Founded in 1948 within Douala, SABC now has a series of operations across the City. Both SABC KOUMASSI, a bottle production plant, and SABC NDOKOTI, a bottle wash plant, are connected to natural gas supplied by GDC. SABC’s activity during 2012 is summarized as follows:

Beer: 497 million litres sold representing an increase of 4.5% compared to 2011 and 82.2% market share.

Soft Drinks: 205 million litres sold representing a 1.1% growth compared to 2011.

Natural mineral water: 70 million litres sold; Source Tangui the company’s brand has recorded a decrease of 15.7 % compared to 2011.

Alcomix: In 2012, sales of alcomix, grew by 19.2% to 11 million litres.

SABC net sales without taxes increased by 5.6% to 321.4 billion CFA francs. Net income was 36.3 billion CFA francs.

GDC is also currently discussing a tri-generation (heat, power and cooling) solution with SABC for further work at the plant.

Original parameters (before conversion)

Conversion scope of work for SABC KOUMASSI

• Working with SABC to evaluate cost savings from conversion to gas and create a detailed engineering plan to carry out the changes.
• Location survey of key boiler operations at customer’s plant
• Design of steel pipe route to determine the total length of steel pipe or HDPE (plastic) pipe
• Sizing of the steel pipe
• Sending of the design to the customer for validation
• Sending of the design to procurement for sourcing of contractors
• Procurement of material needed for installation
• Procurement of testing and validation
• Installation of gas supply line (service and customer lines)
• Testing to evaluate strength and tightness of connection
• Commissioning of the PRMS
• Commissioning of the burners
• Gas awareness to customer’s team by GDC’s QHSE*
• Commissioning and Start up