A Texas-based company's development plan for recovering heavy oil reserves in Trinidad includes 20-acre production units, each with six vertical steam-injection wells and one 1,200-ft horizontal drain hole (Fig. 1).
New Horizon Exploration Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. (NHETT), a subsidiary of New Horizon Exploration Inc., Richardson, Tex., calls its scheme a "Six-pac."
NHETT says that in its joint-venture development with Petrotrin, Trinidad and Tobago's national petroleum company, it plans to invest up to $35 million over the next 5 years in the 744-acre Parrylands Block E (Fig. 2).
It expects to recover about 30 million bbl or about 50% of the oil remaining in the 200-ft thick Forest sandstones reservoir, lying at a 1,200-ft depth.
Production is expected to reach 16,000 bo/d.
Block E lies between Petrotrin's Parrylands and Forest Reserve production areas, and therefore, NHETT says that it will not incur any exploration costs.
And development costs will be low because of the existing infrastructure of paved roads, electric power lines, water service, and pipelines.
NHETT plans to deliver the oil to Petrotrin's Pointe-of-Pierre refinery, which it says has excess capacity and can easily handle the Block E production.
