Ghana: Aker Energy Injects $45m Into AOGC Programmes

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Aker Energy, operator of the Deep-water Tano Cape Three Point (DWT/CTP) Block offshore Ghana, has announced a USD4.5 million support for the Accelerated Oil and Gas Capacity-building (AOGC) Programme, a Ghana government scheme designed to enhance the competences and expertise of Ghanaians in the oil and gas sector.

Mr. Jan Helge Skogen, Country Manager of Aker Energy commended the Ghana Government and the Petroleum Commission for adopting the necessary steps to raise local knowledge and capacity levels in the oil and gas industry and pledged Aker Energy’s continued support for the development of the sector.

Established in November 2017, the AOGC programme is the latest phase of various capacity-building initiatives by the Ghana Government since the discovery of oil and has the primary agenda of enhancing the capacity of Ghanaians to make them employable in the oil and gas sector.

The Programme will run for five years and will seek to train individuals in various technical and vocational areas and also build the capacity of educational institutions to be able to train students and award internationally recognized training certificates.

The AOGC Programme will further provide business and management training for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and ensure the continuous professional development of employees of various public institutions connected to the oil and gas industry.

Aker Energy maintains that the Government’s vision for building the capacity of Ghanaians to enable them participate effectively in the upstream oil and gas sector is perfectly aligned with its own ambition to ‘go beyond local content’ through its commitment to transfer technology, know-how and skills to the local oil and gas industry.

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