Mahama: Atuabo Gas will help transform economy

The Atuabo Gas Processing Plant in the Western Region will help positively transform Ghana’s economy, President John Mahama has said.

The 150-Million Metric Standard Cubic Feet per day capacity Gas Processing Plant is run by the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) – which Finance Minister Seth Terkper recently said would be taken over by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).

The 111-km pipeline will feed the country’s thermal power stations with gas, as part of efforts to lessen Ghana’s reliance on gas from the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGPco) in Nigeria, for energy production.

Unreliable gas supply from WAGPco has contributed to Ghana’s worsening energy crisis.

The Atuabo Gas Processing Plant was recently commissioned and has started feeding the Abaodze Thermal Plant in the Western region with gas – a development President Mahama said he is excited about.

“As I speak, 30 million standard cubic feet of gas are available to our power enclave in Aboadze, and that is going to be ramped up to 60 million standard cubic feet in the next two or three days and so that is a positive development and I think that it’s going to have a transformational impact on the Ghanaian development,” Mahama told Aljazeera in an interview aired Sunday night.

“It is to bolster that and to step it up that we are looking at additional regasification badges and to bring LNG from places like Qatar, to be able to power other thermal plants that we have,” the President mentioned.

He said: “One of the major things we seek to secure is energy security.”




Source: Ghana/agooeast.com