Accra, March 13, – The Sixth
edition of the annual Ghana Economic Outlook and Business Strategy Conference
(EOBS) scheduled for March 21, has been launched in Accra with Vice-President,
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia expected to be the guest speaker.
This year’s event is on the
theme: “10 years of Oil and Gas: Challenges and Prospects.”
Dr Yaw Akoto, Board Chairman,
African Business Media, speaking at the Launch said the conference continued to
impact and prove its importance in the national discourse on the economic
development of Ghana.
He said after 10 years of oil
production and managing the significant revenues generated from petroleum, “we
thought that ten years is ample time to do some introspection; to get the key
players in the oil and gas industry together, along with the regulators of the
industry.”
He said it was time to review
what had been done so far and what should further be done to enable Ghana to
achieve more and better success going forward.
“Because of the importance of the
oil and gas sector to the economy, we are once more having the Vice-President
to grace the event as the keynote speaker,” he added.
Dr Akoto said Ghana has made
significant strides since the oil discovery and production from the jubilee
field, adding that, as at September 2017, 24.3 million barrels of oil had been
produced.
He said the government’s
engagement with the largest Oil and Gas Company, ExxonMobil was a strong
indication that major International Oil Companies (IOC) would begin to flock
into the country’s waters to explore at depths from 2,000 to 4,000 meters,
which was impossible, without the likes of the major IOC like ExxonMobil.
He said the conference was going
to have the relevant key players in the industry, constituting the panels that
would be engaged in discussing the issues emanating from the sub-sector.
“Government is fully represented
in the strategic partnership and have the presence of the Ministry of Energy,
Petroleum Commission and the Energy Commission,” he said.
GNA
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