PHDC CEO Charles Owusu ( Right)
The Petroleum Hub Development corporation (PHDC) has touted numerous job opportunities to be created within the first phase of the project.
The CEO of the PHDC Charles Owusu outlined some of the numerous job opportunities the Hub Project would offer when he appeared as a panelist on a session at the 2024 Annual Local Content Conference and Exhibition held on Thursday 3rd October in Takoradi in the Western Region.
The topic for the session was ‘’Developing a Regional Gas Market for a Sustainable Energy and Petrochemical Industry in Ghana”.
Mr. Owusu highlighted local content agenda in the Petroleum Hub Project. He said the 780,000 direct and indirect jobs to be created will be mainly for the locals of the host community within the Jomoro municipal area in the Western Region and Ghana as a whole.
This he noted is a reflection of the project’s concerns for local content development. ‘’to build transparency we’re coming out with a data repository which will be launched soon.
This will enable job seekers to find it easy wherever they are to put in their applications. He said investors could also register their investment needs wherever they are, so they could be contacted by the PHDC to address their concerns” he stated.
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He also called on all Ghanaian businesses within the supply chain to come together now in groups of ten or twenty to take up some of the ancillary infrastructure projects under the Hub including fabrication workshops, state of the art laboratories, power plants, hotels, hospitals among others before foreign investors rush to come in to takeover opportunities within the Hub.
He said the regional hub project is in line with the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and urged Ghanaians to take advantage of the prospects it brings.
Ghana’s Petroleum Hub Development comprises both key and ancillary infrastructure. These include Three Refineries of 300,000 bpsd minimum each, Storage Tanks of 10million cubic metres in capacity, Five Petrochemical Plants with 90,000bpsd minimum processing capacity, Jetties and Port Infrastructure.
. There are also transport, settlement and utilities prospects among others.
Mr. Owusu said the PHDC’s doors are opened for potential investors to partake in Africa’s first Petroleum and Petrochemical Hub.
The Petroleum Hub Project is estimated at a cost of US$60 billion and will occupy 20,000 acres of land size with a coastline in Jomoro.
