THE Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has assured Ghanaians that the much anticipated gas plant in the Western Region will be ready when the first oil comes in the last quarter of the year.
It said as part of the long-term development plan of GNPC, the natural gas to be produced from the discovered fields would be channelled to serve the best interest of the people.
In a presentation in Singapore during the media tour of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel currently under construction, Mr Albert Longdon-Nyewan said a lot of work had been done on the quite and more were still ongoing.
He said the preparations included the construction of 600 million standard cubic metres per day processing plant, which would be used for thermal power generation, domestic purposes and for export.
Mr Longdon-Nyewan said work was currently ongoing with the installation of a riser platform offshore to serve as an aggregator, which would be connected to the gas from the FPSO and other fields.
“After the riser platform, there will be the construction of two 16 inch diameter pipeline to transport the conditioned gas from the riser platform to onshore to the processing plant. This will be followed with the construction of 20 inch and 10 inch diameter pipelines from the processing plant to Aboadze and Effasu respectively to supply dry gas for power generation,” he said.
He said in addition to domestic use, any excess dry gas would be supplied to industry and other petrochemical industries.
Mr Longdon-Nyewan said GNPC would continue with its aggressive promotion of Ghana’s hydrocarbon potentials to win more investors into the country.
GNPC, he said, hoped to become a world-class company capable of making Ghana the fastest-growing destination for investments in the industry in West Africa.
“We will also ensure the forceful development of human resource to meet the challenges in the oil/gas industry,” he added, saying that the GNPC had adopted the policy of zero flaring of gas to ensure the possibilities of turning the high deposit of gas to the advantage of Ghanaians.
It said since the announcement of Ghana’s intention not to flair the gas, there has been tremendous response from companies interested in the establishment of related industries including power generation.
He assured the public that GNPC in collaboration with her partners would ensure that the best industry practices were arrived at to enable both the partners and the country to derive the maximum output from the oil and gas fields.
“GNPC and its partner are working towards more discoveries as Ghana stands to benefit from these discoveries for its socio-economic development”.
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