Individuals and businesses should brace themselves up for more power outages in the coming days, following the decision of the Nigerian authorities to stop gas supplies to Ghana. The decision, which took effect from yesterday, followed labour unrest in Nigeria. “The Nigerian authorities communicated this bad news to us this afternoon. We are working out emergency measures to forestall adverse effects on individuals and industry,” a highly placed source at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum told the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday. “What the stoppage of gas flow to Ghana means is that the Asogli Power Plant will shut down because it runs only on gas,” it said. The Asogli Power Plant was augmenting Ghana’s energy needs with an average of 180 megawatts (MW). “This is certainly not good because other power plants are operating below capacity due to maintenance schedules, delay in crude oil supply and other factors,” the source said. Ghanaians, local and foreign businesses have been grappling with problems associated with the intermittent supply of electricity for several months. The water level in the Akosombo Dam keeps dropping while power plants in the country continuously operate below capacity. Therefore, the suspension of gas supply from the West African Gas Pipeline will aggravate an already precarious power situation. Despite the challenges, the source gave an assurance
that work was on schedule to tie the Atuabo Gas Plant to the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is being operated by Tullow Oil plc. Thermal plants in the country are also expected to be powered by the gas which will flow from the Atuabo Gas Plant. Additionally, two power barges expected to generate a total of 450 MW are being built in Turkey and are expected to be shipped to Ghana before the end of the second quarter of 2015. Meanwhile, the first power barge, which has a capacity of 225 MW, has been constructed. There was an eight-month break in gas supplies from Nigeria to Ghana after a vessel broke one of the gas pipelines in Togo in August 2012. Ghana’s demand for electricity is between 1,800 and 2,000 MW, but it is targeting 5,000 MW by 2016. It wants to have enough to export to other West African countries by the end of 2016.
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Did u have to spell Ghana as "Gayna"??

Only u will beef withSouth westerners and northerner......you even added Ghanians to your list......

Is it like your hobby, passion or somthing??

ba7man: Did u have to spell Ghana as "Gayna"??

Only u will beef withSouth westerners and northerner......you even added Ghanians to your list......

Is it like your hobby, passion or somthing??

He clearly does not have a life. Lol

Collynzo17: Individuals and businesses should brace themselves up for more power outages in the coming days, following the decision of the Nigerian authorities to stop gas supplies to Ghana. The decision, which took effect from yesterday, followed labour unrest in Nigeria. “The Nigerian authorities communicated this bad news to us this afternoon. We are working out emergency measures to forestall adverse effects on individuals and industry,” a highly placed source at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum told the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday. “What the stoppage of gas flow to Ghana means is that the Asogli Power Plant will shut down because it runs only on gas,” it said. The Asogli Power Plant was augmenting Ghana’s energy needs with an average of 180 megawatts (MW). “This is certainly not good because other power plants are operating below capacity due to maintenance schedules, delay in crude oil supply and other factors,” the source said. Ghanaians, local and foreign businesses have been grappling with problems associated with the intermittent supply of electricity for several months. The water level in the Akosombo Dam keeps dropping while power plants in the country continuously operate below capacity. Therefore, the suspension of gas supply from the West African Gas Pipeline will aggravate an already precarious power situation. Despite the challenges, the source gave an assurance
that work was on schedule to tie the Atuabo Gas Plant to the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is being operated by Tullow Oil plc. Thermal plants in the country are also expected to be powered by the gas which will flow from the Atuabo Gas Plant. Additionally, two power barges expected to generate a total of 450 MW are being built in Turkey and are expected to be shipped to Ghana before the end of the second quarter of 2015. Meanwhile, the first power barge, which has a capacity of 225 MW, has been constructed. There was an eight-month break in gas supplies from Nigeria to Ghana after a vessel broke one of the gas pipelines in Togo in August 2012. Ghana’s demand for electricity is between 1,800 and 2,000 MW, but it is targeting 5,000 MW by 2016. It wants to have enough to export to other West African countries by the end of 2016.
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That's the price of dealing with a failed country like Nigeria. They don't understand the word contract.

keep deceiving yourself. Have u not heard of ghana's atuabo gas project. Its ready to use. it will rid us nigeria's poisonous gas.

Unions and their wahala. May God save us from them.

iconize:

You're a m_oron!

- Terminate the contract if the scavengers aren't paying up!!!

Oh look how well Nigeria is managed. What really works in that country. I beg apart from population that keeps growing. Energy sector is trash, transportation sector is trash, healthcare same thing, education sector another mess. You are right I blame Ghana for even signing a contract with Nigeria, we should have let you guys continue to flare the gases.

