Ghana: Power bottleneck limits gas output

Despite Ghana’s severe power shortages, and the delays to the start of gas production from Jubilee, Kosmos Energy says lack of power generation capacity is limiting initial output. Chief executive Andy Inglis told a conference call to discuss Kosmos’ Q1 results that about 75mcf/d was being exported to the onshore processing plant at Atuabo by the end of the quarter. “The power plant downstream at Aboadze continues to be the bottleneck on additional export,” he said. “We expect the installation of additional gas-fired power generation at Aboadze in H2 will alleviate this issue.