The first well on Cypre Gas Project has been spud, bp Trinidad and To­ba­go (bpTT) an­nounced yes­ter­day.

In a new re­lease from the com­pa­ny, bpTT said,“On Car­ni­val Tues­day, while much of the coun­try was en­joy­ing the Car­ni­val fes­tiv­i­ties, our off­shore teams were hard at work start­ing the drilling of the first well for our Cypre ma­jor project. This is the first of sev­en wells to be drilled.”

Cypre is a sub­sea de­vel­op­ment that is ex­pect­ed to con­nect gas from the Cypre field to the Ju­niper plat­form off Trinidad’s south­east coast.

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

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. Our teams are ful­ly fo­cused on drilling and oth­er as­pects of the Cypre de­vel­op­ment to de­liv­er first gas by 2025.”

The well was spud us­ing the Joe Dou­glas jack up rig.