The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has debunked reports of wrongdoing in the award of consultancy contracts in respect of the Saltpond decommissioning project.
An earlier publication by the Africa Intelligence alleged that there have been procurement breaches in the award of consultancy contracts in respect of the Saltpond decommissioning project.
But a statement issued by the GNPC said the Africa Intelligence publication is false.
The GNPC said the publication that suggested that “almost 70% of the consultancy work had already been done by the GNPC’s technical teams” before the project management consultancy contract was awarded is false.”
“It should be noted that the scope of the project management consultancy is in three phases: pre-decommissioning, decommissioning, and post-decommissioning. The critical phase covers decommissioning which is ongoing and post-decommissioning. In recognition of the fact that part of the pre-decommissioning had been done at the time of execution of the project management consultancy contract, the final contract price of under US$300 million was consistent with the change in scope,” the statement added.
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