(Ecofin Agency) - Ghana Gas has announced that the Atuabo Gas processing plant which was shut down on January 15, 2016, for routine maintenance has resumed operations.

The CEO of Ghana Gas Company, George Sipa Yankey, noted that the routine maintenance was successfully concluded nine days ahead of the planned 14 days period. Yankey affirms that the plant currently conveys more than 110 Mmscf of gas to the Aboadze Thermal plant for power generation.

The Atuabo Gas processing plant which had been in operation for 8,000 hours, above the advisable period of 4,000 hours was shut down for routine works while the gas from the Jubilee oil fields was flared for the period that the plant was shut down.

Yankey told Esi-Africa that the company has granted a Canadian-based company a $9 million contract to build a second standard overhead compressor unit.

“We are going to install a second compressor here. If we are able to do that, we may not necessary have to shut down the plant after every 4,000 hours. We have to shut down every 4,000 hours to service and overhaul our compressors here. And so if we have a second one, when we are ready to overhaul the first compressor, the second one also starts to operate,” he said.

Anita Fatunji