bp indicated that their teams have returned to the Cassia C Platform construction yard in Altamira, Mexico, as it’s now safe under COVID-19 guidelines.

The company via LinkedIn said that the Cassia Platform is one of their biggest new projects in Trinidad and their first offshore compression facility. They added “The Cassia Platform plays an important part in our gas supply contract commitments. Construction is progressing well and continues without a lost time incident in over 4.5 million work hours.”

The project enables bp to access low pressure gas resources from over 30 wells across 7 fields in the Cassia hub, and is forecast to start up in 2022.

According to bp, the project was sanctioned in 2018. It will involve the construction of a new platform, Cassia C, BPTT’s 16th offshore facility. McDermott International is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) provider for the project. The topside and bridge are being fabricated in Altamira, Mexico. The jacket and bridge landing frame are being fabricated at TOFCO, Trinidad and Tobago.

Gas production from the Greater Cassia Area will be routed to Cassia C for compression before being exported via the adjacent existing Cassia B platform. Cassia C will be located 57 kilometres off the south-east coast of Trinidad. The platform will have a throughput capacity of 1.2 billion standard cubic feet of gas a day (bcfd).

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