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Tobago Pipeline

The 12-inch-diameter 54-km (33-mile) subsea pipeline which is to be constructed from BHP Billiton’s Central Processing Platform in the Angostura Field off East Coast Trinidad to Cove Eco-Industrial and Business Park, Tobago will terminate at an inlet gas receiving facility at the battery limits of the estate. To date a total of 98,589 man-hours were completed without a loss time incident.

Pipe manufacture is well underway with first shipment by manufacturers, Tennaris , arriving  in April and taken to be concrete coated by Bredero Shaw which has mobilized and set up two coating plants  at a site on Union Estate, La Brea .

~Completion date is scheduled for January 2011. 


(3)   Submitted draft Operating and Maintaining Procedures

KBR continued work on the Petrotrin Facility and during completed additional surveys.   Four new dedicated tanks will be constructed at the Petrotrin West Refinery.

NEO Pipeline

Based on the proposed construction of new petro-chemical and heavy industrial plants, it is anticipated there will be an accompanying increase in demand for gas of 350 - 450 MMscf/d by the year 2010.  However to accommodate this increase, NGC will need to expand its transmission network in an area where there is no pipeline infrastructure namely the north-east coast of Trinidad. 

NGC has entered into gas supply contracts with BHP Billiton, EOG Resources and BG.   BHPB will supply 230 MMscf/d from its Central Processing Platform in the Angostura field while EOG will supply 110 MMscf/d from its new Toucan platform.

NGC will therefore construct a 94-km (58-mile) pipeline from BHP’s Angostura field to connect into its BUD Slug Catcher at Abyssinia, south-east Trinidad. The line will be sized to transport future increases in supplies. Completion date for the project is scheduled for January 2011.

To date, man hours spent on the project were  94,558 MHs without loss time incident.

Liquid Fuels Pipeline System

The project expended 23,469 accident /incident free man-hours bringing the figure to date for the project to 67,839 man-hours without accident or incident.

Design contractors, Kellogg/Brown & Root (KBR), achieved the following:-

(1)   Completed the Process Design ,the control Systems designs, HAZOPS and SIL and the piping designs for the Caroni terminal

(2)    Carried Electrical  completion to 75%