En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­ceived an up­date on Wood­side En­er­gy's Ca­lyp­so and An­gos­tu­ra projects on Wednes­day, ac­cord­ing to a news re­lease from the min­istry. Wood­side En­er­gy ex­ec­u­tives met with the Min­is­ter at the Min­istry of En­er­gy's In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex, Head-Of­fice, Port-of-Spain.

Kellyanne Lochan, coun­try man­ag­er Trinidad and To­ba­go, Wood­side En­er­gy was part of the Wood­side group which vis­it­ed along­side Onne Pe­ters, vice pres­i­dent, mar­ket­ing, Wood­side En­er­gy, Sta­cy Patrick, Ca­lyp­so project di­rec­tor, Wood­side En­er­gy and Dr. Car­la Noel-Mendez, man­ag­er cor­po­rate af­fairs of Wood­side En­er­gy.

In pro­vid­ing the up­date on the Ca­lyp­so Project to Young, Lochan stat­ed that ‘pre-feed’ en­gi­neer­ing work is pro­gress­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to Wood­side's web­site, "Ca­lyp­so is lo­cat­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 220 kilo­me­tres off the coast of Trinidad in 2,100-me­tre wa­ter depth. The re­source com­pris­es sev­er­al gas dis­cov­er­ies in Block 23(a) and Block TTDAA 14. The de­vel­op­ment is lo­cat­ed in a re­gion with ex­ist­ing in­fra­struc­ture and a favourable de­mand out­look. "

"In the first half of 2023, Wood­side com­plet­ed con­cep­tu­al stud­ies and se­lect­ed an in­field host as the pre­ferred de­vel­op­ment con­cept. Pre-FEED en­gi­neer­ing com­menced in the sec­ond half of 2023 to ma­ture the defi­ni­tion of the con­cept. Mar­ket­ing and com­mer­cial dis­cus­sions con­tin­ue with key stake­hold­ers to eval­u­ate op­tions to mon­e­tise the re­source. Wood­side is op­er­a­tor and holds a 70 per cent par­tic­i­pat­ing in­ter­est," Wood­side's as­sess­ment of the Ca­lyp­so block stat­ed. Ca­lyp­so's non-op­er­at­ing part­ner is bpTT and the block is es­ti­mat­ed to con­tain 3.5 tril­lion cu­bic feet (tcf) of re­cov­er­able re­serves.

The site fur­ther stat­ed, "The Ca­lyp­so ap­praisal drilling pro­gramme (con­sist­ing of the Bon­gos-3, Bon­gos-3X and Bon­gos-4 wells) con­clud­ed on 20 De­cem­ber 2021. All wells en­coun­tered hy­dro­car­bons."

On Wednes­day, En­er­gy Cham­ber CEO Dr Thack­wray 'Dax' Dri­ver list­ed Ca­lyp­so as one of the projects in Trinidad wa­ters which could boost nat­ur­al pro­duc­tion.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy stat­ed, "In the in­ter­est of en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and nav­i­gat­ing the en­er­gy tran­si­tion, Wood­side En­er­gy con­tin­ues to en­gage with the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny on in­no­v­a­tive ways to in­crease nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion. Both par­ties agreed to progress works on the Ca­lyp­so project and col­lab­o­rate on iden­ti­fy­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for fu­ture en­gage­ment."

Ac­cord­ing to Min­istry re­lease, Min­is­ter Young al­so re­ceived an up­date on the im­proved op­er­a­tions at Wood­side En­er­gy’s An­gos­tu­ra fa­cil­i­ty af­ter its suc­cess­ful turn­around.

The Greater An­gos­tu­ra field is an off­shore con­ven­tion­al oil and gas field lo­cat­ed 38km north­east of Trinidad which was dis­cov­ered in 1999.

Ac­cord­ing to Wood­side's web­site, first oil from An­gos­tu­ra was achieved in Jan­u­ary 2005 (Phase 1) while Phase 2 es­tab­lished gas sales in 2011. The site stat­ed, "First gas for An­gos­tu­ra Phase 3 was es­tab­lished in Sep­tem­ber 2016. Ru­by is a con­ven­tion­al off­shore oil and gas field lo­cat­ed with­in the Greater An­gos­tu­ra Fields. First oil was achieved in May 2021."

"The cur­rent de­vel­op­ment com­pris­es a main cen­tral pro­cess­ing plat­form (CPP), gas ex­port plat­form (GEP), four well­head pro­tec­tor plat­forms (WPP) and on­shore ter­mi­nal. Flow­lines con­nect the Ru­by well­head plat­form back to the CPP and GEP for pro­cess­ing. Crude oil from CPP is trans­port­ed to the Ter­mi­nal Fa­cil­i­ty lo­cat­ed in the south east­ern end of Trinidad," said Wood­side.