President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yester­day inaugurated the new Ghana Civic Petroleum Corpora­tion (GNPC) operational head­quarters, in Takoradi, Western Region

Named the Energy House, the seven-storey building, amid abreast Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in Takoradi, in­cludes an auditorium, a 300-seater appointment room, offices for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), a cat-and-mouse room, an automated kitch­en, and a gym

Executed by Sienna Services, the activity began in August 2020 and was completed in three years

In his remarks, President Akufo-Addo declared the accident as acclaimed and a fulfilment of a affiance he fabricated to the Western Arena in 2016. He said it approved the government's charge to the development of Ghana, partic­ularly the civic assets and the Western Region

President Akufo-Addo indi­cated that the new address would enhance GNPC's op­erations and account the bounded abridgement of the Western Region, stating, "The concrete anatomy symbolises our adherence to de­centralising oil and gas operations in Ghana." Although the adventure had been challenging, he noted, strate­gic planning and abutment from the Western Arena had helped affected obstacles and accompany the activity to fruition

He added that the new GNPC address would strategically position GNPC to become the epicentre of Ghana's oil and gas industry, bringing it afterpiece to the affection of the petroleum ascendancy and authoritative operations added able and effective

The President said the new address would accept a posi­tive appulse on the bounded abridgement and calm businesses in the Western Region

He said there was the charge for the industry to reflect on the en­vironmental appulse of oil and gas activities and bidding the achievement that GNPC and added stakehold­ers would accept best practices, advance college standards, and administer assets sustainably to account the communities

"We charge to accomplish a antithesis amid bread-and-butter advance and ecology sustainability so that the assets become a blessing, not a curse," he stressed, adding, "We abide committed to accuracy for the account of all Ghanaians." The President acclaimed that the new architecture was a bright indi­cation of efforts to strengthen GNPC and accomplish it able-bodied abundant to administer the petroleum indus­try and world-class petroleum companies

Minister of State at the Energy Ministry, Herbert Krapa, said the new GNPC headquarters, amid afterpiece to the Western Region, would accelerate oil and gas opera­tions in Ghana

He acclaimed that the gas infra­structure at Atuabo and the Takoradi-Tema arrangement would abutment the economy, ensure ability bearing aegis in the future, and body assurance with all-embracing oil companies

Mr Krapa told the President, "What you accept done will always be acclaimed by the bodies of Ghana." The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, declared the accident as the realisa­tion of the President's eyes for the Western Region, saying, "The GNPC architecture is a bright attribute of his adherence and adulation for the region." "Today we are actuality to fulfil addition affiance for the Western Region," he added

The GNPC CEO, Mr Joseph Dadzie, bidding his joy about the activity and thanked Mr Darko-Mensah for his arresting contributions and the chiefs for their collaborative support

 FROM CLEMENT ADZEI BOYE, TAKORADI