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The refinery is part of the Duport Midstream have a 32-rack data centre that can go up to 100
Energy Park, which will also feature a 30mn racks.”
cubic feet (850,000 cubic metre) per day gas pro- He added: “Without the NCDMB, this will
cessing facility and a 5-MW power plant and a not be possible. Not only did they invest in us,
data centre. they held our hands through the process, sup-
In mid-2020, NCDMB provided $15mn of porting us, guiding us and letting us tap into
funding to Duport in exchange for an equity their experiences.”
stake in the project, but its share has not been As noted by Wabote, the facility will be the
made public. Duport has also received funding second to launch that has received NCDMB
from First City Monument Bank (FCMB). funding, the first being the 5,000 bpd Walter-
Akintoye Akindele, CEO of Duport Mid- smith Refining and Petrochemical Co. plant
stream, said: “At the moment, we can process in Ibigwe, Imo State, in which the agency took
60mn cubic feet [1.7mn cubic metres] of gas a 30% stake during 2018. It also has a stake in
daily. This refinery is a 10,000 bpd refinery, start- the Azikel Hydroskimming Modular Refinery,
ing with 2,500 bpd. The power plant capacity is which will have a capacity of 12,000 bpd when
over 50 MW and we are starting with 5 MW. We it launches, potentially by the end of the year. ™

Petrofac wins contract from Tullow for

FPSO operations services at Jubilee field

GHANA JERSEY-HEADQUARTERED Petrofac said on the contract would expand the company’s foot-
July 4 that it had won a contract from Tullow Oil print in West Africa. “I’m delighted that we are
(UK/Ireland) to provide operations services for continuing to grow our presence in Africa with
the Jubilee project offshore Ghana. valued long-term partner Tullow Oil,” he said.
In a statement, Petrofac explained that the “We bring our considerable global FPSO experi-
contract covered the provision of operations, ence to Ghana, also putting us in a good position
maintenance and technical support services for to support other similar facilities in the region.
the Kwame Nkrumah (KNK), the floating pro- Petrofac has been in North Africa for more than
duction, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel two decades and now we are building our pres-
that Tullow and its partners have installed at ence across the continent, growing local jobs,
Jubilee. It did not reveal the value or the term developing local skills and collaborating with
of the deal. local partners.”
The Jubilee field is Tullow’s main upstream Tullow serves as operator of Jubilee and holds
asset in Ghana’s offshore zone. It is one of the a 38.9% equity stake in the oilfield. ™
largest oilfields found off the coast of West Africa
within the last two decades, and it yielded nearly
75,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude last year.
Rahul Dhir, the CEO of Tullow, said he
expected the contract with Petrofac to provide
positive support for the overall development of
Jubilee while also expanding the capacity of the
local labour force. “This new partnership with
Petrofac will leverage Petrofac’s years of experi-
ence in operating onshore and offshore facilities
and will deliver improved operations on KNK,”
he remarked. “In particular, Petrofac’s experi-
ence in workforce training will be key in helping
Tullow develop Ghanaian talent in leadership
roles in the management of Ghana’s offshore
facilities.”
Meanwhile, Nick Shorten, COO for Petro-
fac’s asset solutions business, pointed out that The Jubilee field is Tullow’s largest upstream asset in Ghana (Image: Tullow Oil)

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