The energy transition is so all encompassing these days, it seems, that it even reaches into those corners of the world where the oil industry seems to be permanently entwined with a nation's destiny. Trinidad & Tobago is such a nation. British explorer Walter Raleigh once used asphalt from the La Brea Pitch Lake to caulk his ship, having been guided there by Carib tribesmen, and Trinidad crude played a big part in fuelling the British effort in successive world wars. There may be plenty of life left in the Caribbean country's oil and gas sector, but when the Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago revealed concept designs for its new polymer bank notes, the image of the Pointe-a-Pierre oil refinery was quietly dropped, to be replaced by a picture of the ornate parliamentary buildings in Port of Spain.
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