AZARD ALI
The Energy Ministry is reviewing the contents of a second audit report on A&V Drilling’s output to state-owned Petrotrin. The exercise comes as A&V defends itself against findings, also in an audit, that it overstated crude oil production at its wells which have since been seized.
Energy Minister Franklin Khan told Parliament last Friday that this second document is being investigated, after A&V’s attorney Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj SC submitted a copy to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
Maharaj told media recently the supplemental report was dated August 21, 2017 and followed an initial audit four days before on August 17 which examined crude oil discrepancies….
