From Graphic Online

The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum is facilitating the training of 38 selected journalists from private and public media houses on the oil and gas industry.

The training will equip the journalists to police the country’s new oil and gas industry and to ensure accountability, transparency, as well as understand how the industry works.

The course includes introduction to oil and gas and how the industry works, local content, exploration and production of oil and gas.

The course, which will last three-days, is being facilitated by Go Study Abroad (GSA) and Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEDPMLP) of the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom.

Speaking at the opening ceremony on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, the Deputy Head of Communications at the ministry, Mr Ras Liberty Amewode, said the move was to improve reportage of journalists on the issues of petroleum and power.

The minister said the government recognised the importance of the oil and gas industry to the economic development of the country.

“The oil and gas sector is very complex and that journalists needed to be taken through the details of how the industry worked to enable efficient reportage on the sector,” he said.

The minister expressed the hope that after the training, the selected journalists would be well equipped to report issues that would inform Ghanaians on progress and challenges facing the new industry.

Written by Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu & Andrews Tetteh | Read more at Graphic Online