Ibom Power Company has announced the resumption of operations following the restoration of gas supply to its facility after more than 114 days of inactivity.
The company’s main gas supplier embarked on “critical system upgrade and maintenance of the Ikot Abasi Gas Receiving Facility (IGRF) to Ibom power.”
The 60 km 18-inch IGRF from Uquo to Ikot Abasi is the distribution infrastructure that delivers gas to the Ibom power plant.
Meyen Etukudoh, managing director of the plant who made this known in Uyo, the state capital said though the maintenance was initially scheduled to last for 45 days which elapsed on the 4th of December 2016, it spanned to 114 days as gas was restored to Ibom plant on the 12thof February 2017.
Ibom power plant is one of the 22 gas fired power plants in Nigeria and has three installed units with total capacity of 191MW of electricity.
He explained who explained unit three is currently evacuating about 100MW to the national grid said the main reason behind the plant shutdown of the plant was due to a critical system upgrade and maintenance of the Ikot Abasi Gas Receiving Facility (IGRF) to Ibom power.
The power plant has recorded 195 days without any outage until it was shut down on 21st of October, 2016 due to maintenance work done on the gas supply facility.
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