Tension brews on FPSO Kwame Nkrumah as 4 Ghanaian workers fired

 

Aside the dismissal of the four Ghanaian scaffolders and their indigenous company, Seaweld Engineering, which has been working with Modec, managers of the facility since 2010, the company has had its services withdrawn and awarded to a Scottish company, GEV.

GOGSPA call for investigation

The Executive Secretary, Ghana Oil and Gas Service Providers Association (GOGSPA), Mr Nuertey Adzeman says the development came as a shock to members and they had petitioned the Petroleum Commission to investigate the matter.

He said the move by Modec, managers of the FPSO placing an expatriate company over a local company and its employees was against the Local Content and Local Participation Regulation 2013.

The Regulation 12 (2), he said, indicates that “Where an indigenous company has the capacity to execute a job, that indigenous Ghanaian company shall not be disqualified exclusively on the basis of that it is not the lowest financial bidder.”

He said it was also shocking that in less than two hours after the dismissal of the local company and its staff, there was an elaborate plan already in motion to replace them.

 

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