A regional geological and prospectivity evaluation was undertaken to support the ongoing mandate of the Grenada Hydrocarbons Technical Working Group. The study area includes the Grenada Basin, positioned between the eastern margin of the Aves Ridge and the western flank of the Lesser Antilles Arc, along with the western sector of the Tobago Trough, together covering approximately 28,000 km². Within this extensive area, only a single well has been drilled to date, leaving the basins largely underexplored, with up to 12km of sedimentary sequence to be evaluated.

The proximity of proven gas accumulations, in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, demonstrates the existence of an active petroleum system within the Middle Miocene to Pliocene sections. Seismic interpretation ,including DHIs such as amplitude anomalies and gas chimneys, provides clear evidence that the play extends into the western Tobago Basin within Grenada’s maritime boundary.

Deeper possible plays, in the Eocene and Oligocene sections, have not been tested in the region yet. The technical evaluation suggests that a significant quantity of clastic sediment reached the Grenada Basin and Tobago Trough during these periods of time, likely derived from the ancient proto-Maracaibo River. Multiple channels, turbidites, fan and mass transport complex have been identified in the recent analysis presented.

Although, definitive evidence for thermogenic source rocks within the Grenada Basin and Tobago Trough remains uncertain, the occurrence of Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene source rocks documented in adjacent regions combined with thick sedimentary sequences suggests favourable conditions for their deposition and potential hydrocarbon generation.

The technical evaluation enhances the understanding of Grenada’s petroleum system and demonstrates the potential for prospective hydrocarbon resources.