Cannonball flows gas off Trinidad and Tobago

March 17, 2006
BP Trinidad & Tobago said the $250 million Cannonball platform started gas production off Trinidad and Tobago on Mar. 12. The unmanned platform is 35 km off Galeota Point, Mayaro, in 231 ft of water.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 17 -- BP Trinidad & Tobago said the $250 million Cannonball platform started gas production off Trinidad and Tobago on Mar. 12. The unmanned platform is 35 km off Galeota Point, Mayaro, in 231 ft of water.

Full production is expected during the next few weeks when gas output will be about 800 MMscfd. BPTT said the Cannonball wells will be high-rate gas producers.

The Cannonball start-up had been scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2005 but was delayed by problems with construction of a pipeline between the platform and the Cassia processing hub on the mainland, a BPTT spokesperson said.

BPTT is owned by a holding company in which BP has 70% interest and Repsol YPF SA has 30%.