19-20 Apr, 2016 - Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Hilton Sandton
Hilton Sandton
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Ghana National Gas Company is planning to construct a new gas plant. The construction of the new plant will commence once the designed concept is approved by the newly reconstituted Ghana Gas board chaired by John Amstrong Yao Kilingo.
The plant will take about 1.5 years to be completed. The new plant is expected to solve Ghana’s intermittent gas shortage.
The new plant will have a capacity to produce about 25 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. It will procure gas from the TEN field.
Ghana Gas already operates a gas plant – Atuabo Gas Processing Plant – which is the country’s first ever plant. It can process more than 180,000 tonnes of LPG for domestic use. The project already under operation is expected to save Ghana almost half a billion dollars annually in light crude oil purchases for energy.
Dr. George Sipa Yankey, CEO of Ghana National Gas Company will present a session on ‘Ghana LPG Industry Game Changer: The Atuabo Gas Processing Plant’ at CMT’s 2nd Africa LPG Trade Summit on 19-20 April, 2016 in Johannesburg.
Contact Ms. Huiyan at huiyan@cmtsp.com.sg or call +65 6346 9113 for more details.
04 Apr, 2016
CMR Marine has won a contract from Sunrise Energy to construct marine facilities and overland pipelines at South Africa’s Saldanha Bay LPG Import Terminal.
The Saldanha LPG Import and Storage Terminal project is located in Saldanha Bay, South Africa. The terminal once operational is expected to import and store LPG and distribute the product throughout South Africa. South Africa, currently, faces an energy deficit due to lack of LPG supply.
CMR Marine is a subsidiary of Clough and the company will be responsible for works related to fabrication, installation and commissioning of a five km LPG pipeline. They will also construct marine facilities that can help vessels to offload LPG at an onshore facility, via a three km subsea pipeline. The overland pipeline includes a shore crossing and a two km pipeline that connects with the Sunrise plant.
It’s estimated that in April 2016, the company will begin mobilizing its construction teams to the Saldanha Bay site. CMR will operate its engineering and procurement activities from its Cape Town office.
CMR has global experience in oil/ gas and marine construction projects. It plans to bring all that expertise to the Saldahna Import Terminal project.
Sunrise Energy is a partnership between Ilitha Group Holdings Pty Ltd, Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and Mining Oil and Gas Services (MOGS).
CMT’s 2nd Africa LPG Trade Summit on 19-20 April, 2016 in Johannesburg discusses more on South Africa’s LPG infrastructure and demand & supply trends.
Contact Ms. Huiyan at huiyan@cmtsp.com.sg or call +65 6346 9113 for more details.
10 Mar, 2016
Africa’s LPG demand is growing and this has attracted several investments in the region. UAE-based Gulf Petrochem is eyeing the LPG markets in East Africa – especially those of Kenya and Tanzania. The oil product trader plans to increase its storage capacity in the region to take advantage of double digit growth for some products, especially LPG.
It is in talks to build storage capacity in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Mombasa in Kenya.
Gulf Petrochem has already applied for licenses in Kenya and Tanzania to market LPG that is used mainly for cooking. It also plans to more than double its fuel stations from three to eight.
Besides LPG, the company expects to crack a deal to lease storage of approximately 100,000 cubic metres to store gasoil and gasoline in East Africa.
More on Gulf Petrochem’s ‘Investment Opportunities in East Africa LPG Infrastructure and Growing Markets’ will be shared by the company’s Executive Director – Thangapandian Srinivasalu at CMT’s 2nd Africa LPG Trade Summit on 19-20 April, 2016 in Johannesburg.
Contact Ms. Huiyan at huiyan@cmtsp.com.sg or call +65 6346 9113 for more details.
10 Feb, 2016
South Africa faces a shortage of LPG supply during the winter months. The reasons for the supply crunch is attributed to a variety of factors.
First of all consumers use LPG as an alternative source of heating during winter months as load-shedding and rise in electricity prices prevail.
With LPG consumption in South Africa expected to quadruple by 2024, it’s crucial that the country ramps up LPG import and storage facilities. After long and unnecessary delays, an LPG Import Terminal in Saldanha Bay is being developed to enable additional LPG imports to meet local demand and is expected to be operational by end of next year.
As the winters began, Afrox started to import on an average of 6,000 tonnes of LPG every month. But this additional LPG is still not enough to meet the high demand – from consumers as well as the hospitality and industrial sectors.
Apart from consumer demand for LPG, there are other reasons such as scheduled maintenance shutdowns of refineries leading to low LPG supply.
It’s also seen that manufacturers are considering renewables and gas sources to safeguard their energy mix and ease out the strained supplies.
More on LPG market trends will be under the spotlight at CMT’s 2nd Africa LPG Trade Summit scheduled on 19-20 April, 2016 in Johannesburg.
Contact Ms. Huiyan at huiyan@cmtsp.com.sg or call +65 6346 9113 for more details.
11 Jan, 2016
