Ghana to have a petroleum Institute

Ghana to have a Petroleum Institute
Accra, Ghana- Mr Felix Owusu-Adjapong, Minister of Energy on Friday identified unskilled labour and the absence of a credible certification for assessing the existing manpower as a major challenge to the petroleum industry.
“It is therefore encouraging that we have all met here to deliberate on the issue and to formally announce the propose Petroleum Technology Institute, Ghana (PTIG) as a credible institution to address this most critical challenge”, he added.
Mr Owusu-Adjapong was speaking at the forum organised to sensitise the public on the need for Ghana to own a school in that direction. It was under the theme: Building the Knowledge gap Between Education and the Petroleum Industry.
The propose school to kick-off by 2010 in the Western Region would be a centre of excellence in integrated oil and gas engineering and sustainable energy studies and serve as a natural manpower and adaptive research and technology development resource centre in Ghana and West Africa as a whole.
He said government was committed to ensuring that the policy on local content development and utilization was duly pursued to ensure that Ghanaians were adequately trained to acquire relevant competencies.
Mr Owusu-Adjapong said the task of human capital development was a challenged for all stakeholders in the economy, “I therefore urge you to adopt an integrated private-public partnership approach in training and development for the oil and gas industry.
The PTIG is a brainchild of a Nigerian business group in Consultation with the Ghana National Petroleum Council and the ministry of Energy.
When it becomes fully operational, the PTIG would offer postgraduate programmes in petroleum and Well Engineering, Pipeline, Sub-sea and Riser engineering, renewable Energy, Information and Refinery Technology.
Osahene Katakyei Busumakura 111, Takoradi Omanhene said the region was poised to support the project to make it a reality.
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