The Ghana National Gas Company Limited (Ghana Gas) has announced that it has resolved the challenges of the natural gas shortfall that led to power cuts in some parts of the country.
In a press statement, Ghana Gas Head of Corporate Communications, Ernest Kofi Owusu-Bempah, explained that an anomaly on-site power generation system caused the incident.
According to him, this led to a temporary shutdown of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant on Friday, July 7, leading to a shortage in gas supply to power-generating companies.
“This resulted in about a 30% reduction in the gas we deliver to our downstream power and non-power customers. Our engineers and third-party contractors worked assiduously around the clock to restore normal operations in 5 hours.”
“During the 5-hour outage, Ghana Gas made alternative arrangements for emergency mobile power generation units to enable natural gas to be transported to various power generation companies to mitigate the unexpected situation,” the statement read.
Ghana Gas noted that the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant was restarted at about 5:30 PM on Friday after hours of work to fix the problem.
“We deeply regret any inconvenience suffered by our cherished consumers,” the statement stressed.