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    Home » No end in sight for Ghana's Atuabo gas project

    No end in sight for Ghana's Atuabo gas project

    February 3, 2014
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    Mega oil gas petroleum refinery03 February 2014, Accra – The Ghanaian government’s quest of completing the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant (GPP) in the first and second quarters of this year would be a mirage, following the announcement that the multimillion dollar facility would rather be ready for commercial gas production in the last quarter of 2014.

    The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah disclosed this at the inauguration of a seven-member board of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) in Accra over the weekend.

    The 150 Million Metric Standard Cubic Feet per day capacity GPP is being constructed at Atuabo in the Ellembele District of the Western Region of Ghana.

    He explained that the April deadline could not be met due to some technical risks that needed to be prevented.

    Mr. Armah-Kofi Buah added: “From what I know, there are a lot of risks in there and so I do not believe anybody can come out and tell you that gas will flow in April”.

    According to him, there were several processes that the plant had to go through before it is ready for final production.

    Although the Ghana Gas Company Limited (GGC) and SINOPEC, the Chinese contractors executing the project, have come under serious pressure to complete the gas pipeline and processing plant, as volumes of supply from Nigeria have completely gone down, thereby threatening power generation in Ghana.

    The gas is meant to feed the Aboadze thermal plant to replace the use of crude oil in power production.

    The Jubilee partners – Tullow Plc, Kosmos, Anadarko, PetroSA and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) are equally concerned because the gas that is being re-injected into oil wells, awaiting the completion of the pipeline and plant, is standing in the way of attempts to crank up oil output to its peak of 120,000 barrels per day.

    According to officials of the energy ministry, the Jubilee partners are currently seeking approval from the government to flare gas from the Jubilee field which was discovered in 2007.

    But a renowned oil economist, Mohammed Amin Adam had warned that any decision by the government to allow the Jubilee partners to flare gas would risk the lives of several Ghanaians, fish, and other marine lives.

    – The Chronicle

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