Maintenance mostly over in Africa
Most of the current round of refinery maintenance in Africa has been completed.
However, South Africa’s Cape Town and Engen remain closed.
ONGOING MAINTENANCE
New and revised entries Ghana’s sole oil refinery, the Tema facility, has come back online after being shut in for a few weeks due to technical issues, a source close to the matter said March 22. “The refinery has resumed processing after days of some maintenance to correct some few issues,” the source said. The refinery went offline in late July, after having run through its reserves of crude. It then restarted in early January only to shut down again a month later. The CDU currently only has one furnace, which means the refinery can only operate at around 30,000 b/d.
New and revised entries Ghana s sole oil refinery, the Tema facility, has come back online after being shut in for a few weeks due to technical issues, a source close to the matter said March 22. The refinery has resumed processing after days of some maintenance to correct some few issues, the source said. The refinery went offline in late July, after having run through its reserves of crude. It then restarted in early January only to shut down again a month later. The CDU currently only has one furnace, which means the refinery can only operate at around 30,000 b/d.
The start of feedgas flows from Equatorial Guinea’s offshore Alen gas project into the country’s LNG plant will likely see new companies start to lift cargoes from the West African country. The Alen Gas Monetisation project produced first gas in February, said operator Noble Energy, recently acquired by US energy major Chevron. The project has .
Chevron Corporation CVX recently produced first gas from the Alen gas monetization project, situated offshore Equatorial Guinea (“EG”). In April 2019, Noble Energy,which is currently owned by Chevron, had approved the development of the Alen natural gas project. Gross capital expenditure for the development of the project was estimated to be $330 million. The Alen field is located on Block O (95%) and Block I (5%), offshore EG. Noble Energy.