On target: development plans at Trinidad & Tobago's Angostura gas field
BHP ready for Angostura second round
BHP Billiton, Australia's largest oil and gas producer, said today it has committed funding for a second phase of development at the Greater Angostura field in Trinidad & Tobago.
The project partners will spend about $400 million to construct and install a new gas export platform alongside the existing facilities. BHP's share of the costs will be $180 million.
The facility is expected to be online during the first half of 2011 and has a design capacity of 280 million cubic feet of gas per day, BHP said in a statement.
BHP said the project partners have already signed a sales agreement with the National Gas Company of Trinidad & Tobago, which will purchase all the gas from the second-phase development.
BHP has a 45% stake in the field. Partners Total and Talisman Energy have 30% and 25% respectively.
The Angostura oil and gas field has been in production since 2005 and has a production capacity of 60,000 barrels of oil per day.
The bulk of the gas produced under the first-phase development is being re-injected into the Angostura reservoirs to support oil production from the field.
BHP produced 116 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2007 and said in April that it was on track to increase petroleum output by 10% in 2008, buoyed by the start-up of the new projects off Australia's north-west coast and ventures in the US Gulf of Mexico.