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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Young gets Calypso, Angostura updates

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Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young, right, and his permanent secretary, Penelope Bradshaw-Niles receive an update on Woodside Energy’s Calypso and Angostura projects from Onne Peters, left, vice president, marketing, Woodside Energy; Stacy Patrick, Calypso Project director,Woodside Energy; Kellyanne Lochan, country manager Trinidad and Tobago, Woodside Energy.

Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young, right, and his permanent secretary, Penelope Bradshaw-Niles receive an update on Woodside Energy’s Calypso and Angostura projects from Onne Peters, left, vice president, marketing, Woodside Energy; Stacy Patrick, Calypso Project director,Woodside Energy; Kellyanne Lochan, country manager Trinidad and Tobago, Woodside Energy.

MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND ENERGY INDUSTRIES

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.


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