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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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