BP awards T&T FEED contract to Fluor

PORT OF SPAIN, March 24, 2017 – According to reports that surfaced on Friday, BP Trinidad and Tobago has awarded a FEED contract for a gas processing and compression unit for the Cassia offshore field to Fluor Corporation.

The Cassia C platform, expected to start operations in 2020, will have a capacity of some 31.2-36.8 mcm (1.1-1.3 bcf) per day.

BP and Fluor have been working together in Trinidad and Tobago since 2004, when Fluor was awarded a USD 20-million contract to work on an offshore platform. Subsequently, Fluor constructed a 36-inch, 63-kilometre pipeline from BP’s Cassia B platform to the shore.

BP currently operates 13 production platforms and 2 onshore processing facilities in Trinidad, with another platform, Juniper, scheduled to come on stream this year and a fifteenth one, Angelin, under consideration for approval.

“Although the operating environment is being negatively affected by low prices, at least in the case of BPTT we have a full activity set in place to help deliver on our commitments in terms of national production and contribution to BP’s production as well,” the company’s vice-president of operations, Andre Celestain, said on a previous occasion, while addressing plans for 2017.

The news came as Trinidad and Tobago is struggling to plug gaping budget holes and as natural gas production in the country declined some 12% year-on-year in January.

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