Dresser-Rand to supply two compressor trains to Eni in Ghana

“The OCTP project is of strategic importance for Ghana in order to provide a long-term sustainable and clean source of power generation” Dresser-Rand said in a statement.

“This order is a significant integration milestone and represents another synergy achievement of the Dresser-Rand business and Siemens” it said, adding that “it marks the first time the new business sold a Datum compressor driven by a Siemens gas turbine.”

The two Dresser-Rand Datum D10R8B centrifugal compressors will each be driven by a Siemens SGT-400 gas turbine. The Datum compressors will be manufactured in Le Havre, France while the SGT-400 gas turbines will be manufactured in Lincoln, UK. Engineering, packaging, and equipment testing will be coordinated in the Hengelo facility in the Netherlands, the company said.

The equipment will be installed in Eni Ghana’s onshore gas receiving facility (ORF) located in the western region of Ghana near the village of Sanzule. The ORF will receive the non-associated gas delivered from offshore for further compression and injection into the gas pipeline national network for delivery. The first compressor unit is scheduled for delivery in September 2017 and the second in October 2017.

Eni Ghana expects to have the plant fully operational in February 2018, Dresser-Rand said.

OCTP is to provide domestic gas supply to national thermal power plants for more than 15 years “addressing energy requirements in urban and rural areas and where needed most” Eni said on its website.
The project is located approximately 60 km offshore Ghana’s west coast holding about 41 billion cubic meters of non-associated gas and 500 million barrels of oil, it said.