The Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel that will be used on Ghana's third oil and gas field Sankofa Gye-Nayame project is to be named after former President John Agyekum Kufuor.
Sources say the name was settled on earlier this year between the partners and government.
A formal program to name the vessel after the ex-president should have happened last week but has been moved to next year.
Mr Kufuor will become the third president after Jubilee FPSO was named after Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) FPSO names after John Evans Atta Mills.
The J. A. Kuffour FPSO is expected to leave for anchorage first week in January 2017 and set sail from Singapore possibly on January 23.
It is expected to arrive in Ghana in March to aid commercial production on Sankofa Gye- Nyame Oil and gas field from July 2017.
It will have the capacity to produce 180 million standard cubic feet of gas daily, sufficient to generate approximately 1,100 megawatts of electricity.
First gas is expected in February 2018, in addition to 30,000 barrels of oil daily, to be produced from August 2017. The almost 8 billion dollar project is jointly owned by ENI, VITOL AND GNPC.
According to analyst the coming on board of this oil field will help improve revenue from the country’s oil field and daily production of crude and gas.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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it really impressed me when i hear this,infact ex-prez kuffour is a supped considering his effort in the oil producing nation[ghana]as one of the most powerful leader playing a role of the country accerelated development ,he deserve what is due to him,we thank God for making the out-going goverment realise the recognition of the great achievement in the kuffour administration,paapa nyame nhyira wo ,oma wo nkwa tsetin,amen.
@ronnie its hate thats motivating you.I doubt if we'd be producing oil if mr. kuffours govt hadn't been in power at the time it did.the colonial governments knew we had oil,post independece governments knew the same but none of them put in the effort the npp under k4 did.yes the deals were not 100% trasparent but they have (k4,npp.)left a defining legacy which ensured there is more money for your soul sourcinng specialist government to steal nyafu nyafu.
Kufuor should have preceeded John Atta Mills. Why Atta Mills was placed ahead of Kufuor makes no sense to me considering the role played by Kufuor in the discovery of oil. what did Atta Mills do? Nothing. It was purely partisan. Shame on NDC.
TWEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Kufuor is the most corrupt ex-prez in West Africa
About time.