BP Trinidad and Tobago’s (bpTT) US$2 billion Juniper platform has set sail towards the southeast coast of Trinidad, marking one of the supermajor’s largest start-ups this year.
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Image of Juniper, from BP. |
The Juniper project includes a platform made up of jacket, piles and topsides, and corresponding subsea infrastructure which will be installed 50mi offshore Trinidad, at 360ft water depth.
Juniper is bpTT’s first subsea field development, and will have a production capacity of some 590 MMcf/d, which will flow through the Mahogany B offshore hub.
“A little over two years ago the Juniper project was sanctioned and, at that time, it represented a significant milestone as an important part of the future of bpTT,” said Norman Christie, bpTT regional president. “Today, we are pleased to see the project progress even further and closer to start up with the sail away of the jacket and topsides.”
“The gas from Juniper will be the largest volume of gas brought into the country in several years. I look forward to seeing this project starting up and bringing much needed natural gas that can help alleviate the supply and demand imbalance in T&T,” Christie said.
The Juniper topsides were fabricated at the TOFCO fabrication yard in La Brea, Trinidad. They measure 145ft tall to the top of the helideck and weigh about 5,100 ton. The jacket and piles, fabricated at Gulf Marine Fabricators in Aransas Pass, Texas, sailed to Trinidad in December 2016. The jacket measures 389ft tall and weighs roughly 5,200 ton. The platform installation is being handled by the Thialf, the largest deepwater construction vessel, operated by Heerema Marine Contractors.
BPTT has a 100% working interest in the Juniper development.
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