BP T&T LLC (bpTT) announced yesterday that all five subsea trees required for the Juniper project have arrived in T&T. The Juniper project is bpTT's first subsea field development, located 50 miles off the south east coast of Trinidad.
The subsea tree is a complex configuration of valves and sensors installed on the wellhead to monitor and control the flow of hydrocarbons. As an essential piece of equipment for the Juniper project, each tree weighs approximately 76 tonnes.
Assembled and tested at the OneSubsea fabrication plant in Johor, Malaysia, with components and materials sourced from various locations around the world including Malaysia, Singapore, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, these trees are among the largest and heaviest ever built.
After being offloaded at the Labidco yard for testing, the trees will move to the offshore location for the bpTT Juniper field. Drilling of the five Juniper subsea wells began in 2015 and was completed last month. The completions activity currently in progress on all five wells will take place by fourth quarter 2016. The Juniper project will have a production capacity of approximately 590 million standard cubic feet a day (mmscfd) of gas. First gas from the facility is expected in 2017.
"The arrival of the trees is another significant milestone in the delivery of the Juniper project. BpTT has committed to maintaining investment in Trinidad and Tobago, and to further develop the offshore acreage once the investment climate continues to support further investments in the upstream," said bpTT regional president Norman Christie.
The Juniper facility 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. It will become bpTT's 14th offshore production facility. Drilling commenced in 2015 and first gas from the facility is expected in 2017.
BpTT has a 100 per cent working interest in the development.