Oil in Trinidad and Tobago

A small country on the southern fringe of the Caribbean Sea — north and east of South America's Venezuela — has multiple locations of oil fields. Most of the oil fields are in the southern part of Trinidad, the largest island of TRINIDAD and TOBAGO. There are also several offshore oil wells in the sea, with names like Poui, Samaan, and Soldado; oil pipelines transport oil from most of the offshore wells to the mainland. For example, a pipeline runs eastward from the offshore Soldado well, then crosses the Irois Bay, and then reaches several communities. There is a pipeline that runs mostly through land, from a coastal town (Pointe-à-Pierre) down to Palo Seco; then it goes east and is joined with wells off the east coast.