The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
(NGC) completed the golden weld (final weld) on the
66-kilometre, 36 inch-diameter Beachfield Upstream
Development (BUD) natural gas pipeline on Friday 29th
February, 2008 at Rustville, Guayaguayare. The pipeline will
transport natural gas from the Cassia B platform to
Beachfield, Guayaguayare.
BUD Project Director, Clarence Harnanan, explains the
significance of the line to NGC's natural gas transmission
system: "This line will increase NGC's gas transmission
capacity to Point Lisas by 600 million cubic feet per day (MMscf/d)
to 2 Bcf/d.
The completion of this pipeline combined with the 56" Cross
Island Pipeline (CIP) which transports gas to Atlantic LNG,
brings NGC's overall gas transmission system is the 7th
largest in the Western Hemisphere.
NGC’s Vice-President, Gas Transmission and Distribution,
Stephen Julien, is pleased at the completion of the line:
“At the present time, NGC acquires 1.6 Bcf/d of gas which we
transport and distribute through our pipeline network to
Point Lisas. With the addition of the BUD pipeline, we have
connected two new sources of gas from bpTT at their Cassia
Hub and EOG Resources from their Oilbird platform
respectively. This will enable the pipeline network to run
more efficiently and be capable of delivering up to 2 Bcf/d
of gas to Point Lisas as demand grows up to 2012.” |
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| Golden
Weld On Beachfield Upstream Development |
Commissioning of the new pipeline will commence in March
with first gas expected to flow in the line in second
quarter 2008. |
