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Tema LNG now expecting to

receive first cargo by end-May

GHANA TEMA LNG Terminal Co. (TLTC), the owner as the Vasant, is currently en route to the port of
of the Tema LNG terminal offshore Ghana, Tema. Both vessels will be moored at a new jetty
is reportedly on track to receive its first cargo built by West Africa Gas. The Torman is capable
within the next few weeks. of handling 1.7mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG,
A spokesman for TLTC, which is owned and the Vasant will boost the facility’s total stor-
by UK-based Helios Investment Partners and age capacity to 145,000-160,000 cubic metres.
Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers, Shell will use the terminal to supply LNG
told S&P Global Platts earlier this week that the from Nigeria to GNPC under a long-term off-
terminal would receive its first cargo before the take contract. Officials in Accra hope the deal
end of May. The facility is “operationally ready,” will make larger volumes of gas available on the
he said, so the shipment can proceed once Ghana domestic market, supplementing local produc-
National Petroleum Co. (GNPC) and Royal tion and pipeline imports from Nigeria.
Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) strike an agree- However, state-run GNPC has attracted
ment on the delivery date. some criticism for its contract with Shell. Benja-
TLTC had said earlier this year that it hoped min Boakye, the executive director of the Africa
the first LNG cargo would arrive by the end of Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), told the Daily
March. Graphic earlier this week that Ghana did not
Tema LNG will consist of a floating regasifi- need to import gas to cover demand. The coun-
cation unit (FRU) and a separate floating storage try can extract enough from its own fields and
unit (FSU). The FRU, a vessel known as the Tor- import enough via the West African Gas Pipeline
man, is already in place. The FSU, a vessel known (WAGP) to meet its own needs, he asserted.™
METERING

Nigeria aims to install 36mn electricity meters

NIGERIA THE Nigerian government has unveiled ambi- circulation, economic dumping of inferior goods
tious plans to install over 36mn electricity meters by other countries as practised in the past will no
across the country by the end of the second quar- longer be tolerated by the authorities concerned,
ter of 2021. and above all, the estimated billing system will
This will restore confidence and trust in the come with a penalty to whoever served the bill
power sector, as consumers of electricity would to consumers,” he said.
no longer be extorted through an estimated bill- The minister said he came to see the level of
ing system that does not match consumption. preparedness of NEMSA to be able to commence
Speaking at the inspection of the meter test- operations urgently, in compliance with the fed-
ing facility of the Nigerian Electricity Manage- eral government directives that 36mn electricity
ment Services Agency (NEMSA) in Enugu, consumers in Nigeria must be metered before
the Minister of State Power, Gody Jeddy Agba, the end of quarter two in 2021.
expressed satisfaction at the level of work and Agba stressed that the government was
installation of state-of-the-art equipment that determined to ensure that the power sector was
will process durability and certify as fit for use revamped to boost growth in manufacturing and
all electricity meters imported into the country. other industrial sub-sectors of the economy. He
Agba said the power sector reforms of the said that economic growth in other countries
present administration have to deal with new was dependent on adequate power supply.
methods of boosting generation, transmission NEMSA’s chief electrical officer of the fed-
and distribution. eration and managing director, Peter Ewosa,
He said adequate power supply in the coun- said that all electricity meters imported into the
try will translate to statistical economic growth country must be tested at the point of entry to
and development of the gross domestic product certify their technical fitness before installation.
(GDP), which is hit an all-time high within the “Every country has its technical requirements
last month. and standard specifications for any equipment
“The benefits that accrue from the planned that is publicly or privately put into use; therefore
inauguration of the meter testing plant and facil- any meter that does not pass through the agency
ity stem from the fact that sub-standard meters cannot be installed either at homes, offices and
that are inflammable will be eliminated from factories,” said Ewosa.™

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