First hy­dro­car­bons have been trans­port­ed suc­cess­ful­ly from bp Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (bpTT) Beach­field gas re­ceiv­ing fa­cil­i­ty to its Ter­mi­nal at Ga­le­o­ta Point for pro­cess­ing—com­plet­ing the in­te­gra­tion of this new in­fra­struc­ture in­to its ex­ist­ing op­er­a­tions.

The news came in an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued by the com­pa­ny, con­firm­ing the com­ple­tion of its re­place­ment pipeline project—its fifth in­fra­struc­ture up­grade project in six years.

“Our Ocelot project is the fifth crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture up­grade project that we have un­der­tak­en in the last six years in ser­vice of prepar­ing our op­er­a­tions for the fu­ture,” said David Camp­bell, pres­i­dent bpTT.

“This as­set in­tegri­ty project was es­sen­tial to be able to safe­ly pro­vide gas to meet our ex­ist­ing con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions,” Camp­bell ex­plained, “and pre­pares our op­er­a­tions for the next wave of gas de­vel­op­ments.”

He added: “This is an­oth­er demon­stra­tion of bpTT’s com­mit­ment to the na­tion and to un­lock­ing the en­er­gy fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

In this image released by bp Trinidad and Tobago and dated 6 Nov. 2023, an employee works on a section of the pipeline replaced during the Trinidad offshore pipeline replacement (TOPR) project, to facilitate the transportation of liquids from bp’s production facilities offshore to the terminal at Galeota point. The project was completed in 2023. [Image courtesy bpTT)

The project in­clud­ed the in­stal­la­tion of 13 kilo­me­tres of new pipeline, mea­sur­ing six inch­es in di­am­e­ter and was in­stalled along the cur­rent pipeline cor­ri­dor. bpTT says the ex­ist­ing pipeline, which has come to the end of its de­sign life, has now been tak­en safe­ly out of ser­vice.

The com­pa­ny notes that this crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture up­grade project helps un­der­pin safe and re­li­able op­er­a­tions, and fol­lows the re­cent Trinidad off­shore pipeline re­place­ment (TOPR) project com­plet­ed in 2023.  Dur­ing the TOPR, some 96 kilo­me­tres of 12-inch pipeline was re­placed to fa­cil­i­tate the trans­porta­tion of liq­uids from bp’s pro­duc­tion fa­cil­i­ties off­shore to the ter­mi­nal at Ga­le­o­ta point.

bpTT says the gas busi­ness in Trinidad and To­ba­go “plays a key role de­liv­er­ing re­silient hy­dro­car­bons in sup­port of bp’s strat­e­gy and in help­ing bp be­come a sim­pler, more fo­cused and high­er-val­ue com­pa­ny.”