Shell Trinidad and Tobago has taken FID on the Manatee offshore gas field development in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) of Trinidad and Tobago.
The company has a 100% operated interest under the sub-Block 6D production sharing contract.
The Loran-Manatee Field, discovered in 1983, was later appraised by four wells. Loran is the portion of the field in Venezuelan waters and Manatee is the section in Trinidad and Tobago waters.
In 2010, the two countries’ governments entered an agreement under which each can develop its respective share of Loran-Manatee.
Shell plans to install a normally unattended installation platform with eight development wells, exporting gas through a 110-km, 32-inch subsea pipeline to the company’s Beachfield gas processing complex.
From there, the gas would head to the Atlantic LNG facility and to the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago for domestic purposes.
The ECMA contains Shell’s largest gas-producing fields in Trinidad and Tobago, including Dolphin, Starfish, Bounty and Endeavour. Manatee’s gas will provide backfill for Atlantic LNG.
Production should start in 2027, building to a peak of about 104,000 bpe/d.
