BP Trinidad & Tobago starts up Onshore Compression projects

BP Trinidad and Tobago has started up the Trinidad Onshore Compression projects.

The oil giant said the full start-up will take place in the next few months and once fully on stream the facility will have the potential to deliver around 200m standard cubic feet of gas per day.

It is expected to improve production capacity by lifting production from low-pressure wells in BP Trinidad & Tobago's existing acreage in the Columbus Basin using an additional inlet compressor at the Point Fortin Atlantic LNG plant.

Bernard Looney, chief executive of the company's upstream business, 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.”

The project - one of seven major upstream projects BP expects to bring online this year - was sanctioned in July 2016 following agreements between Atlantic shareholders, the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago and other directly impacted upstream operators.

BP 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.”