De­N­o­vo En­er­gy Ltd, part of the Pro­man fam­i­ly of com­pa­nies, has de­liv­ered first gas from its Zan­dolie field.

The un­manned min­i­mum fa­cil­i­ty is De­N­o­vo’s sec­ond off­shore field de­vel­op­ment to be com­plet­ed in Block 1 (a) on the west coast of Trinidad, a state­ment from the com­pa­ny said yes­ter­day.

“De­N­o­vo has once again proven its com­mit­ment to in­creas­ing Trinidad’s na­tion­al gas sup­ply by safe­ly and quick­ly de­vel­op­ing strand­ed and mar­gin­al gas re­serves. With an in­vest­ment of USD 52 MM, Zan­dolie was com­plet­ed with­in 31 months amidst the pan­dem­ic,” the state­ment said.

It ex­plained that Zan­dolie is a sin­gle well, con­duc­tor-sup­port­ed plat­form with a name­plate ca­pac­i­ty of 40 MM­SCFD.

The field de­vel­op­ment builds off the ex­ist­ing Igua­na In­fra­struc­ture en­abling a more com­pact top­side struc­ture that is lighter and more ef­fi­cient.

Ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny the space sav­ing achieved al­so min­imis­es the use of steel in the de­sign al­low­ing for a mod­u­lar de­sign and greater use of lo­cal fab­ri­ca­tion ser­vices.

“The ground-break­ing in­te­gra­tion of re­new­able re­sources makes Zan­dolie the first de­sign of its kind in T&T. Pow­ered by wind and so­lar, the 100 per cent re­new­ably pow­ered plat­form was al­so ful­ly fab­ri­cat­ed in coun­try, af­firm­ing De­N­o­vo’s com­mit­ment to re­duc­ing its car­bon foot­print and max­imis­ing lo­cal tal­ent and re­sources,” it al­so not­ed.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Stu­art Young com­mend­ed De­N­o­vo. He said, “The sto­ry of lo­cal fab­ri­ca­tion and skills as well as per­son­nel used for Zan­dolie proves that it can be done. I en­cour­age De­N­o­vo to con­tin­ue pur­su­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­creased gas pro­duc­tion in T&T and look for­ward to more suc­cess from you.”

De­N­o­vo’s Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor, Bryan Ram­sumair al­so not­ed that this crit­i­cal mile­stone in the com­pa­ny’s sec­ond field de­vel­op­ment high­lights the dri­ve by the team to con­stant­ly im­prove and learn.

He added, “We pushed our­selves to de­liv­er a green­er and more lo­cal plat­form. The re­sult is that the Zan­dolie plat­form is a lo­cal fab­ri­ca­tion which is 100 per cent pow­ered by re­new­able en­er­gy – and which will min­i­mize the car­bon foot­print of our op­er­a­tions.”

Ram­sumair said it is al­so the com­pa­ny’s in­ten­tion to on a reg­u­lar ba­sis keep ac­quir­ing ac­cess to new acreage for more projects like this.

“With Zan­dolie, De­N­o­vo is demon­strat­ing that our fu­ture en­er­gy in­dus­try can be done lo­cal­ly and with a low­er car­bon foot­print – both aligned to the coun­try’s de­vel­op­ment ob­jec­tives,” he added.

Claus Cron­berg­er, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Pro­man T&T and Chair­man of De­N­o­vo al­so not­ed the first com­mer­cial gas sup­ply from Zan­dolie is a sig­nif­i­cant ac­com­plish­ment.

“Across the Pro­man fam­i­ly of com­pa­nies, we have al­ways been dri­ven by in­no­va­tion and the use of best-in-class tech­nol­o­gy in our fa­cil­i­ties, and Zan­dolie ex­em­pli­fies this think­ing,” he said.

Cron­berg­er added that the teams at De­N­o­vo and Pro­man T&T and its lo­cal con­trac­tor part­ners, have done an out­stand­ing job de­liv­er­ing this world-class fa­cil­i­ty.

“To­geth­er we have achieved a sig­nif­i­cant first for T&T, demon­strat­ing our dri­ve to en­hance the com­pet­i­tive­ness of the lo­cal en­er­gy sec­tor, in­crease the se­cu­ri­ty of our coun­try’s gas sup­ply by de­vel­op­ing strand­ed gas re­serves, and con­tin­u­ing to de­liv­er op­por­tu­ni­ties to grow lo­cal tal­ent,” Cron­berg­er said.