Port of Spain, February 27 - Neftegaz.RU. BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) announced 1st gas production from its Angelin development. The project was delivered on time and under budget.
The Angelin development, originally discovered by the El Diablo well in 1995, includes a new platform and 4 wells. It is located 60 km off the south-east coast of Trinidad in a water-depth of approximately 65 metres. The new platform, BPTT’s 15th installation offshore Trinidad & Tobago, has a production capacity of 600 mmscfd. Gas flows from the platform to the existing Serrette hub via a new 21-km pipeline.
BP Upstream chief executive Bernard Looney said: «This safe and successful start-up, less than 2 years after sanction, is a credit to our BP teams and contractors. Angelin is BP’s 22nd new upstream project to come online in just over 3 years and reflects our commitment to do what said we would, safely and competitively.»
BPTT regional president Claire Fitzpatrick added: «BPTT is proud to deliver our promise of 1st gas from Angelin in the Q1 of 2019. Angelin is the next step in fulfilling our long-term development plan in Trinidad and will play an important role in enabling us to deliver our production commitments, which could potentially include up to $8 billion of investment in several more major projects over the next 10 years.»
Angelin is BPTT’s 1st major project development supported by the application of ocean bottom cable seismic acquisition with advanced processing, allowing enhanced imaging of its reservoirs in the Columbus basin offshore Trinidad.
BP started up 2 new gas projects in Trinidad – Juniper and Trinidad Onshore Compression – in 2017 and recently announced the sanction of another 2 developments – Cassia Compression and Matapal – expected to come onstream in 2021 and 2022.
