On Monday, GNPC will begin decommissioning the Saltpond Oil Field.
The Ghana National Petroleum corporation (GNPC) will from Monday, September 26, start the specialized decommissioning of the Saltpond Oil Field in the Focal Area, Ghana's most seasoned oil field.
This follows the appearance of the hotly anticipated raise apparatus and supporting vessels from Lagos, Nigeria, expected to attempt the activity.
The apparatus got to Saltpond on Saturday, September 24, 2022 in the organization of safety authorities and was around three hours from the penetrating establishment (Mr Louie Apparatus) starting around 1430 hours Sunday.
The GNPC will authoritatively surrender the stage to the project worker, Hans and Co Gas and Oil Specialist organizations, on Monday, after which work will start right away.
The activity, the very first in Ghana, will for all time seal every one of the six wells of the oil field, eliminate all lines and totally destroy the rusted and vile boring stage to reestablish that region of the ocean to its unique state.
Every one of the essential grants have been gotten to attempt the activity.
The Saltpond Oil Field, around 105 kilometers west of Accra and 13 kilometers off the shore of Saltpond, was found in 1970.
The field is in a water profundity of 85 feet and stretches out over an area of five square kilometers.
It was creating up to 4,800 barrels of oil each day at its top from two out of six wells penetrated.
Yet, creation plunged to under 200 barrels of oil each day by 2015 to make the functional expense higher than creation.
Subsequently, the Service of Energy, in August 2016, coordinated the GNPC to decommission the field in light of the proposals from state foundations including the Natural Security Organization.
The Organization, in this manner, started a field decommissioning process in 2018 with the primary period of studies and an improvement of an arrangement properly finished and supported by the Service of Energy.
Tending to the press in Saltpond on Sunday, Dr Kwame Baah-Nuakoh, the Head supervisor, Manageability and Partner Relations, GNPC, made sense of that the decommissioning exercise had become essential in light of the fact that the oil field was at this point not monetarily reasonable.
He said the wells and wellheads were in a regrettable state, representing a danger of oil spillage, which would unfavorably affect sea-going life, the existences of anglers, and those with offices along the sea shores.
"In the event that we leave this stage for the following two years, no one understands what will happen in light of the fact that the underlying uprightness can't be ensured," he said.
"practically all metals have consumed and could cause debacle."
Dr Baah-Nuakoh said the boring establishment would be cut, moved to the shore and reused or sold as scrap to foster the catchment networks.
He guaranteed that all wellbeing means were completely followed to turn away any mishap, including spillage.
"The arrangement is to guarantee that no perilous waste is left on the ocean. The Enterprise has set up a vigorous crisis reaction plan of worldwide guidelines to deal with any episode, in the improbable occasion - it happens," he said.
What we are wanting to do is to reestablish the region to its monetary level for fishing and ideally reassign it to check whether we can find oil there since history shows there's oil there."
Dr Baah-Nuakoh cautioned anglers to get a base distance of 500 meters far from the oil field and said the naval force would be conveyed to implement the mandate all through the decommissioning system.
He noticed that piece of the decommissioning concurrence with the project worker was to guarantee the exchange of information and innovation so future decommissioning would be finished by Ghanaians.
He offered thanks to Parliament for its ceaseless help all through the activity.
Lady Persistence Lartey, Appointee Director, Social Execution and Neighborhood Content Maintainability and Partner Relations, GNPC, noticed that all partners inside the impacted catchment networks had been participated in series of gatherings to get their up front investment and backing.
Nana Kwesi Brevo III, the Head of Kuntu, spoke to the GNPC to repay the local area with some advancement projects for facilitating the oil field since its beginning.
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