Ernest Owusu Bempah
THE LAYING of
pipelines from the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant to the relocated Karpowership at
the Sekondi Naval Base in the Western Region is about 98 per cent complete.
This will
pave the way for the Ghana Gas Company Limited to push its first gas from the
Atuabo Gas Processing Plant to the Karpowership by October 31, this year.
The 470
Megawatts Powership, which was operating on heavy fuel oil, was sailed from its
previous point in Tema to Sekondi to utilize natural gas from Atuabo.
The Communications
Director at Ghana Gas, Ernest Owusu Bempah, told the media in Takoradi.
“We are
expected to deliver almost about 60 to 90 million cubic feet of gas daily and
if everything goes on well, this can produce about 450 to 470 megawatts of
electricity for the people of Ghana,” he added.
He said the
pipelines to power the Karpowership were currently undergoing
tests. “Currently, the engineers are doing the testing and commissioning
of the gas pipeline. They pushed nitrogen gas in the pipelines to
neutralize the pressure in the lines to see whether the pipelines are cleaned
internally. Everything is okay now and there are no problems with the
pipelines,” he added.
He said it
was necessary that all technical engineering work was done to ensure that
everything was on point before pushing the first gas from the gas processing
plant at Atuabo.
The
relocation of the Karpowership was in line with the government’s strategic policy
for the ship to utilize natural gas from the Western Enclave to save money for
the country.
After being shut down for over three weeks due to the relocation, the company began power production in September, this year.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi
