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EPA Petroleum Department
With Ghana’s growth in oil and gas, the EPA’s Petroleum Department was established to manage the sector’s environmental impacts. The department oversees upstream, downstream, emergency response, data management, and incident reporting. A strengthened Western Regional Office handles regulatory duties, focusing on managing local impacts and preparing for future sector developments. Capacity building within the EPA ensures effective environmental management and response readiness across both regional and national levels.
Shoreline Assessment and Response Training
Ghana, as a signatory to the International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation (OPRC), is required to implement measures for effective oil spill management. The EPA is collaborating with the Norwegian Coastal Administration under the Oil for Development (OfD) Programme to strengthen the National Oil Spill Coordination mechanism, including Shoreline Assessment and Response Training to build capacity among regulators and key institutions.
Petroleum Commission to Insist on Advertising Contracts from April 1st
CEO of the Petroleum Commission. Mr. Egbert Faibille has indicated resolve of the Commission to insist on the advertisement of procurement needs by IOCs. Mr. Faibille stressed that the outfit is worried as the development also leads to the awarding of contracts to favourites. “…But from April 1, anybody in the upstream sector who has any contract of a hundred thousand dollars and above to give up, will have to submit that contract to the Petroleum Commission at least two months before the award of the contract so that we will get to know what is involved and will alert all those companies that could put in bids to do so; the time for short term and knee-jerk approaches is over,” he said. This was at the maiden Local Content Procurement Conference held in Accra on Monday which sought to bring IOCs and indigenous companies to share their requirement to enable indigenous companies to bid and win contracts in the upstream petroleum industry. Mr Faibille advised local Ghanaian companies to partner each other and team up, as well as seek partnership from well recognized international companies that have long term experiences and the technical competences so that they could win local bids and fully participate in the local industry.
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