Natural gas-powered electricity generation feasible; East Demerara site identified for pipeline

That has to be expensive and high maintenance.  Amelia must be a better proposal.

How many years of blackout before we get this gas generated electricity? Even bagasse, available now is cheaper.

Baseman posted:

That has to be expensive and high maintenance.  Amelia must be a better proposal.

Compared to that Billion dollar Amaila goadie that Jagdeo was trying to sell us, this will be a bargain. At less than 10 cents per KWH it will be cheaper compared to Amaila.

Amaila is grossly overpriced at 165MW for a billion dollars. 

Mars,

What company completed the feasibility study ?

This is what Exxon initially said:

"Initially, ExxonMobil had said that commercial extraction of associated natural gas from its wells offshore Guyana would not be feasible and would be used to sustain the required pressure to extract oil and then pumped back into the reservoir."

This is what Minister Patterson said:

“It has been confirmed that it is feasible. It has been confirmed that it will be an absolute benefit to the country, has been confirmed-and I can say this and I will go out on a limb and say the numbers are all sub US 10 cents per megawatt hour,” 

Everyone wants Guyanese to have cheaper electricity and this is not in any way a political question. I am just asking a valid question.

Is this another pie in the sky proposal from the PNC?  One thing we know for sure.  They can only propose, they can't get anything done.  Every day there is blackout in Guyana. On Easter Monday at least half of the country was without power.  They brought a Jamaican to run GPL and he still staring at the stars!

yuji22 posted:

Mars,

What company completed the feasibility study ?

This is what Exxon initially said:

"Initially, ExxonMobil had said that commercial extraction of associated natural gas from its wells offshore Guyana would not be feasible and would be used to sustain the required pressure to extract oil and then pumped back into the reservoir."

This is what Minister Patterson said:

“It has been confirmed that it is feasible. It has been confirmed that it will be an absolute benefit to the country, has been confirmed-and I can say this and I will go out on a limb and say the numbers are all sub US 10 cents per megawatt hour,” 

Everyone wants Guyanese to have cheaper electricity and this is not in any way a political question. I am just asking a valid question.

I don't know which company did the feasibility study. We'll have to wait for the details from Patterson.

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