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Government finalizes arrangements on Natural Gas
Processing Plant
Accra, Dec. 18, Ghanadot/GNA – The government has finalized
arrangements to establish a Natural Gas Processing plant
on-shore Atuabo in the Western Region to process the gas
that will be produced in association with the crude oil from
the Jubilee Oil and Gas Field.
A release signed by Mr Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to the
President and Presidential Spokesman, said the first phase
will entail a 150 million cubic feet gas processing plant to
be located at Atuabo, a coastal town in the Western Region.
It said the gas processing plant and the related pipeline
infrastructure is estimated at 775 million US dollars.
The release said the natural gas will be processed into dry
gas at the Atuabo plant for power generation at Effasu in
the Western Region and will also be processed into Liquefied
Petroleum Gas for domestic consumption and propane and
condensates for export.
It said the establishment of the plant will be a significant
landmark in Ghana’s industrialization drive, which will lay
the foundation for development of a petro-chemical industry
in Ghana.
It stated that downstream processing facilities would be set
up to produce ethanol, methanol and propane for export,
fertilizers for domestic agricultural uses and granules
which is the main ingredient for the plastic industry.
The gas project would enable optimum use of the oil and gas
resources of the Jubilee Field both onshore and offshore and
will open up the coastal areas of the Western Region for
businesses and create employment for the people.
It said a track of land measuring eight square kilometres
was being acquired for the project and would be developed
into petro-chemical industrial park to house the gas
processing plant and the ancillary industries.
GNA
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