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Business News of Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Source: frank owusu obimpeh

5th Oil And Gas Summit Ends

The fifth Ghana Summit, an internationally recognized conference and exhibition ended in Accra last week at the Accra International Conference Centre.

This year’s Ghana oil and gas Summit, the most established oil and gas conference and exhibition in Ghana was opened by His Excellence, President John Dramani Mahama.

Other speakers at the justed ended summit included the Minister of Energy, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Alex Mould, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Mr Theo Ahwering, CEO of the Petroleum Commission, Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey, CEO of the Ghana National Gas Company and Terry Hughes, Director, Project Ten, Tullow Oil.

The conference and exhibition was organised by CWC Group in partnership with Kros Ghana and attracted over 40 other speakers with distinguished careers and expertise in oil and gas, including senior government officials, operators, technocrats, academia and business tycoons.

It will go on records that, the fifth Ghana Summit was the most reputable oil and gas event in the country and featured a two-day conference and a three-day exhibition with up to 100 exhibitors.

This years summit focused on topics such as maximizing the potential of gas, upstream, challenges and opportunities, local content, showcasing Ghana’s investment potential, update on the Volta Basin and a special Project TEN showcase.

“The Ghana Summit 2014 brought together international and regional experts, key decision makers, contractors and service providers under one roof to discuss the future of the energy sector in Ghana” say Willy Olsen, Associate Director of the CWC Group.