ConocoPhillips, one of the world’s largest independent E&P companies, has shut down its office in Houston, Texas, USA, due to Harricane Laura storm.
The storm has wreaked havoc to properties and human lives.
In a tweet, the company said the office would, however, reopen from Monday, 31st, August, 2020.
“We encourage those in Texas and Lousiana, who are in the path of Harrican Laura, to learn more and follow local guidelines,” the company said in the tweet.
Louisiana Gov., John Bel Edwards warned today that parts of the state would be submerged underwater from Hurricane Laura.
“The surge is going to inland, they predict, and there will be parts of Lake Charles underwater that no living human being has everseen before,” he said in an interview with WWL Radio.
“We are marshaling all of our people and assets to go in tomorrow and start a very robust search and rescue effort,” Edwards added.
“We’ve brought in search and rescue teams from other states, such as Tennessee, for example.
“The first thing about tomorrow is all about saving lives and, of course, we will be transporting a lot more people to shelters initially and ultimately to hotel and motel rooms.”
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The circumstances that excited Ghana’s investigative body, Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), to jump into an ongoing investigation by the Ministries Police station over an alleged cloned cheque of the Ministry of Energy by some unscrupulous persons have raised eyebrows at the Ministry.
The unscrupulous persons allegedly attempted to transfer an amount of GHS3,540,000 from the Energy Ministry’s account at National Investment Bank (NIB) into Guma Oil and Gas Ltd account at Zenith Bank.
The Chief Director and Finance Director of the Energy Ministry Mr Lawrence Apaalse and Kwasi Adjei had lodged a complaint at the Ministry’s Police Station for investigations to be conducted into an act of forgery, but surprisingly, EOCO took over the investigation.
Officials of EOCO, recently, announced in press interviews that they had arrested the Managing Director of Guma Oil and Gas Ltd, Fuseini Abdulai, Bright Addison and Dennis Koranteng in connection with a forgery incident at the Ministry of Energy.
However, EOCO’s involvement in investigating the case has come as a surprise to the Chief Director and the Finance Director as to whether the purported act was deliberately engineered by some persons within the Ministry or outside in order to get them interdicted to kick them out of office.
According to statements presented to the Ministries’ Police Station by the Chief Director and Finance Director which were sighted by energynewsafrica.com, Kwasi Adjei, on April 23, this year, at about 12:43pm, received a WhatsApp message and a telephone call from the Ministry’s Relationship Manager at the National Investment Bank (NIB) for the confirmation of a cheque.
Chief Director’s statement to the police
It said when Kwasi Adjei checked a scanned cheque number 002289 with a face value of GHS3,540,000 issued in favour of Guma Oil and Gas Limited and forwarded to him on WhatsApp, he quickly went to the office to check only to realise that the cheque book contained the cheque leaflet with the number 002289 and so, notified the Chief Director about it.
The statement said the Chief Director, upon a careful examination of the cheque, realised that the signature purported to be was not exact.
Statement by the Finance Director
“The Director Finance and I then drafted and jointly signed a letter to the National Investment Bank (NIB) distancing ourselves from the said cheque on the same day and proceeded to make this report,” part of the statement read.
Information available to energynewsafrica.com indicated the Chief Director, in the company of the Finance Director, went to NIB to instruct them not to honour the cheque. The Chief Director, per information available, then made attempts to brief the Energy Minister, John-Peter Amewu, in the office about the forgery incident, but when he could not get him in the office, he called the Minister on the telephone to tell him about the incident and the action that had been taken.
He indicated to him that the Finance Director and the Internal Auditor of the Ministry would brief him on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.
However, barely a week after the briefing, Mr Amewu received a letter from the Executive Director of Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), signed by the first Deputy Director, inviting the Chief Director and Finance Director for questioning.
According to sources, Mr Amewu immediately directed the Chief Director and Finance Director to follow Paul Gyan, Godwin Semeh and William Amoako, who are EOCO officials, for questioning.
