164 Engineering Response to Climate Change
Technical assessments of the vulnerability of soon to be installed infra-
structure to expected rise in sea level is now essential. Due to the growth
of the oil and gas industry and expected rise in sea level, an oil renery in
Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean Sea was required to move its port
facility from its location at Point Fortin to a site on Irois Bay in the Gulf of
Paria. Singh et al. (2011) reported an investigation in which coastal erosion
was evaluated for different SLR scenarios for stabilization of the shore slope
at the facility. It was recommended that the port facility be constructed to
account for a 1.5 m rise in the sea level.
4.5.8 Impacts on Small Islands
As a sizeable fract