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NGC’s President, S. Andrew
Mc Intosh, announced on Wednesday, May 11th the
successful completion and commissioning of NGC’s
59-mile, 36-inch-diameter North-Eastern Offshore
(NEO) pipeline. Mr. Mc Intosh reported
that the commissioning exercise had been
successfully completed when the 36 inch control
valve at the Abyssinia Accumulator Station was
opened at 19:58 hrs on May 10th 2011 to
allow natural gas from BHP Billiton’s Angostura
Field, located off Trinidad’s North-east Coast,
to flow into NGC’s onshore natural gas
transmission network. Mr. Mc Intosh said that
the pipeline, which has a capacity of 1.2 Bcf,
will initially take 220 MMscf/d from BHPBilliton
and include a tie-back to EOG Resources’ Toucan
Platform from which natural gas will be exported
circa December 2011. The project began in 2007,
taking four years to complete at a cost of
US$450 million dollars. As of March 2011, Mr. Mc
Intosh also said that 2.4 million man-hours of
work had been expended on the project.
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Of major significance for the local
energy sector is that the NEO pipeline is the first line to
be constructed from Block 2c off Trinidad’s north-east coast
into the existing NGC pipeline network located off the
south-east coast of Trinidad. The pipeline originates
from BHP Billiton’s Gas Export Platform, comes ashore at
Mayaro and then continues on land to NGC’s Abysinnia
Complex. Historically, the supply of offshore gas came
only from fields located off the south-east coast.
However, with the discovery and monetization of fields in
the north-east acreage, it was imperative that NGC develop
an extensive marine pipeline network in that area. S. Andrew Mc Intosh has sent his
congratulations to his technical team led by Wade Hamilton,
Vice President, Technical Services and Charles Thavenot,
Project Manager of NEO pipeline and his NEO team who
successfully overcame several challenges during the
construction of the pipeline. May 12, 2011 |
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