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JP Morgan considers Venezuelan gas as a “backfill option for Trinidad & Tobago’s LNG facilities." Train 1 of Trinidad LNG’s three liquefaction trains is currently idled due to a lack of domestic feedgas.

Oct 11 (LNG) - Two LNG cargoes are heading for the UK in the next week from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and from the US Gulf Coast. The vessel “Magdala LNG” with 173,400 cubic metres capacity is scheduled to discharge a cargo on October 13 at the Dragon import terminal in Milford Haven, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on October 3 from the Point Fortin plant in Trinidad.

   The carrier “Minerva Amorgos” with 170,500 cubic metres capacity is due to deliver a shipment on October 18 to the Dragon terminal from the Freeport LNG plant in Texas. The cargo was loaded on October 5 at the Freeport facility.

UK major BP has announced the first natural gas flows from its Angelin development in Trinidad and Tobago to help underpin the future of the Caribbean nation’s liquefied natural gas exports and has a 10-year investment plan amounting to around $8 billion.

Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean nation that once sent most of the LNG cargoes imported into the US before the shale gas boom and still supplies one terminal, is widening its customer base while increasing sources of feed-gas for the Atlantic LNG liquefaction and export plant at Point Fortin on Trinidad.

Atlantic LNG, the Caribbean liquefaction and export plant for Trinidad and Tobago, has named Nigerian Philip Mshelbila as Chief Executive to replace incumbent Nigel Darlow of the UK, who has been at the helm since 2011.

Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean nation with an LNG export plant at Point Fortin in Trinidad, said its natural gas output rose to a two-year high in November as it supplied cargoes to Europe, South America and Asia and headed for higher liquefaction levels compared with 2016.

The Atlantic LNG production plant in Trinidad was shut down and evacuated when fire enveloped one of its power generating units sending black smoke and fire into the air at Point Fortin on the southwest of the Caribbean Island.

Norwegian-based consultancy and services company Add Energy was awarded a contract as part of the development of the Angelin natural gas field by BP in Trinidad to supply more feed-gas for the Atlantic LNG liquefaction and export plant at Point Fortin.

BP of the UK has advanced with more feed-gas plans for the Atlantic LNG export plant in Trinidad by signing a contract with US energy engineers McDermott International Inc. for a new natural gas field development.

June 2 (LNGJ) - BP of the UK has made two “significant gas discoveries” with the Savannah and Macadamia exploration wells offshore Trinidad. “The results of these wells have unlocked approximately 2 trillion cubic feet of gas in place to underpin new developments in these areas,” said BP, a shareholder in the Atlantic LNG plant at Point Fortin in the Caribbean island nation. “The Savannah exploration well was drilled into an untested fault block east of the Juniper field in water depths of over 500 feet, approximately 80 kilometres off the southeast coast,” said BP “Based on the success of the Savannah well, BP expects to develop these reservoirs via future tieback to the Juniper platform that is due to come online,” it added.