Engineers are connecting Ghana Gas pipelines to the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCO) from Nigeria, and are originally scheduled to complete the work in 12 days. This also depends on the completion of extended works (Regulating and Metering Station-RMS) in Tema by ENI”. The whole purpose of this “tie-in,” according to Mr. Owusu Bempah, is to be able Ghana Gas to transport excess gas in the western enclave to feed the thermal generating plants in the eastern enclave. “This is a planned major shutdown for a strategic engineering works which will go a long way to improve power supply in Ghana. We sincerely call on Ghanaian to bear with us...and we assure them that power will be restored after the 12 days period,” he said.

Source: GhanaWeb April 02, 2019 18:56 UTC