Ghana’s $1.2b gas plant soon to be completed

Ghana’s commercial oil production started on December 15, 2010 after President John Evans Atta Mills symbolically turned the wheel on the FPSO vessel to signify the beginning of the country’s first oil.

The government is making efforts to put in place structures for the country’s nascent oil sector.

A deputy Minister of Information, Mr Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa has been cited by the Daily Graphic saying that Ghana’s $1.2 billion gas industrialisation project at Bonyere in the Western Region which is expected to produce 300 million cubic feet of gas from the Jubilee Field daily is at an advanced stage.

According to the newspaper, Mr Ablakwa explained that as part of the Bonyere gas processing project, a 150km gas pipeline would be laid from Bonyere to the Aboadze Thermal Plant at Aboadze to expand the country’s capacity to generate more energy to ensure stable electricity supply.

When completed, the project would carry gas offshore from the Jubilee Field to the gas plant for processing, it said.

Mr Ablakwa added that a multi-million dollar fertiliser processing plant would also be established in the Western Region using ammonia and urea from wet gas from the Jubilee Field.

By Ekow Quandzie
ghanabusinessnews.com