West African Gas Pipeline Co. has restarted the West African Gas Pipeline
Accra, Ghana-headquartered West African Gas Pipeline Co. that owns and operates the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP), which supplies natural gas from Nigeria, has announced that the pipeline resumed deliveries this week.
“The West African gas pipeline has now been repaired, re-commissioned and back in operation,” Harriet Wereko-Brobby, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. Earlier on 11th July, the force majeure, a legal clause allowing it to miss shipments, was lifted, she said.
The company, known as WAPCo, delivers gas to buyers in Benin, Togo and Ghana. In August last year the company was forced to shut down the link and declared a force majeure after a ship’s anchor damaged the gas pipeline in Togolese waters.
“The company is pursuing measures to forestall a re-occurrence of the pipeline breach incident,” Wereko-Brobby said.
The gas pipeline
The 678 km WAGP links into the existing Escravos-Lagos pipeline at the Nigeria Gas Company’s Itoki Natural Gas Export Terminal in Nigeria and proceeds to a beachhead in Lagos. From there it moves offshore to Takoradi, in Ghana, with gas delivery laterals from the main line extending to Cotonou (Benin), Lome (Togo) and Tema (Ghana). The Escravos-Lagos pipeline system has a capacity of 800 million ft3/d, and the WAPCo system will initially carry a volume of 170 million ft3/d and peak over time at a capacity of 460 million ft3/d.
About WAPCo
WAPCo is owned by Chevron West African Gas Pipeline Ltd (36.7%); Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (25%); Shell Overseas Holdings Limited (18%); and Takoradi Power Company Limited (16.3%), Societe Togolaise de Gaz (2%) and Societe BenGaz S.A. (2%).
Edited from various sources by Cecilia Rehn
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