{"id":4405,"date":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com2017\/03\/29\/wapco-expands-its-facilities-in-response-to-growing-demand-for-natural-gas-in-tema\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"wapco-expands-its-facilities-in-response-to-growing-demand-for-natural-gas-in-tema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wapco-expands-its-facilities-in-response-to-growing-demand-for-natural-gas-in-tema\/","title":{"rendered":"WAPCo expands its facilities in response to growing demand for natural gas in Tema"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The West African Gas Pipeline Company Ltd (WAPCo) is in the process of expanding its regulating and metering facility in Tema, Ghana,<\/strong><\/h5>\n<!--more-->\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u00a0to deliver higher volumes of gas to the Volta River Authority (VRA) for power generation.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u00a0The expansion project involves upgrading the existing metering system from 70mmscfd to 140mmscfd and forms part of measures aimed at positioning the WAGP to meet changes in Ghana\u2019s energy market.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Key facts<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Location: Tema, off the Aflao road, Ghana<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Partners: WAPCo and VRA<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Metering capacity on completion: 140mmscfd<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Project development<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The Tema expansion project is being strategically executed in phases:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Phase1: Original Equipment Manufacturer(OEM) assisted turnaround inspection of the two WB-Heaters in Tema.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Phase2: Detailed engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of additional 70 mmscfd metering skid, metering controls, accessories (Gas Chromatograph) and instrumentation as an integrated unit.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Phase 1 was safely completed in June 2016 as scheduled and without any incident.The contract for Phase 2 has been awarded with an expected completion date of December 2017.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Environment and society<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The project will make possible the delivery of additional gas volumes to help meet growing local energy demand. This will limit CO\u00b2 emissions by producing electricity from a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly energy source.<\/strong><\/h5>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The West African Gas Pipeline Company Ltd (WAPCo) is in the process of expanding its regulating and metering facility in Tema, Ghana,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagpco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}