geisha.kowlessar@guardian.co.tt
BP Trinidad & Tobago (BPTT) has announced that it has made a gas discovery with the Ginger exploration well, offshore Trinidad.
The well is expected to be completed by the end of November 2019, a statement from the company said.
It added that the results of the Ginger well will continue to be evaluated following the completion of drilling operations, but initial results are promising.
The Ginger exploration well was drilled into two untested fault blocks east of the Cashima Field in water depths less than 300 feet, approximately 50 miles off the south-east coast of Trinidad.
The well was drilled using a jackup rig and has penetrated hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs in fifteen segments.
“This is positive news for both BPTT and the industry, as these discoveries continue BPTT’s exploration success on the Trinidad shelf following the Savannah and Macadamia commercial discoveries,” Claire Fitzpatrick, Regional President for BPTT said.
“We are continuing to see the benefits of the significant investment we have made in seismic processing and Ocean Bottom Seismic acquisition. The Columbus Basin is a maturing province and the Ginger discovery demonstrates that with the right technology we can continue to uncover further resource potential in the basin. This demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the development of our
Trinidad and Tobago operations and the wider industry,”Fitzpatrick added.
BP T&T has a 100 per cent working interest in Ginger.
BPTT operates off Trinidad’s east coast and has 15 offshore platforms and two onshore processing facilities. BPTT is 70 per cent owned by BP and 30 per cent owned by Repsol.