bpTT announces new project

In a media statement, BP observed that full start-up was expected to take place over the next few months and when fully on stream, the onshore compression facility would have the “potential to deliver approximately 200 million standard cubic feet of gas per day.” “The facility is expected to improve production capacity by increasing production from low-pressure wells in bpTT’s existing acreage in the Columbus Basin using an additional inlet compressor at the Point Fortin Atlantic LNG plant,” the company stated.

BP upstream business chief executive Bernard Looney said the project had been “delivered ontime and on-budget” and formed a major part of BP’s plan to bring, “500,000 barrels a day of new production capacity online by the end of 2017 and paves the way for Juniper, our other major project startup in Trinidad and Tobago this year.” BP regional president Norman Christie said: “bpTT thanks and congratulates the government, contractors, partners and other stakeholders that came together to safely bring the TROC project to mechanical completion. The TROC project is a clear example of bpTT, the government and many key players in the oil and gas industry cooperating to improve production capacity, which will benefit both the petrochemical plants and Atlantic.

“Though start-up will be phased, we anticipate an improvement in gas production in 2017 as a result of TROC and the planned start-up of Juniper later this year.” The plant is 100 percent funded and owned by bpTT while Atlantic LNG will serve as the operator.

The project was sanctioned in July following agreements between Atlantic, the National Gas Company and other upstream operators.

bpTT operates in 904,000 acres off Trinidad’s east coast and has 13 offshore platforms and two onshore processing facilities.

bpTT’s Juniper facility, which is expected to produce gas later this year, will take gas from the Corallita and Lantana fields located 50 miles off the south east coast of Trinidad in water-depth of approximately 360 feet. Drilling of the five sub sea Juniper wells by the Diamond Ocean Victory semi-submersible rig commenced in May 2015 and gas from Juniper will flow to the Mahogany B hub via a new ten kilometre in-field flow line which was installed in 2016.