A three-day workshop on the emerging Oil and Gas in Ghana has been organised for Twenty-Five young Professionals from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology at the Engineering Guest House. Selected participants for the maiden edition of the workshop were top final year students across all the programmes in the College of Engineering. The theme for the workshop was “First Delivery of Fundamentals of Oil and Gas to Young Professionals as capacity Building for the Emerging Oil and Gas in Ghana”.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the workshop, Prof. William Otu Ellis, Pro-Vice Chancellor on behalf of the Vice Chancellor congratulated the participants for being the pioneers of the training programme. He also gave a brief background on how the workshop was initiated. He said, “staff of Petroleum Engineering department put up a splendid performance in a special training programme in Oil and Gas organised by Afren Plc, UK in August last year at Accra. As a result the University had discussions with the firm, hence KNUST being used as a pivot of training young professionals in Oil and gas.
He added that, the wonderful initiative had come at the convenient time, when the nation is confronted with exploitation of its new found oil. He therefore anticipated that the workshop would equip the participants with the requisite skills and knowledge needed in the of oil and gas production.
He appropriately advised the participants to take the training seriously so that the offer Afren Plc has given the University would be permanently maintained.
In an interview with the special consultant to the Afren Plc, UK, Mr. Marc-Andre Wulfrath, who was also one of the speakers, said that, the training workshop was to give the participants the opportunity to get insight into the industry.
He commented on the active participation, interest and involvement on the part of the beneficiaries as being extra-ordinary.
The students also confessed that, the workshop has been highly interesting, lively and had enhanced their knowledge on the subject. They added that, it had been highly interactive.
Other facilitators of the workshop were Dr. Stephen K. Donyina, Dr. Peter Achireko, Mr. Emmanuel Bentum, (Lecturers from the Department of Chemical Engineering, KNUST) and Mr. James O. Adeleye (Lecturer at UMAT).
