By Frederick ASIAMAH
The Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) has begun receiving gas from the Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) fields offshore Ghana.
The TEN gas supply to Ghana Gas comes as the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah on the Jubilee field shuts down for 10 days to allow for routine maintenance.
The amount of gas from the TEN field is 45 million standard cubic feet (mmscf) per day.
Officials of the company informed a team from the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) on Monday during a visit to the plant, which is located at Atuabo in the Ellembele District of the Western Region.
“I think that you have come on a momentous day in the sense that today is the first day that we are receiving a different type of gas from the TEN project; and we only started receiving it this morning,” Albert Mensah Tandoh, an engineer at Ghana Gas revealed when presenting on the “Ghana Early Phase Gas Infrastructure Project.”
Giving technical details, he said early analysis indicated that the “gas is not different” in composition from the sweet gas supplied from the Jubilee field. However, it could be different in the sense that even though the fields could be in close proximity to each other, there can be slight difference in the chemical composition of the gas.
“But so far so good. It is what we want,” he indicated.
Ing. Robert Kofi Lartey, the Director of Operations at Ghana Gas, intimated that the 45mmscf will be processed and supplied for power generation.
According to him, the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah was expected to kick-start at midnight Monday, the supplied of 150mmscf from the Jubilee field will be stayed for the period of the shutdown.
Business Day Ghana has learnt that there are no expected power supply interruptions because the 45mmscf will be supplied to the AMERI plant while the Volta River Authority’s Aboadze Thermal plant relies on crude oil storage to produce power.
GHEITI visit
Dr. Steve Manteaw, Co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) under the GHEITI, said the visit to the plant was part of work being done by the GHEITI in the district.
“We are here in this district to share our last report on mining, oil and gas. We did that this (Monday) morning at the assembly where we met the authorities there… Tomorrow we are meeting the chiefs and the communities.
“The hope is that there will be recommendations from these discussions that will feed into policy reforms.
“We thought it wise to come here to see the plant that we have been reporting on… We will be happy to see what the processes are so we can speak competently to it,” he concluded.
