The
Volta River Authority (VRA) says it cannot fully utilize the 120
million standard cubic feet gas produced by the Ghana National Gas
Company because some of its plants have shut down for maintenance.
According to the company, the said plants would be ready by March, this
year. Samuel Fletcher, Head of Corporate Communications of VRA, in a
statement, said the first TICO Unit has recently been returned to
service.
'We
expect the process of conversion to gas to be completed within the next
two weeks to increase gas consumption to about 80 million standard
cubic feet.' He said the second TICO Unit has been taken out of service
for scheduled maintenance and would be available in March, saying
'accordingly, the full 120 million standard cubic feet can be used from
March 2015. Mr Fletcher said the units at VRA's T1 and T3 plants have
been running on gas supply from Ghana Gas Company since November 2014.
'TICO
is therefore unable to immediately start operating on gas as the units
require some work before the fuel switch, he said. Mr Fletcher said TICO
Units have run solely on crude oil since completion in 2000 and
therefore need some to run successfully on gas. Ghana Gas has announced
that it is waiting for the Volta River Authority (VRA) to complete
requisite works at its Aboadze Thermal Plant Complex to enable it
increase the available generating capacity. Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Board
Chairman of Ghana Gas, who made this known in a statement released
recently, said once the VRA completes expansion works at its Aboadze
Thermal Plant Complex 'it will be possible for us to increase our
off-take of raw gas from the Jubilee Field's FPSO Kwame Nkrumah to
supply VRA lean gas at the optimal 120 million standard cubic feet per
day (120MMSCFD).'
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