Ghana’s ‘largest’ FPSO named after J.A Kufuor

Ghana’s lates Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel has been named after former president John Agyekum Kufuor at a ceremony in Singapore Mr. Kufuor’s special aide, Frank Agyekum said he arrived in Singapore Wednesday, for the naming vessel which would operate in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) oilfields in the Western Region. “The …

Ghana’s lates Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel has been named after former president John Agyekum Kufuor at a ceremony in Singapore

Mr. Kufuor’s special aide, Frank Agyekum said he arrived in Singapore Wednesday, for the naming vessel which would operate in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) oilfields in the Western Region.

“The FPSO OCTP is the first and largest vessel in Ghana to convert crude oil and gas into finished products on the same platform” a statement copied to GHOne News said.

“The vessel built by Singapore’s Keppel Offshore and Marine Company Ltd will process 58,000 barrels of oil and 98 million standard cubic feet of gas a day from the OCTP fields comprising Sankofa East – Cenomanian Oil, Sankofa East – Campanian Oil, Sankofa Main Gas, Sankofa East Gas, Gye Nyame Gas.

“The vessel is owned by ENI Oil, Ghana Limited, Vitol Upstream, Ghana Limited and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.”

Also in Singapore to help in the naming of the FPSO is First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Agekum shared.

It is expected that, the FPSO JA Kufuor would sail into Ghanaian waters by April 2017, to start work.

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