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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here         Daily Independent Online.         * Friday,July 16, 2004. Shell to boost gas supply with compressors By Charles Okonji Senior Business Correspondent, Lagos   Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has planned some strategies to boost gas supply to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas trains four and five through the improvement of the performance of gas compressors in the company. The company’s Corporate Maintenance Manager, Mr. Alexander Lundie, said the compressor performance improvement campaign would help to ensure that the compressors work at optimum levels, such that SPDC would meet its gas supplies to NNLG trains and progress the flare-down programme. Lundie explained that the company’s 33 compressors compressed and transmitted associated gas from SPDC’s gas gathering centres to nodes, where it is exported or used for domestic electricity generation. He said: “It is vital that these facilities work steady and the aim of the improvement campaign is to ensure that their performance is increased from the present low performance to, at least, 95 per cent.” The campaign began with an audit of compressor performance in 2003, which was conducted at the beginning of this year. It showed that the average compressor uptime for the 12 months was 70 per cent against a target of 95 per cent. In February, this year, tactical teams were set up to handle underlying causes to sustain compressor availability in the long run spare parts, maintenance, condition- monitoring, training and competence, as well as contracts. The Corporate Maintenance Department, Lundie said, has, at the same time, been working hand in hand with the different asset teams to address “hardware problems and return compressor equipment to A1 condition.” The Discipline Head of Mechanical Maintenance, Mr. Ken Brown, who overseas the tactical teams, said the company was currently carrying out site surveys to assess the condition of compressors and determine the work scope to get them back to optimum condition. Brown said: “We will then prioritise and assign work to areas, specialist vendors or engineering, as the case may be and plan, schedule and execute by the end of this year or early 2005. We believe results will begin to show in the first quarter of next year.”       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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