IBOM POWER MANAGEMENT UNDERTAKES FACILITY VISIT TO ACCUGAS PROCESSING PLANT

The Acting Managing Director of Ibom Power Company Limited, Engr. Camillus Umoh, led the company’s senior management team on a strategic visit to its sole gas supplier, Accugas (a subsidiary of Savannah Energy), to gain firsthand insight into the company’s operations.

Accugas’ gas processing and compression plant facility (CPF), located in Esit Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, is a 200 million standard cubic feet per day (200 MMscfpd) plant. It supplies gas to Ibom Power, the Odukpani Independent Power Plant and Lafarge Africa cement factory through dedicated 18” and 24” diameter pipelines to Ikot Abasi and Oron, respectively.

This visit follows the Acting MD’s call for a comprehensive and collaborative approach to resolving one of Ibom Power’s challenges as well as the need for backward integration.

Addressing the issue of gas shortage, Savanah Energy said gas is available to customers on demand. The company, which manages gas development and production from five wells in the Uquo oil fields and an oil well owned by Frontier Energy, disclosed that it has completed an additional modular unit to boost gas supply from its existing Uquo field gas asset and future wells.

Savannah said it supplies gas for about 17% of Nigeria’s thermal power generation capacity and further disclosed that, in demonstration of its commitment to customer satisfaction, it devised an alternative supply route to serve customers when the 24 km gas pipeline to Oron was vandalized.

According to Savannah Energy, most of the gas produced is used for power generation, while the rest serves industrial customers such as cement producers. Savannah Energy plc is a British independent energy firm. The firm recently confirmed that its Uquo Field was converted to a 20-year petroleum mining lease in line with the Petroleum Industry Act 2021, effective from December 1, 2023 in demonstration as a going concern.

The Ibom Power delegation first received a detailed plant specific safety induction at the Accugas conference room before a tour of live operational areas, led by Savannah Energy’s Oil and Gas Production Supervisor, Engr. Eberechi Nwafor and Head of Operations, Olusola Oke.