EOCO, later, invited Charles Fobi, Chief Treasury Officer, Richard Kwaku Boadu, Chief Accountant, Gifty Jackson, Secretary to the Finance Director, Awudu Issaka, Accounts Manager, and David Nortei, Accounts Officer, for questioning.
Although, a letter written by COP Frank Adu-Poku (Rtd), Executive Director of EOCO, to Mr Peter Amewu, and intercepted by energynewsafrica.com, has cleared the Chief Director and Finance Director of the Ministry of Energy of any wrongdoing, the treatment by EOCO officials to the Chief Director and the Finance Director has compelled the Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co Chambers, who are lawyers of the Chief Director and the Finance Director, to write to the Executive Director of EOCO to make some demands.
The lawyers are demanding, among other things, the identity of the person who instructed them to get involved in investigating the case and person’s interest since the police had assured their client of pursuing those behind the cloned cheque.
The lawyers said this demand in particular is relevant because all interested parties in the case, notably the Energy Minister and staff of the Ministry, Police and NIB, have denied reporting the matter to EOCO.
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The Buhari administration in the Republic of Nigeria has announced that “poor and vulnerable” Nigerians will be exempted from an increment in electricity tariff.
President Muhammadu Buhari, last Tuesday, approved the implementation of the proposed cost-reflective energy tariff for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), but said residential areas classified as “poor” will not be affected.
A statement signed by James Momoh, chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), on Wednesday, confirmed that the new tariff regime will exempt those who consume 50kW or less.
The NERC chairman added that customers on estimated billing will not also be affected as the president has ordered mass metering of consumers across the country.
“NERC wishes to clarify that tariff reviews going forward will only follow service-based principles. Under these service-based principles DisCos will only be able to review tariff rates for customers when they consult with customers, commit to increasing the number of hours of supply per day and quality of service,” Momoh said.
“In all cases poor and vulnerable Nigerians will not experience any increase. In line with these expectations, DisCos are directed to engage with their customers on a Service Based Tariff structure,” he said.
Mr. Momoh said DisCos can only review tariffs for customers under the following conditions.
“Customers are consulted and communicated a guaranteed level of electricity service by the DISCOs based on hours of supply; customers are metered; no estimated billing through the strict enforcement of the capping regulation.
“This means that unmetered customers will not experience any cost increase beyond what is chargeable to metered customers in the same area. Even under the above conditions, there will be no change in tariff for the most vulnerable as tariffs for those consuming 50KW or less remains frozen.
“Customers receiving less than 12 hours of supply will also not experience any change in tariffs. In addition, the President has directed that there should be a nationwide mass-metering program in an effort by the Federal Government to put a stop to estimated and arbitrary billing for electricity.”
In January, NERC had announced that there would be an upward review of electricity tariffs across the country from April 1.
However, it directed electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to suspend the proposed tariff increase in March as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Greenpeace activists from Germany have launched a protest in the North Sea to call out Shell’s plans to abandon an estimated 11,000 tonnes of oil in the sea, offshoreenergytoday.com has reported.
According to the report, the environmentalists group’s, Esperanza Ship approached the 500m exclusion zone of Shell’s platforms in the Brent oil field, off the Shetland Islands, with protestors on board waving banners calling on Shell to clean up its mess.
Greenpeace said its protest was to highlights how Shell is failing to take responsibility for its harmful impact on the environment.
“Shell still wants to cheaply dismantle the platforms, and the UK government is colluding with them to allow it,” Dr. Christian Bussau, Greenpeace Germany marine biologist, reported said.
“Shell’s profit-before-people business model is blocking an opportunity to create jobs to dispose of the 11,000 tonnes of oil and parts of the platform that must be removed in an environmentally friendly manner. Shell must urgently get out of the dirty oil and gas industry and pivot its business to renewable energy”.
Greenpeace claims that, according to Shell’s decommissioning proposals, it will leave behind the remains of four platforms in the Brent oil field.
Shell estimates three of those platforms contain 640,000 cubic metres of oily water and 40,000 cubic metres of oily sediment with a total content of more than 11,000 tonnes of oil.
