BP starts gas production from Trinidad and Tobago's Angelin project
Wednesday 27 February 2019
BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) today announced first 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 four wells. It
is located 60 kilometres 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 million standard cubic feet a day (mmscfd). Gas flows
from the platform to the existing Serrette hub via a new 21-kilometre
pipeline.
BP Upstream chief executive Bernard Looney said: “This
safe and successful start-up, less than two 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 three 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 first gas from Angelin in the first quarter 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 first major project development supported by the application
of ocean bottom cable (OBC) seismic acquisition with advanced
processing, allowing enhanced imaging of its reservoirs in the Columbus
basin offshore Trinidad.
BP started up two new gas projects
in Trinidad – Juniper and Trinidad Onshore Compression – in 2017 and
recently announced the sanction of another two developments – Cassia
Compression and Matapal – expected to come onstream in 2021 and 2022
respectively. Angelin is BP’s third major upstream project start-up in
2019, following Constellation in the US Gulf of Mexico and the second
stage of the West Nile Delta development offshore Egypt.