Atuabo Gas Plant to get back up compressor

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• Sankofa 9 years ago

  What kind of engineering practice and planning is going on in Ghana where I did have my basic education? I know every car has to have a spare tire and not wait till the existing one on the car burst in traffic before procuri ...
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  What kind of engineering practice and planning is going on in Ghana where I did have my basic education? I know every car has to have a spare tire and not wait till the existing one on the car burst in traffic before procuring a new one and that is what the minister is trying to explain to Ghanaians. Is it not pitiful as nation to have such policy on planning of such magnitude?

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• T'pau 9 years ago

  Sankofa, I would assume that, the operating compressor has spare parts for emergency fault fixing of its internal components. What the second one being procured will do is to eliminate downtime when the operating compressor i ...
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  Sankofa, I would assume that, the operating compressor has spare parts for emergency fault fixing of its internal components. What the second one being procured will do is to eliminate downtime when the operating compressor is undergoing maintenance; that is, serve as redundancy or duplication. The reason why such redundancy was not in place in the first place is obviously and most probably due to cost.
  
  Using your example, when you are ready for work and you realise you have a flat tyre, you will spend about 20 minutes to replace it with the spare. But if you had a second car (redundancy), you will save 20 minutes of your time. You may, however, not have a second car because the cost implications is not justifiable.
  
  In the case of a plant like Atuabo Gas which is considered a Critical Infrastructure of national concern, it is risky to ignore redundant equipment of reasonable capacity to complement its operations and blame it on cost. I do agree, the procurement of the 'spare' compressor is long overdue.

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• Sankofa 9 years ago

  You must be a lawyer because if you were an engineer you would have failed in your response to the reason for my question of spare compressor which in the first world becomes part of the planning in the first place. You might ...
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  You must be a lawyer because if you were an engineer you would have failed in your response to the reason for my question of spare compressor which in the first world becomes part of the planning in the first place. You might have another reason to respond to the guffaw so let us be at peace and hope that in future there will be better planning and not hit and miss. THANK YOU.

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• JM 9 years ago

  DEAR MINISTERS PLEASE THE SABOTAGE IS TOO MUCH . PLEASE DO WELL TO RAISED PREZ. MAHAMA HIGH. SO SO CHOP CHOP. DONT YOU KNOW; YOU NEED BACK-UP FOR SUCH BIG PROJECT FOR LONG YANKY?PREZ MAHAMA NEXT TIME TRY TO HAVE GOOD TECHNICA ...
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  DEAR MINISTERS PLEASE THE SABOTAGE IS TOO MUCH . PLEASE DO WELL TO RAISED PREZ. MAHAMA HIGH. SO SO CHOP CHOP. DONT YOU KNOW; YOU NEED BACK-UP FOR SUCH BIG PROJECT FOR LONG YANKY?PREZ MAHAMA NEXT TIME TRY TO HAVE GOOD TECHNICAL TEAM ADVICERS NOT ONLY COMMUNICATION TEAMS.

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• Ghanaba 9 years ago

  What a pity indeed! How do build a system at a cost of over $600 million and not have a backup system as part of the integrated system? SMH

  What a pity indeed! How do build a system at a cost of over $600 million and not have a backup system as part of the integrated system? SMH

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• DEAR 9 years ago

  IT WAS COMMON SENSE TO HAVE PROCURED A BACK UP COMPRESSOR AT THE INITIATION OF THE PROJECT.

  IT WAS COMMON SENSE TO HAVE PROCURED A BACK UP COMPRESSOR AT THE INITIATION OF THE PROJECT.

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