BP takes its platform and goes

In a news release posted on its website yesterday, McDermott stated the project was awarded following completion of the multiphase engineering which included the prefront- end engineering design and pre-execution engineering. The contractor’s team in Houston led the engineering and execution planning, supported by its engineering centre in Chennai, India.

“McDermott will design, procure, fabricate, transport, install and commission a six-slot well-head platform and 13-mi (21-km) 26-in.

(66-cm) subsea pipeline, using its project management and engineering team in Houston,” the company stated.

The company’s fabrication complex in Altamira, Mexico, will construct the 992- ton (900-metric ton) four-legged main pile jacket and 1,323-ton (1,200-metric ton) fourdeck topsides, with the DLV 2000 subsequently installing the platform and pipeline.

The DLV 2000 is a derrick lay vessel which is equipped with multiple cranes for construction, pipeline and deep-water installation.

The development will include four wells and will have a production capacity of about 600 MMcf/d. Gas from Angelin will flow to the Serrette platform hub via a new 21-km (13- mi) pipeline. Drilling is due to begin in third quarter in 2018, and first gas from the facility is expected in the first quarter of 2019. The Angelin project is located approximately 60 kilometres off the south east coast of Trinidad in water depth of about 65 meters and was originally discovered by the El Diablo well in 1995 and appraised by the La Novia well in 2006.

BP recently announced two significant gas discoveries offshore Trinidad with the Savannah and Macadamia exploration wells which unlocked 2 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas.

In April, an incensed Roget lashed BP’s decision not to have the platform constructed in La Brea, saying, “Take your platform and go! We are not prepared to have any type of construction in an environment that is unsafe, unhealthy and void of good industrial relations practice.” McDermott International has operations in the Americas, Middle East, the Caspian Sea and the Pacific Rim.