JiggamanGh:

[s]Oh look how well Nigeria is managed. What really works in that country. I beg apart from population that keeps growing. Energy sector is trash, transportation sector is trash, healthcare same thing, education sector another mess. You are right I blame Ghana for even signing a contract with Nigeria, we should have let you guys continue to flare the gases.[/s]

Accra hospitals reeling under the no power and water syndrome.

The ongoing water and electricity rationing is taking its toll on some health facilities in the national capital, Accra.

The Ghana Water Company introduced the rationing last week because of faulty machines.

The problem is compounded by the ongoing load shedding in the capital and other parts of the country.

Joy News's Beatrice Adu took a tour of some of the health facilities in the capital to find out how they are coping with the situation. She described the situation as worrying.

She said frustrated maternity ward attendants at the Kaneshie Poly Clinic could not hide their disgust at what is going on.

Some of them were so angry because there was no water to clean the blood of a woman in the ward who had bled profusely after delivering her child at midday.

She was taken round by some of the nurses so she could see for herself how precarious the situation is and the heavy toll the water rationing is having on them

The hospital administrator, Madam Francisca Sefakor Kumahor also said the facility had spent six hundred Ghana Cedis on fuel for the Poly Clinic's power generator this week alone.

“As for water, is another thing all together,” she told Adu.

At the Maamobi General Hospital, the situation was no different.

The administrator Joanita Da Pilma told the reporter that the hospital had spent over one thousand, five hundred Ghana Cedis since November last year to supply their own power and their equipment are also breaking down.

She added that for water, the service provider had never bothered to provide some for them for a decade now.

The Deputy in charge of the Princess Marie St. Liouse Children's Hospital Dr. Isaac Abban said because of the erratic power supply, the facility is using its scarce resources to repair equipment.

At the Adabraka Poly Clinic, officials told Joy News electricity goes off at least five times a day making sterilization of equipment used for the day difficult. Again the low current the entire hospital endures has made the work unbearable.

So for how long will this continue? When will these power and water issues be a situation of the past?

iconize:

Dumbo, What can be more obvious than the fact that gayna was built with borrowed monies?

boko-geria was built with generator fumes and incompetent soldiers who are now citizens of cameroon. Lmao

iconize:


Accra hospitals reeling under the no power and water syndrome.

The ongoing water and electricity rationing is taking its toll on some health facilities in the national capital, Accra.

The Ghana Water Company introduced the rationing last week because of faulty machines.

The problem is compounded by the ongoing load shedding in the capital and other parts of the country.

Joy News's Beatrice Adu took a tour of some of the health facilities in the capital to find out how they are coping with the situation. She described the situation as worrying.

She said frustrated maternity ward attendants at the Kaneshie Poly Clinic could not hide their disgust at what is going on.

Some of them were so angry because there was no water to clean the blood of a woman in the ward who had bled profusely after delivering her child at midday.

She was taken round by some of the nurses so she could see for herself how precarious the situation is and the heavy toll the water rationing is having on them

The hospital administrator, Madam Francisca Sefakor Kumahor also said the facility had spent six hundred Ghana Cedis on fuel for the Poly Clinic's power generator this week alone.

“As for water, is another thing all together,” she told Adu.

At the Maamobi General Hospital, the situation was no different.

The administrator Joanita Da Pilma told the reporter that the hospital had spent over one thousand, five hundred Ghana Cedis since November last year to supply their own power and their equipment are also breaking down.

She added that for water, the service provider had never bothered to provide some for them for a decade now.

The Deputy in charge of the Princess Marie St. Liouse Children's Hospital Dr. Isaac Abban said because of the erratic power supply, the facility is using its scarce resources to repair equipment.

At the Adabraka Poly Clinic, officials told Joy News electricity goes off at least five times a day making sterilization of equipment used for the day difficult. Again the low current the entire hospital endures has made the work unbearable.

So for how long will this continue? When will these power and water issues be a situation of the past?

Yet the majority of west Africans send their people to Ghana for treatment, even Nigerians come to Ghana for treatment. So what does that say about niggarea compared to Ghana.

JiggamanGh:

Yet the majority of west Africans send their people to Ghana for treatment, even Nigerians come to Ghana for treatment. So what does that say about niggarea compared to Ghana.

Any evidence to buttress the gibberish above?

mrham03: boko-geria was built with generator fumes and incompetent soldiers who are now citizens of cameroon. Lmao

Did they go there to make tea like gaynaian soldiers did in Liberia?

iconize:

Any evidence to buttress the gibberish above?

The proof is in the pudding, go search for it.