Loquan is new NGC president

His appointment takes effect from September 1. The NGC made this announcement in a statement yesterday.

The company said its chairman Gerry Brooks is pleased to announce the appointment of Loquan who has over 30 years’ experience in the petrochemical industry.

Brooks said. Loquan’s extensive international experience and knowledge of the global energy sector, will bring a wealth of technical and leadership capability to the company and position NGC to achieve its strategic objectives.

Loquan has held numerous leadership roles in countries including the USA, Europe, Africa and TT. His most recent role was that of CEO, Yara Pilbara in Australia, where he was responsible for restructuring of an existing ammonia facility and integrating the site with a recently-constructed world-scale technical ammonium nitrate plant.

The latter was a joint venture between Yara International and Orica.

A graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) with a B.Sc.

in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Honours) and earned his MBA at Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is also a Distinguished Alumni of the UWI.

Loquan began his career in the energy sector in 1982 as a process engineer at Trinidad Nitrogen Co. Ltd. He moved on to various leadership positions before being appointed as the first local President of Hydro Agri Trinidad (now Yara Trinidad Ltd) in 2002. In 2009, he was appointed as President, Upstream, Business Development for Angola/ Sub-Sahara Africa for Yara International before moving to Australia in 2012.