Nigeria to resume gas supply to Ghana
APRIL 15, 2013


The West Africa Gas Pipeline Company will resume gas flow through its pipeline on April 30, 2013.

The company’s General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mrs. Harriet Wereko-Brobby, said this at the Lagos Beach Compressor Station in Badagry on Friday.

“We are looking at April 30, 2013 for the pipeline to be back,” she said.

The pipeline was damaged in August 2012 and this affected the company’s operations.

WAGPCO is jointly owned by Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic.

Wereko-Bobby said the damaged gas pipeline had been undergoing intensive repairs, including tests for leakages.

She said naval personnel from the four countries had also been charged to protect the facility.

Wereko-Brobby said efforts were underway for WAGPCO to enter into an agreement with Togo’s Navy to carry out strict surveillance on the gas equipment to avoid damage.

She said, “We are currently engaging with the host communities to ensure that such a breach does not occur again.

“We have also gotten the countries to agree on a pipeline protection zones (one mile from the pipeline). We are going to enter an agreement with the Navy to pay special attention to WAGPCO.”

She added, “We already have agreement with the Nigerian Navy to help protect the pipeline from sand mining and we are hoping to extend the agreement with them so that they can help us protect the pipelines in the offshore areas.

“We already have an agreement with the Navy in Benin, but the agreements with the Navy in Togo and Ghana for the protection of the pipelines are underway.”

Speaking in the same vein, the Supervisor, Lagos Beach Compressor Station, WAGPO, Mr. Olugbenga Agboola, explained that water entered the pipeline when it was breached.

“The pipeline had been repaired but we are at a cleaning process to ensure that we don’t supply dirty gas to our customers,” he said.

Meanwhile, there were concerns over the flaring of gas at the station during the repairs of the damaged pipelines.

The Health/ Environment & Safety Specialist, Mr. Romeo Obaye, said the plant was designed in such a way that gas could be flared in an environmentally-friendly manner.

He said the main by-products of the combustion (water and carbon dioxide) did not constitute any environment threat.

“We obtained air emissions permit from the Federal Ministry of Environment in February 2012. We also obtained flare permit for initial facility commissioning from DPR and another flare permit from DPR for pipeline re-commissioning following pipeline breach in August 2012,” he said.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/nigeria-to-resume-gas-supply-to-ghana-others/

freshair! soon we will not be depending on undependable sources, leakages indeed!

...We pass this na...we suppose dey sell to all west africa sef...


Meanwhile, GEJ on point. Truth is, I dnt have anything to say,
I just wan reserve this space shikena

hmmmmmmmm,couldnt complete it

Not only gas,we can equally supply them water too.

Na everything we dey give ghana?

Dem try sha 4 dis 1 sha.

Where is that useless Otumfor kenke headed guy! Though this is not a good one because person house dey on fire, him leave him own house wey dey catch fire go dey quench him neighbour fire...that na rubbish na.

After Ghana don opened back Nigerian Traders' Shop!

we be big brother naw.

DJDOLA: Na everything we dey give ghana?

'Give'? Are you this ignorant? Does Nigeria give them gas for free?Have you ever heard of International Trade before?
May be you also 'give' everything to US too! You give them gas and they give you money right? So what the fuss?

I have never heard of Saudi Arabians boasting because they sell oil and gas to US

[size=14pt]that is why they called their selves Giant of Africa [/size]

Any1 tagging this feat as "FRESH AIR" is simply ignorant! This project hv been on right from OBJ's era! Nigeria will keep on selling gas to Ghana and other countries that need it. If it's more profitable for them, then why are ppl criticizing the initiative?

Ok, where r dose ghanians? They should come and say, "thank you big brother", else....

Mad Cow:

Meanwhile, Nigeria power supply dropped because of no gas to power the turbines..

Why waste the gas on docile nigerians when we can make foreign currencies from ghana? I must increase my swiss bank account by $1M by the end of the year abi. My next five to ten generations will not have to lift a finger to work!! I will make sure i sort them out SHIKENA

i thought d reason why we are experiencing shortage of power is due to d reduced gas supply how come we will be selling gas dat is not enough 4 our own consumption to other countries in d name of ecowas who does dat and those people wont be grateful for our help at d end of d day are dis our leaders thinking straight

I hope we are selling it to them at the international price.
I don't want to hear that Nigeria is subsidizing gas supplied to any ECOWAS country o.

After beating them 6-1. Hissing

All of you that are saying *fresh air* ori gbogbo yin ti daru

This is what Ghanaians on NL would hate to hear.

On point!

Supplying gas to your neighbour wen ur house never get am belle full


#.. Na crase world be dat oo

A step forward. One thing when i sabi abt nigeria be say, we sabi do big manility whereas chi chi nor dey 4 our pple.

Pretending as giant of afrika, hope we wont die in silence

DJDOLA: Na everything we dey give ghana?

fuelish comment! u r not giving,you are selling.so correct yourself.by the way,Ghana is not the only country nigeria sells gas to.nigeria sell far bigger volumes of gas 2 others under LNG.

we use less gas in Nigeria if compare with Ghana.

lacasa: Supplying gas to your neighbour wen ur house never get am belle full

nigeria supplies a tiny 100 million cf of gas 2 ghana daily.compare that with d huge gas it supplies 2 europe n americas under d LNG project.

slimming: we use less gas in Nigeria if compare with Ghana.

you are talking about LPG.LPG is subsidised by d Ghana govt as part of a drive 2 stem d use of wood fuel etc.yes,more households in Ghana use lpg than Nigeria.

This is nonsense

other countries are going green....by the time we harness the power of the sun....Alaska would have already done it!!

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Chanchit: This is what Ghanaians on NL would hate to hear.

hate to hear what?what is wrong with ghana buying gas from nigeria?you dont know nigeria sell far,far more gas to countries in europe,americas etc?no one talks about that