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                                                    Cassia C is bpTT’s first offshore gas compression platform (Image: BP)
                         The Cassia C platform’s jacket – that is, its legs   This first offshore compression facility will allow
                         and supporting frame – was built at TOFCO   us to unlock new resources and bring much-
                         (Trinidad Offshore Fabricators) and then   needed gas to market. I am immensely proud
                         installed in 2020, while the topside structure   of the teams [that] have been working hard to
                         was constructed at the McDermott fabrication   bring this facility on line.”
                         yard in Altamira, Mexico and then installed the   Ewan Drummond, BP’s senior vice presi-
                         following year, BP explained.        dent for projects, production, and operations
                           It also called Cassia C an “important step”   added: “I am proud of our achievement to
                         within the framework of bpTT’s Area Develop-  deliver this project while keeping our people
                         ment Plan. This plan sets the pace and direction   safe throughout a global pandemic. Cassia C is
                         of the company’s hydrocarbon development   a great example of BP’s resilient hydrocarbons
                         operations at its licence areas within Trinidad   strategy in action – providing the energy the
                         and Tobago’s offshore zone, and it encompasses   world needs now and helping us invest in the
                         the exploration and production programmes   energy transition. I would like to thank our team
                         that are designed to maximise the company’s   for their commitment in the safe execution of
                         production.                          this project.”
                           David Campbell, bpTT’s president, com-  BP currently operates 16 offshore platforms
                         mented: “First gas from Cassia C is an impor-  in Trinidad and Tobago’s offshore zone, as well
                         tant milestone for BP in Trinidad and Tobago.   as two onshore processing facilities. ™




                                                        GUYANA
       BP affiliate to market Guyanese oil in 2023






                         GUYANA’S government has granted a subsid-
                         iary of BP (UK) the right to market its share of
                         crude oil extracted from the Liza-1 and Liza-2
                         oilfields at the offshore Stabroek block in 2023.
                           The Ministry of Natural Resources
                         announced that BP International had won the
                         marketing contract for next year on November
                         24. It noted that the subsidiary of the UK-based
                         super-major had won out over 13 other com-
                         petitors, but it did not identify any of the other    BP International will load and sell cargoes of Guyanese oil (Photo: ExxonMobil)
                         bidders or divulge the terms of BP Internation-
                         al’s offer.                          Gunvor (Switzerland), Heritage Petroleum Co.
                           According to previous reports, the other par-  Ltd (Trinidad and Tobago), Petraco (Brazil),
                         ticipants in the tender had included ADNOC   an affiliate of PetroChina (China), Shai-Oil
                         Trading (UAE), BB Energy Trading (UK), an   (unknown), TotalEnergies (France), Trade-Oil
                         affiliate of China National Offshore Oil Corp.   (Côte d’Ivoire), Tullett Prebon Americas (US)
                         (CNOOC), an affiliate of Equinor (Norway),   and Vitol (Switzerland).



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