Jubilee Field to shut down for 15 days

Oil production on the Jubilee Field will be shut down for 15 days, starting February 3, 2017, to allow for an interconnection with the Tweneboa, Enyera and Ntomme (TEN) operations.

The planned shutdown will lead to immediate curtailment of production and export of natural gas from the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah to the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant and subsequently stop the supply of lean gas from the plant to the power generating enclave at Aboadze.

However, the power generating companies have expressed readiness to switch to crude oil to ensure uninterrupted generation.

After the 15-day shutdown, the FPSO Atta Mills would be in a position to export a little more than 45 million standard cubic feet (mscf) of gas, enough to fire AMERI, while the TICO and the VRA units which were designed to use both gas and light crude could switch.

Currently, Ghana Gas is supplying a minimum of about 50mscf of gas to the Aboadze power enclave to fire AMERI.

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