“While the rest of the world has moved on, Shell apparently still believes the world is its garbage dump, just as it did 25 years ago. If we don’t immediately transition to renewable energy we’re going to see more leaks and oil spills, more fossil fuel-driven inequality and more exacerbated extreme weather events like the floods, fires and storms we’re seeing everywhere. A just transition means governments turning their backs on fossil fuel and supporting workers into shifting to jobs with a future”, Bussau said.
In October last year, the member states of the OSPAR Commission (Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic) met in London and discussed Shell’s plans, with the UK government indicating its approval.
The German government lodged an official objection. The EU Commission, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands also spoke out against leaving 11,000 tonnes of oil in the concrete tanks on the seafloor. But the final decision has been postponed and is pending.
“An approval from the member states would set a dangerous precedent for other oil companies and further the destruction of the North Sea”, Greenpeace concluded.
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Some staff of Ghana’s Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) have taken to social media platforms to express their frustration about the Akufo-Addo’s administration lack of interest in making the country’s only refinery work consistently by ensuring that the refinery gets regular supply of crude oil.
Energynewsafrica.com understands the refinery has been shut down for the past one and half month due to lack of crude oil for processing.
The workers, who spoke to energynewsafrica.com, said they are shocked that the governing NPP never indicated what the next NPP administration would do to make the refinery operate at full capacity and efficiently.
It is unclear whether the government intends to convert the refinery into tank farm as it has been speculated.
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A domestic gas explosion at Powerland, a suburb of Madina in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana, on Tuesday has reportedly rendered scores of people homeless.
The explosion is said to have started in a wooden structure at Powerland, near Crown Medical Centre, and spread to other structures.
It is unclear what caused the explosion but some eyewitnesses said the fire started when a woman, who was frying eggs, forgot to turn off her LPG cylinder after she had finished, thereby, causing the fire.
They continued that the woman, ignorant of how to douse the fire, dashed out wailing for help, a situation that escalated the inferno.
Speaking to energynewsafrica.com, Mr. Alexander Amankwah Agyei, who is an investigator with the Madina Fire Station, said the fire destroyed about sixty-five wooden structures.
He said the intervention of the fire personnel prevented it from spreading to other concrete houses in the vicinity.
He said the fire escalated because almost all the occupants of the affected structures used LPG cylinders.
According to him, they retrieved about 62 gas cylinders which were completely burnt.
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Ghana’s national oil company, GNPC, is said to have released an amount of US$10 million for the acquisition of land and related expenses for the government’s intended regional oil services hub in the Western Region.
This is contained in the governing New Patriotic Party’s 2020 Manifesto titled: ‘Leadership of Service, Protecting Our Progress and Transforming Ghana For All’.
The Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration promised in their 2016 Manifesto to establish a picture of hub in the Western Region to serve the West African subregion.
However, that vision could not be fully actualised, but energynewsafrica.com confirm that plans are far advanced for the realisation of the project.
Our sources from the Ministry of Energy indicate that the Deputy Minister for Energy in charge of Infrastructure and MP for Effia, Joseph Cudjoe, recently, led a delegation from the Ministry to visit chiefs and elders of the area where a land had been acquired for the petroleum hub project to be established.
Speaking at the unveiling of the 2020 Manifesto of the governing NPP in Cape Coast in the Central Region, a Deputy Minister for Energy in charge of Petroleum, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam revealed that a bill establishing the Petroleum Hub Corporation to be responsible for the project is currently under parliamentary consideration.
“We will pursue relevant reforms in the upstream petroleum sector and provide incentives for the revival of exploration activities after the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.
The petroleum hub project will have, among other facilities,four new oil refineries each with a capacity of 150,000bpd, storage tanks for crude and finished products, two oil jetties, two petrochemical plants with processing capacity of 45,000bpsd each, as well as waste and water treatment plants.
It is estimated that 780,000 jobs would be created when the project commences and completed.
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Ghana’s former President and flag-bearer of the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has served notice that his administration will probe into the cancellation of the Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana deal with the Electricity Company (ECG) if voted to lead the country again.
