bp Trinidad and To­ba­go (bpTT) has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its Trinidad Off­shore Pipeline Re­place­ment (TOPR) project and safe­ly in­te­grat­ed the new in­fra­struc­ture in­to its op­er­a­tions.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, bpTT said the TOPR project suc­cess­ful­ly in­stalled a 96-kilo­me­tre 12-inch pipeline that will trans­port liq­uids from off­shore fa­cil­i­ties to be processed on­shore at the com­pa­ny’s ter­mi­nal at Ga­le­o­ta point, re­plac­ing a pre­vi­ous pipeline which had come to the end of its de­sign life.

It not­ed that the crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture up­grade will help en­able con­tin­ued safe and re­li­able op­er­a­tions and was one of sev­er­al in­vest­ments un­der­tak­en in the last five years to im­prove the in­tegri­ty of bpTT’s pipeline and liq­uids han­dling in­fra­struc­ture—all aimed at sup­port­ing gas de­vel­op­ments in the com­ing decades.

David Camp­bell, pres­i­dent bpTT, said: “We see the role gas con­tin­ues to play, es­pe­cial­ly here in Trinidad and To­ba­go. We are fo­cused on help­ing to un­lock Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy fu­ture and are in­vest­ing in projects that en­able the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try’s nat­ur­al gas re­sources. We will con­tin­ue to up­grade our in­fra­struc­ture to be able to con­tin­ue to sup­ply the en­er­gy the world needs to­day.”