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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