Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited

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The Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited (ECGPC) is a joint public/private sector company charged with the initiative of building a LNG 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 northern Trinidad, northward to other islands including:

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 next ratio points to make it feasible to go farther would be The Bahamas, Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Miami, Florida (where it would then tie into the North American grid) delivering Gas directly from Trinidad and Tobago.

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.