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38 Journalists receive oil & gas training
The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum is facilitating the training of 38 selected journalists from private and public media houses on the oil and gas industry.
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The training will equip the journalists to police the country’s new oil and gas industry and to ensure accountability, transparency, as well as understand how the industry works.
The course includes introduction to oil and gas and how the industry works, local content, exploration and production of oil and gas.
The course, which will last three-days, is being facilitated by Go Study Abroad (GSA) and Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEDPMLP) of the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom.
Speaking at the opening ceremony on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, the Deputy Head of Communications at the ministry, Mr Ras Liberty Amewode, said the move was to improve reportage of journalists on the issues of petroleum and power.
The minister said the government recognised the importance of the oil and gas industry to the economic development of the country.
“The oil and gas sector is very complex and that journalists needed to be taken through the details of how the industry worked to enable efficient reportage on the sector,” he said.
The minister expressed the hope that after the training, the selected journalists would be well equipped to report issues that would inform Ghanaians on progress and challenges facing the new industry.
“The government is ensuring that the new local content law would allow adequate participation by Ghanaian companies in the oil and gas sector in order to maximise the country’s benefits from drilling oil in its territorial waters,” he said.
Prof. Stephen Dow of CEPMLP of the University of Dundee said it was important to take journalists through the dynamics of the oil and gas, local content, law and contracts, among others.
The Chief Executive Officer of GSA, Ms Monorvi Asampong, said the training was an intensive one and would cover key terms and expressions in the industry.
The CEPMLP at the University of Dundee is an internationally renowned graduate school in the field of natural resources and energy law and policy and is known to be one of the leaders in the industry.