West Africa Gas pipeline completed

In an address read for him by Mr Aderemi Oladapo, General Manager of WAPCo in-charge of Operations at a stakeholder forum, Mr Derickson said in April this year, the company supplied gas to the Volta River Authority (VRA) station at Aboadze under an interim sales arrangement.

However, he said, the company since May this year has ceased to receive gas supply due to the destruction of several hundred kilometers of gas supply pipelines in the Niger Delta region.

Mr Derickson said the company’s compressor station in Lagos, which would enable it to transport higher volume of gas from Nigeria to Ghana and to Benin, was still under construction.

In addition, he said, the facilities including the regulating and metering stations that would enable gas to be received from offshore in Tema, Lome and Cotonou were expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2010.

He said once they were completed, WAPCo would have the compression capacity to deliver to VRA enough gas to power four 110 megawatt turbines as well as supply customers in Benin and Togo.

Mr Derickson said under its Community Development Program, the company had provided health, education and sanitation facilities to a number of communities at a total cost of about GH¢830,000.

Source: Modern Ghana