Authorities at the Ghana Gas Company Limited (GWCL) have announced that the gas processing plant would be shut down on April 20, 2015, for a mandatory maintenance.

This is the first time the plant is going off since it started operations a few months back.

A statement signed by the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr George Sipa-Yankey Friday said: “It is a mandatory outage required by the vendors for certain critical components in the gas processing plant, particularly our compression facilities, which have been running for nearly 4,000 hours since installation and commissioning”.

It added: “Given the multiple equipment manufacturers involved, and the need for cohesive collaboration, we expect the shutdown to last for about ten to fourteen days.”

The statement also hinted that the company is in contact with the Volta River Authority and Tullow Oil Ghana to ensure a “smooth completion of the planned maintenance works”.