Gas agreement with E. Guinea must be ratified - Minority

15:28 - 25 August 2017

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At a press conference in Accra the Ranking Member of the Mines and Energy Committee, Adam Mutawakilu, said: “it is an international transaction and per the Supreme Court ruling it should be brought to Parliament for ratification."

The Energy Minister must provide Parliament with the details of the agreement for the supply of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Equatorial Guinea to Ghana.

This is a request made by the Minority in Parliament.

The MoU signed indicated that Equatorial Guinea will supply the equivalent of 150 million standard cubic feet of natural gas per day to Ghana.

The MoU also provides for the building and operation of a LNG regasification terminal in Takoradi in the Western Region.

But Mutawakilu said: “LNG supply is not like lean gas from Nigeria where straight away, it goes to the generation plant.”

“In LNG, you look at transportation, you look at the regasification unit, hence the need to find out more information about the regasification unit,” he explained.