BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) has announced the start-up of the Trinidad Onshore Compression (TROC) project, which is expected to ramp up to full production over the next few months.
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The TROC is one of the seven prominent upstream projects that the company has planned to bring online this year.
This onshore facility can deliver nearly 200 million standard cubic feet of gas per day when fully operational.
BP upstream business chief executive Bernard Looney said: “Delivered on-time and on budget, this major infrastructure project is 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 start-up in Trinidad and Tobago this year.”
bpTT has planned to expand the production capacity of this new facility through increasing production from low-pressure wells in its existing acreage in the Columbus Basin by utilising an additional inlet compressor at the Point Fortin Atlantic LNG plant.
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By GlobalDataBP Trinidad and Tobago 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 facility is 100% owned by bpTT and will be operated by Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad and Tobago.
The TROC project was sanctioned in July last year after agreements between Atlantic shareholders, the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago and other associated upstream operators.
BP Trinidad and Tobago owns 13 offshore platforms in Trinidad, along with two onshore processing facilities.
Image: The Trinidad Onshore Compression project. Photo: courtesy of BP.
