DeNovo Energy delivers first gas from renewable-powered platform
DeNovo Energy Ltd. delivered first gas from its unmanned platform in Zandolie field, Block 1 (a) on the west coast of Trinidad about 45 km offshore Point Lisas industrial estate.
DeNovo Energy Ltd. delivered first gas from its unmanned platform in Zandolie field, Block 1 (a) on the west coast of Trinidad about 45 km offshore Point Lisas industrial estate.
The 40-mmscfd capacity conductor-supported platform is DeNovo’s second offshore field development in the block and contains a single well. Field development builds off existing Iguana field infrastructure to provide a compact topside structure which minimizes steel in its design. Powered by wind and solar, the 100% renewable-powered platform was fully fabricated in country and is the first design of its kind in Trinidad and Tobago.
The platform has also been designed to prevent methane slip in transporting gas both during extraction and in its movement to DeNovo’s onshore gas processing plant at Point Lisas.
Construction of the platform was completed at United Engineering Services Ltd.’s local fabrication yard. The well was drilled by Well Services Rig 110.
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