Eligible Ghanaians will be going to the polls on December 7, this year, for yet another general elections.
According to the former President, there are many unresolved issues surrounding the PDS deal, which was cancelled a few months after its operationalisation.
Ghana’s power distribution company, ECG, on behalf of the Government of Ghana and under the Ghana Power Compact II, entered into a concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana for period of 20 years.
Per the agreement, ECG was to be the assets owner while PDS was to be responsible for the distribution and retail business of electricity.
The agreement took effect from March 1, 2019.
However, few months into the operations of PDS, controversy started unfolding around the deal with the government alleging fraud in the deal.
The President, Akufo-Addo, later terminated the deal, citing fundamental and material breach of the agreement on the part of PDS.
Officials of PDS, who were not happy about the government’s decision, have since taken the matter to court.
However, speaking in an interview with TV XYZ and as monitored by energynewsafrica.com, Mr. Mahama resurrected the debate on the PDS saga, promising to open investigation into the issue if voted back to power.
“If I become President, we will investigate PDS especially when it is obvious that persons related to the President were involved in structuring the deal,” he assured Ghanaians.
The former President said there is enough evidence to warrant a probe of PDS.
John Mahama said there is the need for an account to be given of the monies collected by PDS during the time it was managing the country’s power sector.
“The people of Ghana need to know what happened because this was a situation in which the assets of a state-owned institution were being handed over to a private company. As I speak today, for the period that PDS collected money when they were running the ECG, monies that ran into billions of cedis had not been accounted for People cannot just pocket state monies and walk freely with it,” Mahama said.
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Sasol, integrated energy and chemical company has selected seven small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) from in and around Sasolburg in the Free State to take part in its newly launched 24-month Sasol Business Accelerator (SBA) programme.
The businesses are in the manufacturing, engineering services, engineering maintenance, hired equipment, HVAC and recyclables industries.
“They were selected through a stringent and thorough four week selection process managed by Zevoli, which is an independent third-party company appointed by Sasol to assist with the selecting and screening of potential candidates for the programme,” Ofentse Tiro, Enterprise and Supplier Manager at Sasol said in a statement issued by the company.
In May this year, Sasol announced that applications were open for SMMEs that are located in Metsimaholo, Emfuleni and Ngwathe Local Municipalities operating in the above-mentioned sectors to join the SBA programme. The deadline for applications was Wednesday, 17 June 2020.
The company said it received nearly 200 applications for the programme SMMEs from even outside of the specified municipal areas.
However, as Sasol’s commitment is to primarily develop SMMEs in its fence-line communities, focus was on those in the Free State.
The seven successful SMMEs will kick-off the programme this week with a three-day induction training that starts today (Monday 24,2020).
The purpose is to provide the companies with an overview of Sasol’s operations, highlight the importance of safety, and outline what they can expect over the coming months in relation to the accelerator programme.
The SMMEs will based at the Sasol Business Incubator in Sasolburg. Located inside Sasol’s Eco-industrial Park in Sasolburg, the facility is fully-equipped and structured to host and enable this diverse mix of businesses to be developed into larger companies.
The 24-month SBA programme, which kicks off this week, will focus on infrastructure support, development support, mentoring and coaching, networking and funding support.
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The Managing Director of Total E&P Nigeria Ltd, Mike Sangster, has attributed the decline in oil and gas exploration activities in West Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, to what he described as an inconsistent fiscal and regulatory policy of the Federal Government.
According to a report filed by Vanguard, Mike Sangster argued that there are no proportionate exploration activities to ensure long term sustainability and replenishment of the resource that accounts for more than 90 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings.
“Total as a key stakeholder in the Nigerian oil and gas industry is prepared to work with the government, partners, and other stakeholders, to address these bottlenecks to new exploration investments,” Vanguard quoted him as saying.
Sangster also noted that the adverse effect of the raging Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on lives and businesses, especially the Oil & Gas industry, cannot be overemphasized.
He was reported to have said this at the monthly technical presentation of Nigeria Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) last Wednesday.
