But PIAC's Technical Manager, Mark Agyemang, in an interaction pointed, “In my opinion, I think that there should have been an independent assessor. They should have appointed an independent assessor, who will make the data available to all parties, especially Eni. Eni is asking that they should be granted permission to go to Springfield data room but Springfield is refusing that,” he said. He however added that unitisation of oil fields was not a bad thing for the oil and gas sector as it helps to cut cost through facility and development costs. Already, the Sankofa Oil fields forms part of ENI’s Offshore Cape Three Points project and lays off Ghana’s Atlantic Coast of which the GNPC says has reserves of about 40 billion cubic meters of gas and 500 million barrels of oil.

Source: GhanaWeb June 01, 2021 14:03 UTC