Ghana Gas Company has reaffirmed that the shutdown of the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah at the Jubilee Field will not affect power supply. The halt is to run for fifteen days, to allow for an interconnection between the Tweneboa, Enyera, Ntomme (TEN) fields and the Jubilee Field for gas exportation to the Ghana Gas Company. The … Read more
Ghanaians could have some relief on how much they pay for utility, especially electrify, in the first 100 days of the new administration, the Energy Minister, Mr Boakye Agyarko has hinted. This would be the beginning of the implementation of the many policies in the energy sector aimed at delivering efficiently and bringing respite to … Read more
Already, industries are crying for immediate intervention from government to avert the challenge that confront the power generation industry. Energy experts have warned that any delay in ensuring adequate gas supply for power generation could result in power outages by end of the second quarter. Due to this, the African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) … Read more
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has called on the Ministries of Finance and Energy to urgently convince the Volta River Authority to settle its indebtedness to the Ghana National Gas Company. It said this was in order to prevent the VRA’s debts to Ghana Gas from spiralling to unmanageable proportions and thus compromising … Read more
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has called on the Ministries of Finance and Energy to urgently convince the Volta River Authority to settle its indebtedness to the Ghana National Gas Company. It said this was in order to prevent the VRA’s debts to Ghana Gas from spiralling to unmanageable proportions and thus compromising … Read more
The much awaited for the start of commercial production of gas from the country’s largest gas well being operated by ENI Gas Ghana is to receive the Floating, Production, Storage, Offloading (FPSO) vessel in March 2017. The Sankofa Gye Nyame Oil and Gas project, is the largest gas well which will soon produce natural gas … Read more
Tullow Oil has reduced the volume of gas it supply to Atuabo processing plant for the next 21 days, beginning November 1. The action has been influenced critical works on the turret, located on the Jubilee FPSO which will result in Tullow cutting current daily supply by 40 million standard cubic feet of gas. Corporate … Read more
The Ghana Gas Company has denied media reports that Ghana is building a 180-mile gas pipeline from Aboadze in the Western Region to Tema at a cost of $500 million. This denial follows a report in the Friday October 14 edition of the New Statesman that the Chief Executive Officer for the Ghana Gas Company, … Read more
Credible information available to The Finder suggests that an emergency technical challenge has led to a shutdown of the Ameri Plant, leading to a shortage in available power nationwide and a possible return to the unpleasant situation of power rationing. It is learnt that an explosion at the Aboadze Thermal Plant may have caused the … Read more
Ghana has begun supplying gasoline and gas oil to the landlocked countries of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali from the Bolgatanga Petroleum Depot. The state-owned Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) Limited is also supplying petroleum products from the depot to Benin and Nigeria. The Minister of Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, who made … Read more
In a bid to ensure industrial harmony at Ghana Gas, the biggest gas infrastructure facility in Ghana, officials of the company have resolved to reinstate workers whose appointments were terminated on account of misconduct. The decision to reinstate the workers follow an intervention by the Labour and Employment Minister Haruna Iddrisu. While 13 of the … Read more
The General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union, (GTPCWU), is petitioning the Ghana National Gas Company Limited over the dismissal and suspension of some workers at the Atuabo Gas Processing plant. A total of forty-five workers have been affected in various disciplinary measures taken by the management of the Ghana Gas Company Limited for demonstrating … Read more
The Ghana Gas Company has built a second standard overhead compressor unit at a cost of nine million dollars to serve as a back up any time the Atuabo processing plant is shut down for mandatory maintenance works. The cost of the compressor unit is from the company’s internally generated funds. In January 2016, the … Read more
The Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) has resumed gas supply to the Aboadze Thermal Plant in Takoradi after the Atuabo gas processing plant was shut down for routine maintenance. So far, Ghana Gas, the operators of the Atuabo gas processing plant, has supplied about 80 million standard cubic feet (mmscf) of gas to the … Read more
The Ghana Gas Company Limited has ruled out any significant impact of its ten day shutdown of the Atuabo gas processing plant, on the country’s power supply, for the period. The company is expected to shut down the facility from Wednesday, August 31, 2016; for routine maintenance. A statement on the exercise indicated that the … Read more
The Communications Manager of Ghana Gas Company Limited Alfred Ogbamey has assured that the ten-day closure of Ghana Gas at Atuabo will not have any adverse effect on power generation in the country. According to him, measures have been put in place to ensure that Ghanaians do not experience ‘Dumsor’. Ghana Gas Company yesterday announced … Read more
Ghana Gas Company Limited is to shut down the Atuabo gas processing plant for 10 days. The shut down to start from Wednesday, August 31 to help carry out some routine maintenance works on the facility in the Western Region. Communications Director of Company, Alfred Ogbamey tells JOYBUSINESS the shutdown is also part of an … Read more
The Ministry of Power has announced an end to load shedding in a statement released on Wednesday December 30. The three-paragraph statement signed by Kweku Sersah-Johnson, Head of Public Affairs, for the Power Minister, said ” the Ministry of Power wishes to inform the public that its load shedding programme in respect of electricity supply … Read more