Baker Hughes helps bp, Subsea7 bring on offshore Trinidad and Tobago development project

Offshore staff

HOUSTON — To support in unlocking Trinidad and Tobago’s energy future, bp needed to bring its offshore Cypre gas development project online as quickly and safely as possible. The project requires two new 14-km flexible flowlines—the longest flexibles to date in-country—to tie back seven wells and subsea trees to bp Trinidad and Tobago’s (bpTT’s) Juniper platform.

bpTT and its gas tieback provider Subsea7 tapped Baker Hughes to develop flexible pipe systems, on specification and on time, against a backdrop of global supply chain uncertainties.

Baker Hughes flexible pipe systems are designed to accelerate time to first production by simplifying the field layout. The flexible pipe will enable shorter supply time, increase vessel availability and allow for faster installation speeds. Baker Hughes says the flexible pipe systems also minimize environmental risks with durable designs that help optimize flow under extreme pressures, temperatures and corrosive production conditions.

Baker Hughes manufactures flexible pipe systems in its Newcastle, UK, facility. The Newcastle team quickly implemented a manufacturing and delivery plan for Cypre that included:

• Bespoke manufacture of pipe layers with unique characteristics that align with bpTT’s project requirements;
• Using custom-designed baskets with self-propelled modular trailers to rotate the baskets to ensure efficient flexible pipe load out, transportation and storage; and
• Collaboration with more than 10 other companies, all working together to ensure safe, reliable pipe delivery.

Collaborating with bpTT, Subsea7 and other project partners, Baker Hughes says it has successfully delivered the first phase of the project.

10.18.2023