{"id":465901,"date":"2018-02-20T11:21:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/government-determined-to-set-up-fertilizer-plant-at-jomoro\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T11:21:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:21:34","slug":"government-determined-to-set-up-fertilizer-plant-at-jomoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/government-determined-to-set-up-fertilizer-plant-at-jomoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Government determined to set up fertilizer plant at Jomoro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>thebftonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-20<\/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\/27475083.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ernest Owusu Bempah Ghana Gas Company\" title=\"Ernest Owusu Bempah Ghana Gas Company\" width=\"295\" height=\"241\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Communications Director of Ghana National Gas Company, Ernest Owusu-Bempah<\/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\/1519125694_533_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ernest Owusu-Bempah, Communications Director of Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) has stated that government, is determined to establish a fertilizer factory at Jomoro District in the Western Region using Isopentane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsopentane is a by-product which has immense importance from the gas plant; the fertilizer factory, is in line with the current shut down of the gas plant at Atuabo in the Ellembelle District; engineers are connecting pipelines to aid in the transportation of the Isopentane from the plant to where the factory will be situated\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This, he pointed out will be as soon as possible to get the fertilizer plant on-going.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Owusu-Bempeh said this during an interaction with the media in Takoradi on why the Gas Plant has been shut down and the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he said government is looking at using gas as a cheaper alternative source of energy, which is the industrialization of government\u2019s agenda of one district one factory where most of the tie-ins that will be done is going to be centered on the Eastern Corridor power enclave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where where we are going to have full maximum gas supply to the area so it can help accelerate industrial growth\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that gas will be the key energy supplier for the government\u2019s railways expansion project.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that the shutdown of the gas plant is to ensure routine maintenance work as well as to take up multipurpose projects with its partners such as Tullow, ENI and Volta River Authority (VRA).<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Owusu-Bempeh commended the efforts of the local engineers of the company for leading the processes in ensuring the successful shutdown of the Gas Plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assure journalists in the Western Region that my outfit will continue to engage you to provide credible and reliable information to the public on issues concerning the Gas Plant.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Maxwell Kwame Kally, Senior Manager Engineering and Maintenance of Ghana Gas explained that the shutdown of the Gas Plant is to allow a team of engineers to undertake a planned routine maintenance of the facility and to help improve upon its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shutdown which started on February 1 will end by February 25,2018; stakeholders including Tullow oil, ENI, Volta River Authority among others, have put in place the necessary mechanisms to address any concern\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>During the shutdown period, he said expansion works will be carried out on the company\u2019s regulating and meeting station infrastructure at Takoradi to help increase its gas handling capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sampson Kekebi Doh, Senior Manager in charge of Operations at Ghana Gas said, the flaring of gas will be minimal this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis, is so because most of the excess gas will be used to generate power and the rest will also be channeled to the fertilizer production factory\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 3 updated by: 3 --><\/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>Business News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018 Source: thebftonline.com 2018-02-20 Communications Director of Ghana National Gas Company, Ernest Owusu-Bempah Ernest Owusu-Bempah, Communications Director of Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) has stated that government, is determined to establish a fertilizer factory at Jomoro District in the Western Region using Isopentane. \u201cIsopentane is a by-product which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465901","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\/465901","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=465901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}