Jantuah hails Ghana Gas over plans to build new gas plant

The chief executive of African Energy Consortium Limited, Kwame Jantuah, has commended the Ghana National Gas Company for initiating steps to build a second gas plant in the country.

Jantuah said the plant could be strategic in halting the import of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

“Let me congratulate Ghana Gas; they’re building another gas factory just next door to what we have, so that we do not have to import LPG. We can now do more, and I congratulate them,” Jantuah told Asaase News.

“We can manufacture more of our gas, fertiliser, there are so many things we could do with the gas, these are some of the positive stuffs that we could have done with the Tema Oil Refinery,” he added.

Listen Kwame Jantuah in the attached audio clip below:

New plant

Ghana National Gas Company has signed a Project Implementation Agreement with its joint venture partners to construct a second Gas Processing Plant (GPP Train 2) at an estimated cost of US$700 million.
The plant, to be sited at Atuabo in the Ellembele District of the Western Region, is expected to be completed within 24 months.

It would generate 1,500 direct and indirect jobs within the Atuabo power enclave.

At the signing ceremony in Accra, Dr Benjamin K D Asante, the chief executive officer of the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC), signed for Ghana Gas, while Dr Hilton John Mitchell, a representative of the Consortium, comprising the Integrated Logistics Bureau Limited, Jonmoore International, Phoenix Park Limited and African Finance Corporation, signed for the rest of the partners.

The construction of a second train gas processing plant with a nominal capacity of 150 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd), expandable to 300 MMscfd, would process incremental raw gas volumes from the Greater Jubilee and TEN fields.

The new gas processing facility forms part of the GNGC’s strategic development plan and is expected to increase the national gas processing capacity to 450 MMscfd.

It will process raw gas with natural gas liquids (NGLs) being fractionated into pure components like propane, butane, pentane and stabilised condensate components from the Jubilee and TEN Fields.

The lean gas, containing methane and ethane, shall be tied in into the lean gas export from the existing GPP Train 1 and delivered into the onshore export pipes.

Some of the components of the GPP Train 2 are the construction of a 150 MMscfd capacity processing plant, expandable to 300 MMscfd, a storage facility, an additional compressor package at Atuabo Mainline Compressor Station and provision of utilities and a liquid waste treatment system.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the board chairman of Ghana Gas, said the project, upon completion, would enhance the operations of the GNGC and boost the utilisation of the country’s gas resources for the Government’s industrialisation agenda.

Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, said the facility would play a critical role in Ghana’s energy transition objectives of using renewable energy sources for industrial purposes to reduce global carbon emissions.

Dr Asante, the CEO of Ghana Gas, said the project would enable Ghana Gas to become a fully integrated gas services company and reliably supply gas and gas derivatives in Ghana and to the West African Sub-region.

It would further fulfil the company’s vision of supplying gas in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner, he said.

The new plant, upon coming on stream, he said, would improve the output of liquids processed from natural gas to 80%, compared to the existing facility, which produced between 40 and 50% of gas liquids.

The plant would help the nation to generate more megawatts of electricity and ultimately resolve the perennial power outages (dumsor) experienced in Ghana, Dr Asante said.

The by-products from the processed gas could be used to manufacture fertilizer, which would boost the agriculture industry and ultimately reduce the country’s fertilizer import.

Andrew Egyapa Mercer, a deputy minister of energy, said the project would be a useful additional infrastructure in the country’s power generation system.

It would also support the government’s efforts in providing an alternative power supply to drive socio-economic development.

Dr Hilton John Mitchell, who spoke on behalf of the joint venture partners, expressed the Consortium’s commitment to working collaboratively with the GNGC to deliver the gas processing plant on schedule and in a cost-effective manner.

The Ghana National Gas Company was established in July 2011 as a limited liability company with the responsibility to build, own and operate natural gas infrastructure required for gathering, processing, transportation and marketing of gas.

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