Tullow holds short course On Oil & Gas

STORY: BEATRICE DEDE ASIEDU & BERNICE AHOTOR
Oil exploration partners at Ghana’s Jubilee Field in the Western Region led by Tullow Oil Ghana Limited last week organised a three-day short course for stakeholders in the oil industry.
The short course brought together traditional leaders, journalists, representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and officials of Tullow Oil Ghana Limited to discuss oil and gas related issues.
The three-day event was aimed at keeping the oil and gas industry players abreast of issues critical to Ghana’s emerging oil and gas economy.
The event gave participants the opportunity to bring to the fore prudent issues that would help make the oil and gas industry function proficiently.
Some of the vital topics that were highlighted included ‘An introduction to the oil & gas industry; The Upstream Oil and Gas Industry; Oil and Gas Industry Structure; How Oil and gas are formed from the Marine Environment, Onshore Environment, Organic Feedstock perspectives.
According to Tullow Oil Ghana Limited, the short course became necessary because players of the oil and gas sector needed to be informed about what oil and gas entailed and what goes into its exploration.
In an incisive presentation by Mr. Ian Phillips, an Oil and Gas Expert, which was basically interactive, he took participants through some of the technical areas of the industry.
He disclosed that oil and gas can be formed from onshore environment that is to say that, plants are the most common based source and thus oil gas can be discovered from them when decayed.
On the accumulation of the discovered oil and gas the oil and gas expert maintained that oil and gas can be accumulated from folded and faulted rocks tectonic forces bend and breaks rock.
Mr. Philips further called on government to, as matter of urgency, send people abroad to study in the production for improved personnel in the field.
He further advised the government to desist from political interference and thus semi-governmental agencies policy must be implemented in the discovered oil to prevent mischievous attitudes and mistrust from the citizenry.
“Semi- governmental agencies policy should be used in the discovered oil to prevent political interference in the oil and gas industry in Ghana,” he advised.
The energy expert emphasised that legal license is pertinent in the industry and that it should be considered important in the industry.