Ghana
has started exporting fuel and gas oil to the landlocked countries of
West Africa.The state-owned Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company
(BOST) Limited, is also supplying petroleum products from the same depot
to Benin Republic and Nigeria. Ghana’s Minister of Petroleum, Mr
Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, who made this known at the meet-the-press
series in Accra, said there were plans to extend the exports to Liberia
in the coming months.
The minister said the vision of the government was to make Ghana the
hub for the distribution of petroleum products in the West African
sub-region.The Bolgatanga Petroleum Depot, with a capacity of 46 million
litres of refined gasoline and gas oil, was re-inaugurated in August
2015.
Buah said Ghana had been ushered into a new gas era that would guarantee its energy security for the next two decades. “Despite the global downturn in the oil industry, we have managed to increase production“,
Buah said. Ghana’s strategic stock was at an all-time high, with about
one million metric tonnes of petroleum products IMPORTED from January to
June 2016.
Ghana is planing to become the major marketer of refined petroleum
product inWest Africa and we here in Nigeria are the giant of Africa
with Nothing to show for it.Imagine Ghana achieving this feet with
IMPORTED petroleum product and I wonder what is wrong with Nigeria
before you export anything out of a country that means you have enough
to give out.
We have more than four refineries in Nigeria and we can’t even produce enough product for our daily consumption.