By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 6 -- Global Gas & Refining Ltd., a Nigerian subsidiary of Houston-managed Global Energy Inc., has started up its Cawthorne Channel gas processing plant in the Bonny River area in Nigeria. The 120 MMcfd, barge-mounted facility is the first indigenous-owned and operated gas processing plant in Africa, Global said.
Shell Petroleum & Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. has agreed to supply 80 MMcfd of associated gas from its Cawthorne Channel and Awoba fields to the plant. Global will extract liquids and return residual gas to Shell for delivery to Nigeria LNG Ltd.'s facility at Bonny.
Processed liquids will move through Global's 23-km pipeline to the 75,000-cu-m Berge Okoloba Toru floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, leased from Bergesen ASA, Oslo. Vitol SA is lifting the gas for export to the US.
The liquids will be fractionated at Mont Belvieu, Tex., until Global's fractionator is completed in December and begins operating in first quarter 2006. Hanover Compressor Co. built the barge-mounted processing plant and is building the fractionator for the topside of the FPSO.
