BPTT yesterday announced the start of natural gas production from the Savonette field, located about 50 miles off off Trinidad’s southeast coast. BPTT has 100 per cent interest in Savonette, which is located in 290 feet (88 metres) of water. Production from the platform is tied into bpTT’s Mahagony B platform through a 26-inch diameter 5.3 mile subsea pipeline where the gas is processed and exported into bpTT’s existing infrastructure, bpTT said in a statement. Gas from Savonette will supply Atlantic LNG’s liquifaction plant for export as LNG to international markets and the domestic market, the company said.
Production from Savonette is expected to average 600 standard cubic feet per day of gas, plus associated condensate from four wells. Savonette production will contribute to maintaining bpTT’s total production level at more than 450,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. With Savonette, bpTT now has production from 12 offshore platforms. The Savonette platform, installed in February 2009, is the fourth in a series of normally unmanned installations designed and constructed in Trinidad using a standardised clone concept.
The 1,898 tonne jacket and the 871 tonne topsides were built at Trinidad Offshore Fabricators (TOFCO) yard in La Brea. BPTT stated that Savonette has high Trinidadian local content, with about 30 per cent of the total engineering procurement and construction value being spent in country and with Trinidadians being responsible for 55 per cent of the project management hours, and 98 per cent of total fabrication hours. Since completing the Cannonball platforms in 2005, in just four years, bpTT has designed and constructed three further platforms right here in Trinidad and commenced production from each, Mango, Cashima and now Savonette.
