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Oil production and refining have constituted the most important sector of the local economy for more than 60 years, supplanting sugar and coca sometime in the 1920s. World-scale ammonia, methanol and urea plants are also significant players on the scene, operating out of the 800 hectare (2000-acre) Point Lisas Industrial Estate, on the island's west coast. Trinidad and Tobago is the second largest exporter of ammonia in the world today, as well as being an important contributed in the international methanol market... General and travel information for the twin island country of Trinidad and Tobago.