Atuabo Gas Processing Plant to be temporarily shut down

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January 3, 2016 1:36 PM

The temporary shutdown is to allow mandatory maintenance works to be undertaken on the plant.

Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) has announced a temporary shut down of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant on January 15.

This is to allow mandatory maintenance works to be undertaken on the plant.

A statement signed by the Corporate Communications Manager at Ghana Gas, Alfred Ogbamey explained that “the planned maintenance, the second since lean gas and associated liquids production began at Atuabo, is expected to last approximately fourteen (14) calendar days.”

According to him, the plant has been in operation for more than 8,000 hours since last year and “as previously communicated to the general public, this mandatory outage is required by original equipment manufacturers and vendors for maintenance of certain critical components in the gas processing plant on a periodic basis, as well to facilitate warranty assurance on the installed equipment and the validity of our operating insurance cover.”

Mr. Ogbamey mentioned that Ghana Gas is in communication with the Volta River Authority (VRA), the primary downstream lean gas off-taker, and the other product off-takers, as well as the upstream gas supplier, Tullow Ghana Limited, to ensure a smooth implementation and completion of the planned maintenance works.

He promised that the Company will update appropriate stakeholders on the progress of work.

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