Ghana Gas resumes supplies to VRA; 600mw to be added to grid

The Ghana Gas Company has resumed supply of gas to the Volta River Authority (VRA) to fire up plants in the Aboadze thermal enclave.

About a week ago, Ghana Gas had to suspend gas supplies to enable connection of the AMERI.

A statement signed by the company’s Corporate Communications Manager, Alfred Ogbamey, said VRA on 27 November 2015 requested the Ghana Gas to resume gas supply to its Aboadze Thermal enclave for power generation.

“The request is a result of the successful tie-in to the VRA’s main gas pipeline, which is expected to feed the AMERI plant once it is ready to generate electricity,” the statement said.

Ghana Gas has, therefore, begun the supply of an average 109 million standard cubic feet of gas (mmscf) a day to Aboadze.

The gas supply is expected to help VRA generate about 600 megawatts of power to the national grid and improve the current energy situation.

The statement also said the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant has also resumed continuous production of LPG and condensate.

Ghana Gas was supplying up to 115 mmscf of lean gas to VRA from the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant before the curtailment in supply of gas to Aboadze on 23rd November 2015 at the request of the VRA.

“The Atuabo Gas Processing Plant has the design capacity to process 150 mmscf of gas a day of raw gas from the Jubilee Field through the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, out of which 135 mmscf of lean gas is expected to be delivered to the VRA.

“The FPSO Kwame Nkrumah current maximum operating capacity is 120 mmscf of raw gas a day.”