Equipment to facilitate gas supply from Ghana’s oil producing fields, Tweneboa Enyera Ntomme (TEN) and the Jubilee field, to Ghana Gas at Atuabo is ready to be installed.
Fabrication works on gas export manifold and suction piles that will be used to harness gas from the oil fields is completed at the Takoradi Port.
The manifold and suction piles which have been transported from the Takoradi Port to the gas and oil fields in the region, is to be installed on the seabed to connect the TEN and Jubilee gas export pipelines to the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) pipelines at Atuabo.
The laid pipelines is to transmit gas to the Volta River Authority (VRA) for electricity generation.
The gas export manifold, weighing 145 tonnes, was fabricated by a local engineering firm, Belmet 7, in partnership with Subsea 7. The two companies engaged local welders from Takoradi and its environs to produce the manifold and suction piles.
Hitherto, the establishment of a fabrication yard at the Takoradi Port, gas export manifolds used in the country’s oil fields were imported at huge cost to the oil and gas companies.
The Public Affairs and Marketing Manager at the Takoradi Port, Mr Peter Amo Bediako, has noted that the manifold and suction piles, which took eight months to fabricate, had given more meaning to the local content policy being spearheaded by the government.
He said the Takoradi Port had been positioned to become the main logistics support base for the country’s oilfield management.
Mr Bediako expressed the hope that the industry service providers would call on the port to provide the necessary assistance that would ensure the building of a robust oil and gas sector in Ghana.
Source: Adnan Adams Mohammed
