At the invitation of the Company, Energy minister Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh visited Taqa Arabia to observe the company’s facilities and interacted with the management with a view of drawing lessons from their operational model.
Taqa Arabia is an Egyptian Energy Company and one of biggest of its kind in Africa and the Middle East.
The company provides a variety of services including, distribution of natural gas, petroleum storage, power generation, petrochemicals and owns one of the biggest Solar PV plants in Africa.
With specific regard to natural gas, the company currently supplies gas to power generation companies, industrial consumers as well as residential consumers, covering over 1.5 million customers.
The company also operates compressed natural gas (CNG) facilities throughout Egypt and other African countries such Mozambique and Equatorial Guinea.
Taqa is a specialist company in retrofitting car engines to use to utilize CNG and have plans to expand their operations throughout Africa to help reduce dependence on gasoline and diesel as the main sources of fuel for transportation.
Having declared natural gas as its energy transition fuel, the development of the gas sector is one of the major priorities of the Ministry of Energy and for that matter the Government of Ghana, especially in the areas of vehicular transportation and industrial consumption.
Natural gas usage in these sectors, will greatly reduce the demand of liquid fuels, thus saving cost and minimizing the release of carbon dioxide and other harmful substances into the atmosphere.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
