Madam Hardcastle made the disclosure during a working visit on Friday, August 29, to Zeal Environmental Technologies, a local petroleum services provider, at its Nyankrom plant in the Shama District of the Western Region. She explained that the Petroleum Commission is repositioning Ghana as a competitive investment destination for global oil and gas supermajors, while supporting GNPC to begin operations in the Voltaian Basin.
Ghana has issued four exploratory licences to three indigenous oil and gas firms to undertake exploration activities in the onshore Tano and Voltaian basins.
As Ghana gets ready to explore for hydrocarbons at the onshore Voltaian Basin, Nigeria, which has long years of experience and exposure in onshore oil exploration and production is offering ways Ghana can avoid some of the practical errors made in one of the continent’s leading oil-producing nations.
In Ghana’s asymmetrical inland sedimentary basin covering about 40% of its continental landmass, lies the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC)s exploratory mission to find Ghana’s newest hydrocarbons reserve which has so far indicatively proven to wield great potential to replenish the country’s petroleum resource fields with projections setting drilling activities in 2024.
The Overlord of Dagbon, Ya Naa Abukari Mahama II is upbeat about the massive facelift the Northern Region is about to witness as the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) inches closer to drilling an oil and gas exploration well in the Voltaian Basin next year.
The Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC) is hoping to crown its exploratory efforts in the Voltaian basin by drilling a well between fourth quarter of 2023 and first quarter of 2024.