Preparing For Oil Boom in Ghana - Any Lessons From Others?

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This author has discovered that there is no single school-going-kid in Libya who isn't in school.

Remember this basic yet insightful Ghanaian precept which reprimands us: "Assuming Sunday will be a heavenly day, Saturday will light the shape."

Ghana is quite possibly of the most honored land in Africa. Ghana is extremely, plentiful in mineral assets. Ghana is invested with gold, precious stone, bauxite, manganese and so on. Ghana has cocoa, lumber, arable terrains, and streams, tropical jungles, fed with exchanging downpours and enlightened by tropical sun sparkle lasting through the year.

In any case, Ghana has been politically blundered for quite a while by degenerate legislators and self centered military globe-trotters who could make a boat heap of cocoa to be on the loose on the Atlantic Sea. This makes sense of why Ghana must be dedicated a Vigorously Obligated Unfortunate Nation ( HIPC) in the financial history of the country.

In June 2007, pretty much three months after Ghana had commended her Brilliant Celebration Commemoration, on sixth Walk that year, an American oil investigation organization called Kosmos Energy as a team with Ghana Public Petrol Company (GNPC) went to the Palace Osu in Accra to see the Leader of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Mr John Agyekum Kufuor. In a common Ghanaian conventional design, President Kufuor and his elderly folks plunked down to pay attention to the logical and mechanical guests.

The head of Kosmos Energy, Mr. James C. Musselman, who is likewise the Director and CEO of that oil investigation organization, advised the official etymologist to illuminate the President that they had carried uplifting news to him. Then the President answered: "In Ghanaian culture, news can't be supposed to be positive or negative until it is told. Thus, subsequently, I, the primary community worker of the land and my official seniors are listening eagerly to hear the news you brought this sunrise when we are yet to put a drop of water on our tongues."

It was then that Mr. Musselman advised the official etymologist to illuminate H.E. that he and his accomplices had come to report to the President that Kosmos Energy had found oil in business amount seaward the Republic of Ghana on the West Cape Three Focuses Block in the western area of the country. At first the President appeared to be not to appropriately have heard the message. In this way, he changed himself in his imperial/official rocker, made a sound as if to speak and directed the official language specialist to arrange the Kosmos designer to rehash his message. Then Mr Musselman, somewhat anxious, as though he had committed some bumble, and with apprehensive voice said: "Pleeease, eerr - Okyeame, I say mercifully illuminate His Excellency the President that our main goal here today is to report to him that our organization has found around 600million barrels of light oil seaward his cherished nation - Ghana.

One would have anticipated that the President should leap to his feet immediately and begin jubilating. Rather President Kufuor further tested: "Okyeame, ask the Kosmos engineer what is the proof that Ghana has found oil as he guarantees." Then, at that point, Mr Musselman, put his hand in a goat skin cowhide pack and drew out a container of some dull caramel fluid. A portion of the fluid was filled a plate. To a layman like this creator, the said fluid seemed to be unadulterated honey. "Take this," says Mr Musselman, "present it to H.E. that this is the confirmation that Ghana has oil streaming under the ocean in the Western Locale."

It was shortly after President Kufuor, has held the example of the oil in his own hand and plunged his own pointer in the honey-like fluid and smelled it before he gestured his head favorably that Ghana has really found oil in business amount. Then President Kufuor rehashed what he said in his transmission to the country just before Ghana's Brilliant Celebration Commemoration: "IT IS Extraordinary Opportunity TO BE GHANAIAN."

President Kufuor then, at that point, offered his own thanks and that individuals of Ghana to Kosmos and its accomplices for a brilliant task finished. He immediately advised that genuineness, straightforwardness and the soul of shared benefit rule should direct the activities of oil organizations investigating the "dark gold" in Ghana. The President was talking for a fact as far as the day to day environments of individuals and networks where Ghana's red gold which has been mined from days of yore and the ecological debasement being handed down to ages yet unborn.

On Tuesday, June 10, 2008, the whole first page of the Everyday Realistic was given exclusively to oil revelation business in Ghana. As a matter of fact, the pennant title for that day read: Trial of well yields positive outcomes. OIL - 120,000 BARRELS IN A DAY - Creation expected to ascend in 2012. This title was shown with a lead photo wherein President J.A.Kufuor was seen praising Mr James Musselman, the CEO of Kosmos Energy, after the last option had informed the President on the most recent improvement in the nation's oil find. In a similar picture were spotted Mr George Owusu, said to be Ghana's delegate of Kosmos, as well as Mr Sekyere Abankwa, Board Director of GNPC.

The primary passage of this lead story, composed by Nehemia Owusu Achiaw read: "Business creation of oil is planned to start in the country in the main quarter of 2010 with an underlying result of 120,000 barrels per day."

The second most significant story on the first page of the paper that day, as well, had to do with oil investigation in Ghana. It was subtitled: "...41 Firms apply for investigation" The initial section read: "The Ghana Public Petrol Enterprise (GNPC) says it has been immersed with applications from unfamiliar organizations communicating revenue to put resources into oil investigation between January 2007 and June 2008."

The reason for this piece is basically to help individuals to remember this country that regardless of whether we like it, Ghana is on the move from Oil Bringing in Nation (OIC) to Oil Sending out Nation (OEC). At the end of the day, all being equivalent, there will be oil blast in Ghana, sooner than expected, in light of what specialists in the business are talking about. Normally, this calls for celebration. However, we as a country genuinely must proceed carefully so the oil find in Ghana will be a gift and not a revile.

For the present this creator will simply prefer to refer to two oil delivering nations in Africa in particular, Nigeria and Libya and alarm Ghanaians to observe how those nations are dealing with their oil blast to assist their kin. It seems something isn't being done as expected in that frame of mind of the oil business in Nigeria. Thus the delta oil rich area is being corrupted ecologically. Media reports show that the neediness level of individuals residing in that oil rich area in Nigeria is not a big deal. Why? No further remarks for the present ghana web news today.
 
Then again, it appears Libya is accomplishing something deserving of imitating by Ghana. This author has discovered that there is no single school-going-kid in Libya who isn't in school. That not a solitary grown-up resident of that nation has no condo for oneself. As a matter of fact, Libya is a nation situated in a desert in northern piece of Africa. Yet, Libya has had the option to make a counterfeit stream of thousands of kilometers long and is currently changing the desert into a virgin tropical jungle zone through water system plans. How can Ghanaians plan for oil blast in Ghana? Might it be said that they are advancing any illustrations from others?

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