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GHANA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
ON THE ROAD TO 2030 Tullow Ghana hosted a roundtable during the Africa E&P Summit in September 2020 with senior stakeholders from Ghana’s oil and gas. The panel discussed the opportunities and challenges in the sector on the road to 2030. Deblina Roy reports.
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A good partnership is built on transparency, and Ghana realises the needs to be more proactive in this area.
URING THE ROUNDTABLE, senior stakeholders from Ghana’s oil and gas sector discussed the priorities the government of Ghana and oil and gas companies should focus on over the next decade as the pandemic ebbs and as the industry looks towards energy transition. The participants were Kadijah Amoah, country director, Aker Energy; Richard Hood, senior research analyst, Wood Mackenzie and Dr Ben K.D. Asante, CEO and managing
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director at Ghana Gas. The session moderator Wissam AlMonthiry, managing director, Ghana, Tullow Oil, asked the priorities the government of
Certainty and transparency are key to build up a good partnership between business and the government.”
Ghana and oil and gas companies should focus on over the next decade as the pandemic ebbs and as the industry looks towards energy transition. Speaking about what a good partnership looks like between government and business, especially for Ghana, Richard Hood explained that in this uncertain time, it is more important than ever that all parties across all the boards are on the same wavelength and discuss the same topic with the same alignment towards future
objectives. A good partnership is built on transparency, and it does not hide things on the small points. Ghana also realises the needs to be more proactive in this area. In Ghana, both Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) have an essential responsibility in terms of gaining investor confidence. “It is more important because operators are now operating in a world where it’s not just a subject of an oil price crash. We’ve got this new variable of the energy
