Saturday, 19 September 2015

DPR Grants Green Energy License for Modular Nigerian Refinery



Otakikpo Marginal Field operator; Green Energy International Limited recently disclosed that it has obtained a license from the Nigeria’s National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), for a 10 MW captive power. Also the company was granted a license for modular refinery to produce diesel and other refined products by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), according to reports by Petroleum Africa.

Although the company didn’t go into further details regarding the modular refinery, but in a statement by the technical director of the company, Bunu Alibe, he said that it will accelerate the work program to put in place necessary infrastructure and processes to continue full development and eventual production from the field in the near future. 

In the coming months the company will install the Extended Production Facility (EPF)  and construct a 5 km undersea pipeline to enable produced crude from the Otakikpo Field to be evacuated via a shuttle tanker.

Alibe also disclosed that some level of progress has been made concerning the power plant as work towards the installation of the power plant and other related gas utilization projects has reached an advanced stage.

GEIL said the processed gas would be utilized for power generation in the communities surrounding the field and excess sold to the Port Harcourt Distribution Company (Disco) in addition to LPG extraction and bottling facility to produce and distribute domestic cooking gas.

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