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Caribbean bunker supplier Petrotrin confirmed on Tuesday that normal operations have resumed following the passage of Tropical Storm Bret.

On June 19, the company, responding to tropical storm advisories, said it initiated measures designed to ensure the safety of its employees and operations.

Following the passage of the storm, Petrotrin confirmed that it had initiated the deactivation of its incident command centres and begun to normalise its Pointe-a-Pierre, Trinmar and Land North East (LNE) operations.

Petrotrin's refining operation at Pointe-a-Pierre straddles the north-south Atlantic sea lanes and is located in the Gulf of Paria. The company is able to arrange bunker deliveries at Brighton-La Brea, Chaguaramas, Claxton Bay, Point Lisas, Pointe a Pierre, Point Fortin, Port of Spain and Termbladora.

Earlier this year, Petrotrin confirmed the wet lease charter of the tanker Valme B, which arrived in Trinidad on March 29.

The double-hulled Valme B has the capacity to store up to 20,000 barrels of fuel oil, 6,900 barrels of high-sulphur marine gas oil (HSMGO) and 18,800 barrels of low-sulphur marine gas oil (LSMGO). Its pumping rates are 6,500 barrels-per-hour (bph) for fuel oil, 700 bph for HSMGO and 6,500 bph for LSMGO.

The Valme B will be on hire to Petrotrin for a one-year period, initially, while arrangements are being made for purchase of the company's own double-hull bunker barge to replace the Marabella - a single-hull barge that was decommissioned in September 2015.