The Ghana National Gas Company has announced that it will shutdown its Atuabo Gas Processing Plant from Monday, October 4 to Monday, October 18, 2021.
The planned shutdown is to allow for routine maintenance of the facility to improve upon the Atuabo Plant’s capacity of continuous productivity, as well as prolong its lifespan.
In a statement issued by the Corporate Communications Unit of Ghana Gas it said the planned outage is consistent with other shutdown planned by upstream and downstream players.
“All key stakeholders including Ghana Gas, Tullow Oil, ENI, Volta River Authority and MLE, have put in place necessary mechanism to reduce the shutdown duration which would have taken a total of 49 days to 14 days”.
During the Maintenance Shutdown, there shall be an installation of High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS) and maintenance works on the replacement of Small Bore Piping (SBP), Heat Exchanges cleaning, replacement of damaged Product Cooler, replacement of defective valves, re-calibration of of our Safety Critical Equipment including Pressure Safety Valves (PSVs).
The statement explained that “the key benefit of this shutdown is to enhance operability and reliability of our processing transportation infrastructure.”
The statement assured the stakeholders that Ghana Gas would work with all its partners to ensure system stability during the shutdown and minimise the impact on power supply.