bpTT announced on Thursday that it is moving forward at pace with the award of a key contract for the development of the Juniper project.
Following the announcement of the sanction of the Juniper project last month, the energy company has awarded a contract to Technip USA for the engineering, procurement and construction of the jacket and topsides of the new Juniper platform to be located off the south east coast of Trinidad. The contract also includes the offshore installation of subsea equipment for the Juniper project.
bpTT facilitated the establishment of T&T's local offshore platform fabrication industry through the extensive use of in-country expertise to build the first offshore platform ever designed and constructed with significant local input. Following the commissioning of the Cannonball platform in 2005, four platforms–Mango, Cashima, Savonette and Serrette, were also locally designed and constructed with more than 80 per cent of the labour performed by T&T nationals.
Juniper will be the sixth platform to be built by bpTT in T&T, and construction is due to commence later this year.Drilling is due to commence in 2015 and first gas from the facility is expected in 2017.
About Juniper
�2 The Juniper facility will be a normally unmanned installation (NUI) and will take gas from the Corallita and Lantana fields located 50 miles off the south east coast of Trinidad in water-depth of approximately 360 feet.
�2 The development will include five subsea wells and will have a production capacity of approximately 590 million standard cubic feet a day (mmscfd).
�2 Gas from Juniper will flow to the Mahogany B hub via a new ten kilometer flow line.
�2 bpTT operates in 904,000 acres off Trinidad's east coast.