Citi Business News,<\/strong> the Minister of Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah attributed the feat to the passage of the Legislative Instrument (LI) aimed at strengthening the Local Content Law.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Petroleum Commission has been tracking Ghanaian participation and the progress for Ghanaians between January this year and June was that, 221 million dollars of contract have gone to Ghanaians because of the local content LI,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the LI has also enabled the commission to assess the volume of transactions awarded to indigenous companies in the Tweneboa Enyenre Ntomme(TEN) project .<\/p>\n
\u201cWe now can track that almost one billion dollars \u00a0of the contract that went to TEN went to Ghanaians and that is a huge achievement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Touching on other areas in the upstream sub-sector that could be improved, Mr. Buah maintained that it is pertinent to strengthen the capacity of Ghanaian companies to help them compete favourably.<\/p>\n
Foreign companies dominate petroleum sector<\/strong><\/p>\nFigures released by the\u00a0Petroleum\u00a0Commission earlier this year \u00a0indicated that the value of activities ceded to indigenous companies in the Petroleum Upstream sector between\u00a02010 and 2015 was only one billion dollars.<\/p>\n
In all, total value of activities in the Petroleum Upstream sector between the period\u00a0was 6.3 billion dollars with foreign companies having access to \u00a05.3 billion dollars \u00a0of the transactions compared to one billion dollars for local firms.<\/p>\n
Currently there are 300 indigenous companies registered with the Petroleum Commission to work in the sector, while only 150 foreign companies do business in Ghana\u2019s Petroleum Upstream Sector.<\/p>\n
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