Tullow gas cut won’t spark dumsor - Ghana Gas

Tullow’s 50% power cut to Ghana Gas will not have an impact on the power situation in the country, Corporate Communications Manager of Ghana Gas Alfred Ogbamey has said.

A statement from Ghana Gas said Tullow, lead manager for the Jubilee field, had reduced gas supply to the company by 40 million standard cubic feet a day.

“Tullow has consequently revised downward available natural gas supply from the present 90 million standard cubic feet of gas a day (mmscfd) to 50 mmscfd.”

Explaining the implications to Prince Minkah on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, 2 November, Corporate Communications Manager of Ghana Gas, Alfred Ogbamey, said: “We’ll lose needed revenue from the loss within that period.

It will lead to an overall reduction of various gas products that we generate onto the market. … In terms of energy or power or dumsor, it might not necessarily have an effect. We are reliably informed that Akosombo is improving … so it’s brought in some little extra energy. … Beyond that there has been an arrangement to purchase power from Ivory Coast … and then again government acquired substantial volumes of crude oil …”

The reduction in gas supply is to enable Tullow do “critical turret remediation works required upstream.”