BG Trinidad and To­ba­go and Chevron Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day an­nounced that they were mov­ing for­ward with the de­vel­op­ment of the Starfish field project. In a state­ment, BG said the Starfish field, which was dis­cov­ered in 1998, strad­dles Block 5(a) and Block E and forms part of the East Coast Ma­rine Area (EC­MA).

EC­MA is op­er­at­ed by BG Group sub­sidiaries on be­half of a joint ven­ture with Chevron, with each part­ner hold­ing 50 per cent par­tic­i­pat­ing in­ter­est. The EC­MA joint ven­ture has pro­duced nat­ur­al gas from the Dol­phin and Dol­phin Deep fields since 1996 and 2006, re­spec­tive­ly.

"The Starfish project rep­re­sents the next planned phase of sig­nif­i­cant pro­duc­tion of new re­serves for the EC­MA joint ven­ture. First gas from the Starfish field is planned to come on stream in the fourth quar­ter of 2014," ac­cord­ing to the BG state­ment.