Ghana Project

by: Noemi Melo

A couple weeks I had the honor of meeting a retired petroleum engineer in one of my engineering classes. He was a man with a lot of knowledge in engineering since he started off as a mechanical engineering and later become the head petroleum engineer in many projects.

            There was a project he specifically talked about, his last big project before retiring, which was the “Ghana Project.” This is the first oil drilling project that has ever occurred in Ghana. It flowed from Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) field offshore of Ghana. This milestone was reached on time and on a budget of three years after the Plan of Development was approved by the Government of Ghana in May 2013.

            In March 2009, they first drilled in Ghana. This drilling discovery lead to what followed the further series of appraisal and exploration wells which later resulted in the discovery of the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field.

            In May 2013, The Ghana Minister of Energy approved the Plan of Development for the field and this then lead the second major operation of the deep-water development project in Ghana.

            This engineer went into depth and talked about his experience. It took them three years before they started drilling, they had to construct everything from scratch and make sure that it was the right size and that It would go smoothly. He mentioned that this wasn’t his first project but it was his last project.

            This project is expected to deliver 80,000 barrels of oil per day and Ghana expects at least $20 billion of investment in its booming oil industry over the next five years, mainly from foreign companies.

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