He stated: “These will have implications on the investment strategies and imperatives for businesses and even governments around the world. NAPE should adapt to a post-Coronavirus world and seek ways of reinventing itself for the purpose of continued relevance.
“I have no doubt that the respectable membership of this body will take advantage of this month’s presentation to make deliberate, robust, and incisive contributions aimed at addressing the many challenges confronting our industry and nation.”
He said that Total contributed $3.2 million (N1.2 billion) as part of the N21 billion donation spearheaded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in support of the Federal Government’s COVID-19 efforts.
“The company also supported the Lagos State Government with critical supplies and medical equipment. In Rivers State, we reached out to our stakeholders by providing medical supplies and support for our host communities and the State Government.
“Our downstream company, Total Nigeria Plc donated N50 million as part of a combined contribution from the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), under the auspices of the NNPC and provided the Lagos State Government with fuel for logistical support during the pandemic,” he added.
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A fire at a hydroelectric power plant operated by Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Limited (TSGenco) has killed nine workers in the town of Srisailam, south east India.
The blaze broke out late on August 20, trapping the nine people in an underground part of the facility, reports energyworld.com.
According to the online portal, a company’s statement identified the deceased as Deputy Engineer Srinivas Goud, Assistant Engineers Venkat Rao, Mohan Kumar, Fatima Ujma, plant attendant Rambabu, junior attendant Kiran and Sundar Kumar, and two technicians from Amararaja company Vinesh Kumar and Mahesh Kumar.
“They tried to come out from the escape tunnel, but could not do so due to the dense smoke,” the company said.
There were 17 people in the plant at the time of the accident. Eight of them could safely come out, but nine were trapped inside the plant, TSGENCO said.
TSGENCO said that the fire incident occurred at 10:30 pm on Thursday.
“The fire accident occurred in the 900 MW capacity hydro electric power station on the left bank of Srisailam reservoir at 10.30 pm on August 20. The fire broke out in the panels in unit 1 of the power station which led to the accident. The employees tried to put off the fire and save the plant from burning. The employees tried their level best till 12 am last night, but in vain,” the statement reads.
“Telangana Power Minister Jagadeeswar Reddy, TS GENCO CMD Devulapalli Prabhakar Rao, GENCO directors and senior employees rushed to the spot and monitored the rescue operations. NDRF, Singareni coal mines technicians and Telangana state fire services rushed to the plant and tried to rescue the trapped ones,” it
added.
The plant is 1.2 km deep from the earth’s surface and there is only one tunnel to go there, TSGENCO said.
“As fire and dense smoke spread, it was not possible to go inside for a very long time. The teams could enter the plant by the afternoon of Friday,” it said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu have expressed grief at the loss of lives in the incident.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao expressed shock over the fire incident.
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ExxonMobil has signed an agreement with Global Clean Energy Holdings to purchase 2.5 million barrels of renewable diesel per year for five years from a converted California refinery starting in 2022.
The deal was signed at about a week ago.
The renewable diesel will be sourced from a refinery acquired by Global Clean Energy in Bakersfield, California, which is being retooled to produce renewable diesel from Global Clean Energy’s patented varieties of camelina, a fallow land crop that does not displace food crops, and other non-petroleum feedstocks.
Following scheduled production startup in 2022, ExxonMobil plans to distribute the renewable diesel within California and potentially to other domestic and international markets.
“Our agreement with Global Clean Energy builds on ExxonMobil’s longstanding efforts to develop and offer products that help meet society’s energy needs while reducing environmental impacts,” Bryan Milton, president of ExxonMobil Fuels and Lubricants Company said.
“Chemically similar to petroleum-based diesel, renewable diesel can be readily blended for use in engines on the market today.”
“Our relationship with ExxonMobil is a perfect fit for Global Clean Energy and the Bakersfield biorefinery because it leverages ExxonMobil’s scale and unrivaled market perspective to unlock value for both companies,” Richard Palmer, CEO of Global Clean Energy Holdings said.
“By combining upstream feedstock supply and downstream production, we are moving toward the fully integrated production model pioneered by ExxonMobil.”
