Methanex idles Trinidad's Titan plant as gas supply tightens
A petrochemical heavyweight is pausing a Trinidad methanol plant after failing to lock in a new gas contract, a warning sign for the energy economy.
Methanex has announced it will indefinitely idle its Titan methanol plant in Trinidad and Tobago after failing to secure a new natural-gas contract, a decision that lands squarely on the country’s gas-dependent industrial base. The pause feeds an ongoing national conversation about productivity, the cost of living and how to sustain output as upstream supply tightens. For a diaspora with deep ties to the energy sector, it is a concrete read on where the economy’s pressure points sit.
Source: Trinidad Guardian (June 29, 2026).