En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and bpTT Pres­i­dent David Camp­bell toured the ‘Sev­en Seas,’ on Mon­day.

The 'Sev­en Seas' is a pipe-lay­ing ves­sel, which is cur­rent­ly sup­port­ing the de­vel­op­ment of bpTT’s Cypre Project in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The ves­sel, which is cur­rent­ly docked at the ChagTerms dock in Ch­aguara­mas, is un­der­tak­ing ‘trans­pool­ing’ ac­tiv­i­ty re­lat­ed to sub­sea in­fra­struc­ture in­stal­la­tion that will con­nect gas from the Cypre field to bpTT’s Ju­niper plat­form off Trinidad’s south­east coast.

Paul Stern, projects gen­er­al man­ag­er of bpTT and Giselle Thomp­son, vice pres­i­dent, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and ex­ter­nal af­fairs, bpTT were al­so present at the ves­sel tour.

The Cypre project will be­come bpTT’s third sub­sea de­vel­op­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go. The project will in­clude sev­en wells and sub­sea trees tied back in­to bpTT’s ex­ist­ing Ju­niper plat­form with gas pro­duc­tion pro­ject­ed for 2025.

Cypre forms part of bpTT’s strat­e­gy of max­i­miz­ing pro­duc­tion from its ex­ist­ing in­fra­struc­ture, iden­ti­fy­ing in­no­v­a­tive so­lu­tions to bring gas to the mar­ket faster. First gas is ex­pect­ed in 2025.

Dur­ing the tour, Young met with a num­ber of T&T na­tion­als work­ing along­side the ves­sel’s in­ter­na­tion­al crew.

Among these per­sons were sur­vey tech­ni­cians, ‘mo­tor-men,’ a sur­vey ad­vi­sor, ‘medic’ and a re­mote­ly op­er­at­ed ve­hi­cle (R.O.V.) op­er­a­tor.

Young al­so met three lo­cal cadets re­ceiv­ing prac­ti­cal train­ing on-board the ves­sel, as part of the sea-ser­vice com­po­nent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Diplo­ma in Mar­itime Op­er­a­tions.

Young said the strong rep­re­sen­ta­tion of T&T’s mar­itime in­dus­try and lo­cal con­tent on-board the ves­sel and stat­ed that the gov­ern­ment will con­tin­ue to work with en­er­gy sec­tor stake­hold­ers to cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties such as these that will build lo­cal ca­pac­i­ty and dri­ve T&T’s in­ter­na­tion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness.

In a news re­lease in Feb­ru­ary this year to mark the first well spud in the de­vel­op­ment, bpTT pres­i­dent David Camp­bell said: “Fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful de­liv­ery of our small pools drilling pro­gramme, we are pleased to see the safe and ef­fi­cient re­tool­ing and re­lo­ca­tion of the Valaris Joe Dou­glas rig to the Cypre field. Cypre is a sig­nif­i­cant in­vest­ment for bpTT to con­tin­ue to main­tain pro­duc­tion and the start of the drilling pro­gramme is an im­por­tant step in the Cypre project.

"Our ob­jec­tive is to bring nat­ur­al gas in­to pro­duc­tion safe­ly and as quick­ly as pos­si­ble - I’m proud that we are do­ing just that, hav­ing sanc­tioned Cypre soon af­ter our meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley in Lon­don in Q3 2022, we have quick­ly pro­gressed our plan­ning and are al­ready drilling our first well.”

Ear­li­er this week, Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Her­itage) an­nounced the com­mence­ment of a sub­sea pipeline in­stal­la­tion project in the East Sol­da­do Field,

The "Mark I Deck Barge left La Brea Brighton Port on Mon­day for the East Sol­da­do Field where it will re­main for a pe­ri­od of nine­ty (90) days for the in­stal­la­tion of sub­sea pipelines.