In addition to camelina, various non-petroleum feedstocks, including used cooking oil, soybean oil, distillers’ corn oil and other renewable sources will be refined to produce the renewable diesel.
Based on analysis of California Air Resources Board (CARB) data, renewable diesel from various non-petroleum feedstocks can provide life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions reductions of approximately 40 percent to 80 percent compared to petroleum-based diesel.
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Sasol, intergrated energy and chemical company has announced that it will be donating 10 000 litres of methanol and 600 kg of hydrogen every month until the end of April 2021 to help power the field ICU facility of 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.
According to the company, it is also working with its customers, Air Products and Protea Chemicals, to assist with logistics for supplying the fuels to 1 Military hospital.
The company made this promise following the unveiling of five methanol fuel cell systems and two hydrogen fuel cell systems, which will be used at Pretoria’s 1 Military Hospital as a primary source of power for the field hospital facilities established as part of Government’s response to COVID-19.
The project was a partnership between the DSI, the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, the Department of Defence, and private sector companies.
In addition to it being part of government’s COVID-19 response, it is also integral to government’s vision to integrate hydrogen within the economy, motivated by the benefits that will accrue as a result, which include decarbonising the economy.
“This is an important initiative for Sasol for many reasons,” Charlotte Mokoena, Executive Vice President for Human Resources and Corporate Affairs at Sasol said in a press release.
“In addition to the fact that this contribution espouses who we are as Sasol and demonstrates our unwavering commitment to supporting and collaborating with government in executing innovative solutions to current challenges, it also illustrates the direction Sasol is taking. We are deliberately pursuing renewable energy sources through technology, innovation and collaboration, and sustainably produced hydrogen is integral to us reducing our carbon footprint across our operations.”
Sasol pledged its commitment to continue working with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) in the process towards the development of a South African Hydrogen Roadmap.
“We see public-private and private-private partnerships as critical in decarbonising South Africa’s energy landscape, whilst fulfilling socio-economic and sustainable development goals,” Mokoena said.
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The Akufo-Addo-led governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has assured Ghanaians that it will continue to build critical infrastructure for the country’s energy industry, reduce distribution losses, improve reliability in power supply as well as increase power and natural gas exports to the West African sub-region if they retain power in December 7, 2020, polls.
Speaking at the launching of the NPP’s 2020 Manifesto in Cape Coast in the Central Region, Saturday, Deputy Energy Minister in charge of Petroleum, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam said the next NPP-led government will continue to pursue its plan to develop Ghana into a regional petroleum hub in the Western Region of the country.
The Akufo-Addo-administration promised in its 2016 Manifesto to establish petroleum hub in the Western Region, but that vision has not been fully actualised.
Energynewsafrica.com understands that a 200-acre land has been secured in the Western Region for the project.
Our sources from the Ministry of Energy indicate that the Deputy Minister for Energy in charge of infrastructure and MP for Effia Constituency Hon. Joseph Cudjoe recently led a delegation from the Ministry to visit chiefs and elders of the area where the hub is expected to be sighted.
Dr Amin revealed that a bill establishing the Petroleum Hub Corporation is currently under parliamentary consideration.
“We will pursue relevant reforms in the upstream petroleum sector and provide incentives for the revival of exploration activities after the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are on course to building an energy economy, which we are promising you, for the rapid industrialisation and transformation of our country
“Your vote for President Akufo-Addo and the NPP means a vote for the efficient management of the energy sector,” he stressed.
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They continued that the woman, ignorant of how to douse the fire, dashed out wailing for help, a situation that escalated the inferno.
Speaking to energynewsafrica.com, Mr. Alexander Amankwah Agyei, who is an investigator with the Madina Fire Station, said the fire destroyed about sixty-five wooden structures.
He said the intervention of the fire personnel prevented it from spreading to other concrete houses in the vicinity.
He said the fire escalated because almost all the occupants of the affected structures used LPG cylinders.
According to him, they retrieved about 62 gas cylinders which were completely burnt.
Source:www.energynewsafrica.com
