Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited

The Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited (ECGPC) is a joint public/private sector company charged with the initiative of building a natural gas distribution network for the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands.

The proposed pipeline is to build a 600 mile long undersea pipeline stretching from the generation point in Tobago, northward to other islands including:

*Barbados,
*Saint Lucia,
*Dominica,In addition to both of the French territories:
*Martinique,
*Guadeloupe.

Both of which are considered anchor markets because Martinique and Guadeloupe give the pipeline a good ratio between total population served over the total distance.

The idea had its genesis with Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who announced in his annual budget that his country was going to undertake one of the largest civil engineering project in the Caribbean region.

External links

* [http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=31081 Gov't seeks gas pipeline agreement]
* [http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=30964 Barbados and Trinidad agree on importing gas by pipeline]
* [http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntl32626.htm Caribbean fact sheet]
* [http://www.sidsnet.org/archives/energy-newswire/2003/msg00045.html Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela mull over Caribbean-US natural gas pipeline]
* [http://www.nationnews.com/story/302781854886082.php Natural gas for all soon]
* [http://www.nationnews.com/life/307456471551427.php Importing natural gas a 'good move']
* [http://www.nationnews.com/life/307456471728549.php Thompson tells why gas line favoured]
* [http://www.nationnews.com/life/344574183376995.php Kellman: Make provision for B'dos oil]
* [http://www.nationnews.com/story/307463717878130.php 13 000 more homes to get natural gas]
* [http://www.cbc.bb/content/view/10813/10/ 177 miles of gas pipe from Tobago to Barbados]
* [http://www.chamber.org.tt/committee/ttcicp.pdf A PDF slideshow on the ECGP]