Oil/Gas Service Providers applaud progress of Atuabo Free Port project

The Ghana Oil and Gas Service Providers Association (GOGSPA) has applauded the progress made in the realisation of the Atuabo Free Port project to ease congestion in the twin-city of Sekondi/Takoradi.

Describing it as strategic, the Executive Director of GOGSPA, Nuertey Adzeman, said the project was a significant public-private partnership (PPP) aimed at creating a dedicated port along the coast of Ghana to serve the emerging oil and gas industry for the entire West Africa.

Long overdue

“To those of us in the industry, a dedicated port facility should have been in place even before the oil and gas operations commenced, since the activities of the industry are unique and must not be intertwined with other commercial port services,” he said.

He said the current situation where the industry’s activities were carried out without the requisite infrastructure had resulted in the situation where the every small space in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis, inc