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The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) and Proman Trinidad announce the resumption of an interim gas supply arrangement which would facilitate an immediate restart of MHTL’s M4 and M5000 methanol plants. This interim agreement was put in place while the commercial terms of a long-term gas supply contract are being finalized between the two parties.
ExxonMobil said today it made an oil discovery at the Uaru-2 well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. Uaru-2 will add to the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the block, which is currently estimated to be approximately 9 billion oil-equivalent barrels. Drilling at Uaru-2 encountered approximately 120 feet (36.7 meters) of high quality oil bearing reservoirs including newly identified intervals below the original Uaru-1 discovery. The well was drilled in 5,659 feet (1,725 meters) of water and is located approximately 6.8 miles (11 kilometers) south of the Uaru-1 well.
According to the company the contract will be delivered from ASCO Trinidad’s Chaguaramas bases.
bp today announced gas production from Raven field, the third stage of its major West Nile Delta (WND) development off the Mediterranean coast in Egypt.
The Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago is aware of recent reports of cases of Covid-19 in upstream energy industry facilities. The energy industry provides essential services and throughout the pandemic we have been working to keep the industry up and running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. As all our electricity comes from natural gas, the energy industry keeps the light on for Trinidad & Tobago.
BHP announced that the Ruby project in Trinidad and Tobago is progressing ahead of schedule and on budget, with first production on track for May 2021
The Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago congratulates the Honourable Stuart Young on his appointment as Minister of Energy and Energy Industries. Minister Young has been deeply involved in the restructuring of the gas value chain over the past six years and has been central to many of the negotiations with the international operating companies in the sector. The Energy Chamber looks forward to continuing to work closely with Minister Young in his new portfolio, on both this issue and other critical issues for the energy industry.
The SVG relief mission is a collaborative effort by private sector NGO's of T&T, spearheaded by the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago. As the situation in our neighboring island unfolded, the direst need for a water supply to the island was identified. An immediate dialog was initiated by the Energy Chamber of T&T and major oil and gas operators willingly came on board. They in turn sanctioned the assistance of their supply partners.
The members, Board and staff of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago extend our deepest condolences to the family of Senator the Honourable Franklin Khan.
The Trinidad & Tobago energy industry has rallied to support our Caribbean neighbours impacted by the St Vincent volcano. Mid-Atlantic’s fast platform supply vessel, the Sentinel, was quickly mobilised to carry potable water to help impacted communities in St Vincent. With co-ordination through the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago and the St Vincent Chamber of Industry and Commerce, both partners in the Caribbean Chambers Network (CARICHAM), 25,000 gallons of potable water, along with urgent medical supplies, were dispatched on this vessel to St Vincent.
Touchstone Exploration announced the completion of flowback testing of the Cascadura Deep-1 well, confirming a liquids rich natural gas discovery
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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The Energy Chamber is the sole provider of assessments for the PLEA 10 hour basic health and safety training course – often called the PLEA Pass or Passport. This pass allows individuals to be certified as to having basic understanding of safety requirements to work on one of the PLEA member company facilities.
On average over the last 10 years the Energy Chamber sees about 15,000 candidates annually. In 2020 however due to the slowdown in activity at the Pt Lisa estate 9,476 candidates sought the PLEA Pass.
The Energy Chamber has noted the media statements on the inability of the National Gas Company and MHTL/Proman to successfully conclude negotiations on a new gas supply contract to come into effect on the expiry of the temporary extensions agreed through to the 31 March 2021.
Despite a challenging year, Trinidad and Tobago NGL Limited (‘TTNGL’/’Company’) recorded an after-tax profit of TT$5.8 million for the year ended 31 December 2020. This translated into earnings per share of TT$0.04.
The Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago is delighted to hear about the signing of the Joint Venture agreement between Heritage Petroleum and EOG Resources for acreage in the Trinidad Northern Areas block. As indicated by both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy, this is the first in a series of new joint ventures or farm/lease-out that will be entered into by Heritage on their oil acreage. This is very good news for Trinidad & Tobago’s oil industry and indeed the overall economy.
The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) has announced that on February 18th, 2021, the Cabinet agreed to the establishment of a Carbon Capture and Carbon Dioxide (Co2) Enhanced Oil Recovery Steering Committee.
The Energy Chamber’s Learning Centre began operations in September 2011. We initially started with the provision of computer-based training and expanded into classroom based delivery of training. At present we offer a wide range of face to face and online training programs to our members as well as the public. Programs that have been widely accepted and have been delivered successfully. We consistently seek to provide relevant, quality, customized and general training to our customers.
According to BPC, the 2021 Trinidad drilling program will commence with the drilling of the Saffron #2 appraisal well, as a follow up to the successful Saffron #1 discovery well completed in March 2020. BPC has a 100% working interest in the Saffron discovery.
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) has announced that the Goliathberg-Voltzberg North exploration well, drilled in Block 47, offshore Suriname, has reached Total Depth and encountered good quality reservoir but only minor oil shows.
