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Savannah Energy unit signs gas

agreement with Nigeria’s TAPL

NIGERIA UK-BASED Savannah Energy revealed on June deliveries.
6 that Accugas, its 80% indirectly owned subsid- Andrew Knott, Savannah Energy’s CEO,
iary, had signed a short-term deal with TransA- noted that the GSA with TAPL would serve
fam Power Ltd (TAPL) on the delivery of natural to expand Accugas’ portfolio of clients. “I am
gas for use at the latter company’s thermal power delighted to add TAPL as a new customer of
plants (TPPs) in Nigeria’s Rivers State. Accugas,” he commented. “This represents the
In a statement, Savannah said that Accugas second new GSA we have signed this year, bring-
had signed a gas sales agreement (GSA) with ing our total number of gas customers to seven,
TAPL that provided for the delivery of 35mn as we deliver on our objective to be the gas sup-
cubic feet (991,000 cubic metres) per day of gas plier of choice to the power sector in Nigeria.”
on an interruptible basis. The shipments will Meanwhile, Vincent Ozoude, managing
continue for an initial period of three months, director and CEO of TAPL, said he expected the
with the option to extend for a mutually agreed deal to benefit his company. “We are excited to
interval, it said. start this journey with Accugas Ltd, which sup-
The statement did not reveal the value of the ports our core purpose of improving lives and
GSA or say when shipments were expected to transforming Nigeria,” he stated. “This relation-
begin. But it did note that TAPL’s two TPPs – the ship with Accugas should go a long way in boost-
Afam Power and Afam Three Fast Power sta- ing our plant capacity recovery programme and
tions, both located in Okoloma – were already improved power generation to the country.”
connected to Accugas’ network. The facilities Together, the Afam Power and Afam Three
have links to a Nigerian Gas Co. (NGC) pipe- Fast Power TPPs have an installed generating
line from Ikot Abasi, so the Savannah subsidiary capacity of 966 MW.™
will not have to establish a new tie-in or make
any additional capital expenditures to enable

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