Mark Loquan

Mark Loquan

• President The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago

Mr Mark Loquan is a graduate of The University of the West Indies with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Honours). He earned his MBA at Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is also a Distinguished Alumni of The UWI.

Mr. Loquan has over 30 years’ experience in the petrochemical industry. He has held numerous leadership roles in countries including the USA, Europe, Africa and Trinidad and Tobago. 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.

In 1982, Mr Loquan began his career in the energy sector 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.

On September 01st 2016, Mr Loquan was appointed President of The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC).