{"id":461210,"date":"2018-02-03T20:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T20:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/atuabo-gas-plant-shut-down-wont-lead-to-dumsor-ghana-gas\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T20:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T20:05:36","slug":"atuabo-gas-plant-shut-down-wont-lead-to-dumsor-ghana-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/atuabo-gas-plant-shut-down-wont-lead-to-dumsor-ghana-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Atuabo gas plant shut down won\u2019t lead to \u2018dumsor\u2019-Ghana Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  3 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16620883.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana Gas 112\" title=\"Ghana Gas 112\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The country will not experience \u2018dumsor&#8217; following the shutdown of Atuabo Gas Processing plant<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517688336_428_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Communications Manager of Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah is assuring Ghanaians that the country will not experience load shedding popularly known as \u2018dumsor following the shutdown of Atuabo Gas Processing plant.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that GNGC engaged with all the relevant agencies such as the VRA, GRIDCO and EGG to put in place contingency measures to ensure that there is no \u2018dumsor\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Gas in a statement issued last Wednesday announced that the Atuabo Gas Processing plant will be shut down from February 1 to February 25, 2018 for a mandatory maintenance work.<\/p>\n<p>This has raised fears as among some many Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on Oman FM, Ernest Owusu Bempah allayed the fears of Ghanaians of possible \u2018dumsor\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had series of meetings with relevant agencies for the past three months. VRA has put in place contingency plan to make sure that they rely on other alternatives sources of energy to power their plants so that within that period there will be no problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Owusu Bempah stated that the current administration led by President Nana Akufo-Addo is putting measures in place to make sure that power crisis becomes a thing of the past in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Volta River Authority (VRA) says it has put in place contingency measures to avert gas supply shortfall that could occur as a result of the shutdown of Atuabo Gas Processing plant.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued and copied to Oman News, said: \u201cWe will operate up to two turbines on Light Crude Oil (LCO) in combined cycle mode to generate up to 300MW from Aboadze to support the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, VRA will receive on demand up to 200MW of power from La Cote d\u2019Ivoire to complement generation, \u201cthe statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement concluded that \u201cAll other VRA facilities; hydro, thermal and solar, are available and operating at optimum capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 73 updated by: 73 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 3 February 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com 2018-02-03 The country will not experience \u2018dumsor&#8217; following the shutdown of Atuabo Gas Processing plant The Communications Manager of Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah is assuring Ghanaians that the country will not experience load shedding popularly known as \u2018dumsor following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}