State Minister in the Ministry of Energy and Mining Laurence Broderick (centre) speaking with Dr. Ruth Potopsingh, group managing director of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (left), and Kathryn Phipps, chairperson of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), at the launch of Jamaica’s Second Formal Licensing Round for oil and gas exploration licences, at the Geological Society of London on Monday, March 1. Jamaica opened the second formal licensing bid round for oil and gas exploration, with a seminar in London that publicised new seismic data which indicate very positive geological prospects for oil and gas find both on and offshore. (JIS photo)