The second phase of Sonangol’s Gas Reception and Distribution Unit (URDG), called “Falcão Phase 2”, which will process 50 million cubic feet of gas/day, came into operation this Thursday December 14th, in the municipality of Soyo, in the province of Zaire.
The inauguration ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Diamantino Azevedo, witnessed by the governor of Zaire, Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, and the PCA of Sonangol, Gaspar Martins, in the Kintambi area.
Built over a period of 23 months, with a budget of 42.8 million dollars, it will receive natural gas from the Angola LNG factory, treat it and subsequently feed the six Soyo I Combined Cycle turbines, two of which are steam turbines that generate up to 750 MW of clean energy.
The aforementioned unit, which will inject a total of 125 million cubic feet of gas into the Soyo I Combined Cycle, is responsible for 220 direct jobs during construction, 20 of which are expatriates. Meanwhile, at this stage of operation, it has 29 workers.
