Government Inaugurates Second Gas Processing Plant (GPP2) Implementation Committee

Monday, May 12, 2025. Accra – The Minister for Energy & Green Transition, Hon. John Abdulai Jinapor and the Minister for Finance, Hon. Cassiel Ato Forson earlier today inaugurated the Implementation Committee for the construction of Ghana’s Second Gas Processing Plant (GPP II), a transformative national infrastructure initiative aimed at boosting domestic energy capacity, enhancing industrial output, and positioning Ghana as a regional gas processing hub.

The Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh as Chair of the Committee of Energy Ministers of ECOWAS, paid his colleague Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, a visit in Abuja last week. He wanted to establish a cordial relationship and leverage on the experience of Nigeria in the Oil and Gas industry, they having discovered oil over 3 decades ago.

The Ministry of Energy, on Wednesday launched a Health, Safety, Security and Environment Manual on the sector to ensure positive safety culture in the energy sector.

The Minister for Energy, John Peter-Amewu on Thursday commended GOIL for being the first indigenous Oil Marketing Company to construct a Bitumen Plant for storage of raw bitumen for road construction in the country.

Deputy Energy Minister swears in two new board members of NPA

The Ministry of Energy has won the maiden Edition of ‘The Gas Challenge’ organized by the Ghana National Gas Company Ltd at the British Council Auditorium in Accra on 20^th June, 2019.

The Ministry of Energy on Tuesday, 21^st May 2019 publicly opened bids submitted in the ongoing Licensing Rounds for the country’s petroleum blocks in Accra.Companies that submitted bids included Tullow Ghana Limited, Eni Ghana (Exploration and Production) Limited and First E and P Limited/Vitol Upstream Tano Limited.

Oil industry watchers have expressed concern about the inability of Ghanaians to pool resources to take up the five per cent equity participation in the oil sector reserved for indigenes.

Ghanaian companies in the upstream oil and gas sector have described their participation in various trade missions organised by the country’s upstream industry regulator as beneficial to the growth of the local oil industry.