The newly appointed Managing Director of the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo), Greg Germani, has told energynewsafrica.com that the company intends to expand its regulating and metering station in Tema to increase its capacity.
The move, according to Mr Germani, is as a result of the increasing demand in supply of gas for power plants in the Tema power enclave.
“Right now we are seeing a growing demand at Tema and we need to expand our Tema facility to meet the demand. So we are working with the support of the Ministry of Energy, Ghana National Petroleum Commission and Eni to expand our facility at Tema to increase the capacity so that more gas will be able to be delivered to the Tema enclave”.
Mr Germani said the Tema facility is being expanded from its current capacity of 140mmscfd to over 200mmscfd to meet the anticipated demands.
He noted that gas supply from Nigeria to Tema has increased saying, “We are starting to see flows from 90 to 110 mmscf a day”.
He said the completion of WAPCo’s new facility at Takoradi to receive natural gas from Ghana Gas facility has made it possible for WAPCo to transport natural gas from Takoradi to Tema. In June an average of 30mmscf of natural gas was transported daily from Takoradi to Tema, he said.
He said the pipeline is available and is run efficiently to operate at over 90 percent reliability to deliver gas from both ends, whether from Nigeria or from Takoradi in Ghana.
