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The Tema Oil Refinery has a throughput capacity of 45,000 bpd (Image: TOR)

Located near TOR in Tema Newtown, a wet- This will comprise a 10,000 bpd atmospheric
land catchment of Chemu Lagoon, the original distillation unit, a 16,000 bpd heavy oil catalytic
proposal for the project envisages a two-stage unit, a 4,600 bpd diesel hydrogenation unit and
development that will achieve a total capacity of facilities for naphtha-methanol-to-gasoline
60,000 bpd. (NMTG), catalytic gasoline selective hydro-
The Sentuo project company’s request for a genation and sulphur recovery. The chosen plot
permit was submitted in December 2019 as part covers an area of 217 acres (87.8 hectares) that
of plans to create a plant to process light sour has been leased for a period of 60 years.
crude over two identical phases, each with a pro- However, after screening the project and car-
cessing capacity of 30,000 bpd. rying out site inspections, Ghana’s Environmen-
The $796mn first phase will produce 464,500 tal Protection Agency (EPA) said in April 2021
tonnes per year (tpy) of gasoline, 481,800 tpy of that the area had been identified as a wetland
diesel and other productions including LPG, and a buffer zone for flooding, adding that the
benzene, aromatics, xylene, toluene, sulphuric area was too close to Tema Newtown and would
acid, bitumen and fuel oil. add to existing congestion. ™

Ex-NamPower boss urges Namibia to

accelerate Kudu gas-to-power project

NAMIBIA/SOUTH AFRICA FORMER managing director of Namibia Power
Corporation (NamPower) Leake Hangala has
called on the government to urgently develop
the Kudu power station to help end escalating
power outages in neighbouring South Africa,
local media outlet The Namibian reports.
South Africa is experiencing an acute elec-
tricity crisis as its embattled national power util-
ity Eskom struggles to meet demand. Constant
rolling power outages, known locally as load
shedding, are impacting the country’s water sup-
ply as municipalities are unable to pump water
during daily outages.
Eskom currently has 5,739 MW on planned
maintenance, while another 18,041 MW of
capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns and
delays in returning generators to service, the
state-owned enterprise (SOE) said in a state-
ment on January 11. Gas from the Kudu field is slated to fuel an onshore power plant (Image: HRT)
According to Hangala, the time to follow
through on the Kudu gas-to-power project off- a 56% stake in the Kudu natural gas field in 2017,
shore Namibia is now. The current development includes setting up a gas baseload power plant
plan by Oslo-listed BW Energy, which acquired near Lüderitz.

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