Hydrocarbons flow into newly installed 37-kilometer pipeline off Trinidad’s southeast coast

Perenco Trinidad & Tobago (Perenco T&T), a subsidiary of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco, has started introducing hydrocarbons into its new underwater pipeline, which was recently installed to start a new chapter at its fields off the southeast coast of Trinidad and Tobago, as part of efforts to revamp the facilities related to these fields.

The introduction of hydrocarbons into the 37-kilometer 10” pipeline from the Teak Alpha production platform at the Teak, Samaan, and Poui (TSP) fields to the Galeota terminal is said to represent the end of the broad-scoped project entailing extensive multidisciplinary teams.

The delivery of the new pipeline comes after the completion of the Samaan gas workover campaign, which enabled Perenco to boost its gas arsenal. The company intends to up the oil production ante at the TSP fields, which came online in 1974.

Perenco T&T and its local partners, Heritage Petroleum and the National Gas Company (NGC), launched a $200 million three-year refurbishment program in 2021 to modernize the TSP fields by electrifying the remaining platforms and replacing the existing gas-lift infrastructure and operations with electric submersible pumps (ESPs).

These efforts were expected to enable the firm to move to a centralized, low-emission gas-fired power generation system. The first phase of Perenco’s modernization program enabled production to ramp up by 25%.

The following phase saw the installation of the first platform at the TSP fields since the 1980s. This platform, called Macarius Power, was previously a drilling rig. Perenco is the operator of the consortium that manages the TSP fields.

TDI-Brooks completed a 2D high-resolution seismic program for the firm offshore Trinidad in December 2023 to identify potential hazards and factors of operational significance relative to the placement of drilling rigs. 

Perenco is also busy with oil and gas projects outside Trinidad, as illustrated by the start of production at its new mobile offshore production unit (MOPU) offshore Congo, Africa.

While the firm’s offshore DRC subsidiary made an oil discovery, which is said to be the first offshore exploration success in Congo in nearly three decades, the company is also working on a five-well development drilling campaign at a field off Cameroon.

In addition, Perenco recently disclosed a redevelopment plan for two oil assets in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.