BpTT has con­firmed that its Cas­sia C de­vel­op­ment has safe­ly de­liv­ered first gas.

Cas­sia C is bpTT’s first off­shore com­pres­sion plat­form and its biggest off­shore fa­cil­i­ty.

It will en­able the com­pa­ny to ac­cess and pro­duce low pres­sure gas re­sources from the Greater Cas­sia Area, bpTT said in a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day.

The plat­form, bpTT’s 16th off­shore fa­cil­i­ty, is con­nect­ed to the ex­ist­ing Cas­sia hub which lies ap­prox­i­mate­ly 35 miles off Trinidad’s south-east coast.

The com­pa­ny added Cas­sia C is ex­pect­ed to pro­duce, at peak, about 200 to 300 mil­lion stan­dard cu­bic feet a day of gas.

Pro­duc­tion will go to­wards meet­ing bpTT’s gas sup­ply com­mit­ments and will be im­por­tant to sus­tain­ing T&T’s LNG and petro­chem­i­cal in­dus­tries.

David Camp­bell, bpTT pres­i­dent said: “First gas from Cas­sia C is an im­por­tant mile­stone for bp in T&T.

“This first off­shore com­pres­sion fa­cil­i­ty will al­low us to un­lock new re­sources and bring much-need­ed gas to mar­ket. I am im­mense­ly proud of the teams which have been work­ing hard to bring this fa­cil­i­ty on­line.”

Ewan Drum­mond, bp se­nior vice-pres­i­dent, projects, pro­duc­tion and op­er­a­tions al­so said he was proud of the achieve­ment to de­liv­er this project while keep­ing peo­ple safe through­out a glob­al pan­dem­ic.

Cas­sia C is a great ex­am­ple of bp’s re­silient hy­dro­car­bons strat­e­gy in ac­tion, pro­vid­ing the en­er­gy the world needs now and help­ing in­vest in the en­er­gy tran­si­tion, he added.

The Cas­sia C plat­form’s jack­et, its legs and sup­port­ing frame was built at Tof­co (Trinidad Off­shore Fab­ri­ca­tors) and in­stalled in 2020.

Its top­side struc­ture was built in the Mc­Der­mott fab­ri­ca­tion yard, Al­tami­ra, Mex­i­co, and was in­stalled in 2021.

The Cas­sia C project is an im­por­tant step in bpTT’s Area De­vel­op­ment Plan, which out­lines the di­rec­tion and pace of the com­pa­ny’s ac­tiv­i­ties to de­vel­op hy­dro­car­bon re­sources in its li­censed ma­rine acreage in T&T.

The re­lease al­so ex­plained the plan in­cludes a com­bi­na­tion of ex­plo­ration, de­vel­op­ment projects and ac­tiv­i­ties fo­cused on max­imis­ing pro­duc­tion from bpTT’s acreage.

First gas from Cas­sia C fol­lows the re­cent sanc­tion of the Cypre de­vel­op­ment and the ex­e­cu­tion of the gas sup­ply agree­ment with the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny.