Corporate Affairs and Information
WATER AND GAS FACILITIES RECEIVE ATTENTION
The Water and Gas Facility Division is the Company’s
outfit designed to provide the Company with such
utility services as Industrial Water, Industrial Gases,
Natural Gases, Compressed Air, Fuel Oil, and Steam for
sundry uses in the Plant. The Division also covers the
maintenance of Ventilation and Air Conditioning
systems, removal and disposing of domestic and
Industrial wastes, and the distribution of drinking water
within the Steel Plant.
The Division is charged with the responsibility of
operating and maintaining all equipment and facilities
that are involved in the lifting of raw water from the
River Niger, Treatment of water to Industrial Standard
and the distribution of the treated water to consumers
through network of pipelines and pump houses.
It also treats and disposes off sludge and sanitary
effluence of various producing shops.
Water supplied by the Division is mainly used for the
cooling of Furnaces of the Mills, TPP/TBS (Power
Plant), Coke Oven-Product Plant, all Primary Plant. It
is also used for the transportation of process wastes,
firefighting and other purposes. Potable water from the
Geregu treatment Plant is received and distributed to
appropriate points of consumption at the Steel Plant.
All facilities are designed to ensure re-circulation of
process water through an array of re-circulating pump
houses.
Raw water is received from River Niger. The water is to
be subjected to treatment. As a result of the none
treating of the of water for many years, the 2Nos
3000M3 reservoirs have been filled up to 70% by mud
thereby leaving only 30% effective capacity. This level
of availability will not ensure adequate supply of water
to the Thermal Power Plant which is currently being
reactivated, the Engineering Works Complex and other
parts of the steel plant.
As part of the ongoing reactivation exercise in the steel
plant, the two reservoirs have been restored through the
evacuation of the large volume of mud. In the absence
of some desired equipment, the Engineers and workers
designed other ways and successfully carried out the
assignment.
TECHNICAL AUDIT OF AJAOKUTA STEEL PLANT (ASP)
IN FULL SWING BY ASCL ENGINEERS In 2018-03-13TECHNICAL AUDIT OF AJAOKUTA STEEL PLANT (ASP)
IN FULL SWING BY ASCL ENGINEERS
In a bid to ascertain the technical status of the
Ajaokuta Steel Plant (ASP) facilities, the Federal
Government of Nigeria has ordered a technical audit of
the Steel Plant facilities. This exercise is intended to
provide the government the basis for deciding further
on its desire to get the Steel Project completed,
commissioned and put in sustainable operations. The
exercise commenced on the 28th of February, 2018.
The audit is being wholly undertaken by Nigerian
Engineers, Technologists and Technicians involving
serving and retired staff of Ajaokuta Steel Company
Limited. It is hoped that using these category of
persons will reveal the correct status of the various
aspects of the Plant and provide raw data for future
reference which previous exercises did not do.
For the purpose of the exercise, forty (40) Technical
Work Teams have been created under the supervision of
a Management Coordination Committee and a Technical
Implementation Committee which drives the daily
activities of the Work Team. The Management of
Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited has also engaged
Consultants on Metallurgical Technology, and
Metallurgical Business to provide advice to the Work
Teams. The Management is also consulting with the
Nigerian Society of Engineers for Technical Advice.
The Technical Audit exercise has since gone into full
swing. All Pre-Technical Audit activities such as site
clearing, fumigation of basements & tunnels,
illumination of shops, creating accessibility to sealed
doors and provision of Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE) have been concluded.
The detailed inspection of the shops has since
commenced and is progressing steadily. Eight weeks
target for detailed inspection has been set, after which
report writing including costing of works and materials
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