President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) School of Petroleum Studies in Tarkwa of the Western Region.
The school project, with an ultra-modern science laboratory, cost GH¢12 million and forms part of GNPC’s efforts at building local capacity for Ghana’s petroleum sector locally, to maximize value retention.
The GNPC School of Petroleum Studies will have laboratories, lecture halls, an office for lecturers, and other administrative staff. The two schools will work closely with the GNPC Professorial Chairs and will serve as a regional hub for training students in the oil and gas sector.
According to Dr. K. K. Sarpong, GNPC’s Chief Executive, the Corporation was inspired by the President’s self-dependency policy of Ghana Beyond Aid and has taken steps towards making that a reality in the petroleum sector.
He said “We recognize that key to achieving that agenda is to ensure that our institutions of higher learning are producing the human resource requirement that fit not just the sector, but the industry in general. That could only happen through research and collaboration between industry and academia,” he stated.
Additional efforts, he stressed, have been put in place “to accelerate efforts to bridge the gap in the human resource requirements, to build the capacity of Ghanaians along the petroleum industry value chain.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
