Minister of Energy and Mines Pelegrin Castillo has ordered an inventory and digital databasing of all related to hydrocarbon matters in the Dominican Republic. Information from explorations carried out over the years is being compiled in order to give an overview of the state of explorations and assess the potential of the country. Castillo also called for the contracting of an external advisor to the Ministry on hydrocarbon matters to assist in the defining of a national hydrocarbons strategy and development plan. He appointed a commission at the Ministry headed by deputy minister Alberto Reyes, the director of the National Geological Service, deputy director of Hydrocarbons at the Mining Agency to carry out the inventory and assessment in 10 days of all existing information on the subject in the private and public entities.
Updated onUpdated on Jul 21, 2014 at 5:47 PM