RYAN BA­CHOO

bpTT says it has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed the first phase of its “small pools” drilling cam­paign which be­gan in Oc­to­ber last year. The cam­paign in­cludes three wells in the Man­go field, one well in the Savonette field and three wells in the An­gelin field.

Ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny, cur­rent­ly the wells are pro­duc­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 180 mil­lion stan­dard cu­bic feet a day (mm­scfd) with the third well still ramp­ing up.

The “small pools” drilling pro­gram in­cludes side­tracks of ex­ist­ing wells, in ad­di­tion to ac­cess to new ex­plo­ration seg­ments that have not pro­duced pre­vi­ous­ly. It tar­gets small­er ac­cu­mu­la­tions of gas re­sources that are near to bpTT’s ex­ist­ing in­fra­struc­ture and al­lows these re­sources to be ac­cessed more ef­fi­cient­ly and brought in­to pro­duc­tion faster us­ing ex­ist­ing in­fra­struc­ture.

“The suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the wells in our Man­go field is great news for bpTT and for Trinidad and To­ba­go. It demon­strates our con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to de­vel­op­ing re­sources in our ex­ist­ing shal­low wa­ter acreage in the Colum­bus Basin,” bpTT pres­i­dent David Camp­bell said.

He added: “Our goal is to find and re­cov­er as much of the gas re­sources as we can, small or large and par­tic­u­lar­ly those that can be quick­ly brought in­to ex­ist­ing in­fra­struc­ture. Each suc­cess­ful well helps to stem the de­clines in these more ma­ture gas fields and con­tributes to our abil­i­ty to meet our gas sup­ply com­mit­ments to the NGC and At­lantic.”