bp Trinidad and To­ba­go LLC (bpTT) has com­menced work on its Mat­a­pal field de­vel­op­ment which is ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er gas in 2022.

In a press re­lease the com­pa­ny said Mat­a­pal is a sub­sea de­vel­op­ment com­pris­ing three wells that tie-back in­to the ex­ist­ing Ju­niper plat­form.

Mat­a­pal will de­liv­er gas in­to the Trinidad gas mar­ket from re­sources dis­cov­ered by the Sa­van­nah ex­plo­ration well drilled in 2017. The de­vel­op­ment will have a pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ty of 400 mil­lion stan­dard cu­bic feet per day (mm­scfd).

“The drilling op­er­a­tions for Mat­a­pal com­menced on 8 Oc­to­ber and are be­ing un­der­tak­en by the Maer­sk Dis­cov­er­er, a se­mi-sub­mersible rig which ar­rived in Trinidad on 3 Sep­tem­ber 2020,” the re­lease read.

The Mat­a­pal project is lo­cat­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 80km off the south-east coast of Trinidad. The Mat­a­pal field is lo­cat­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8km east of Ju­niper, in 163 me­tres of wa­ter depth.

Ac­cord­ing to bpTT the project con­sists of both green­field and brown­field ac­tiv­i­ties with the ma­jor­i­ty of brown­field fab­ri­ca­tion be­ing com­plet­ed lo­cal­ly.

Claire Fitz­patrick, bpTT pres­i­dent said “Mat­a­pal is an im­por­tant part of bpTT’s port­fo­lio to con­tin­ue to un­der­pin our ex­ist­ing gas con­tracts. This is bpTT’s sec­ond sub­sea de­vel­op­ment in Trinidad and the spud­ding of this well is a key mile­stone as we work to­ward first gas in 2022.”