,”<\/em>as at March this year(2014) this is the total value of service that has gone to Ghanaian companies”.<\/p>\nGhana has earned in excess of 2.1 billion dollars from the commercial production and export of crude from 2011 to June 2014.<\/p>\n
This comes a few weeks after a report cited Ghanaian workers in the oil and gas industry as among the least paid in the world.<\/p>\n
Ghana is currently implementing its local content law expected to ensure that Ghanaians benefit from foreign investments in the oil sector.<\/p>\n
According to Edward Bawa “if you have situations where about almost 600 million dollars of value of service\u00a0 has been given to local companies in Ghana , our whole idea is that over a period of time these figures should start increasing”, Edward Bawa stressed.<\/p>\n
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