Workers of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) are calling on the government to make available crude from the jubilee oil fields in the Western Region, for the refinery to process into finished petroleum products, for the local market.
They argued that TOR had the capacity to refine crude oil to meet 60 per cent of the country’s petroleum requirement, thereby preventing Ghana from spending millions of United States dollars in foreign exchange on Petroleum Distribution Companies (PDCs) to import finished products.
According to the Chairman of the Senior Staff Union of TOR, Mr Bright Adongo, petroleum importation was a highly capital intensive venture, which at the end of the day led to high fuel prices the ordinary Ghanaian had to pay for at the pump.
Speaking to the Ghanaian Times in an exclusive interview during the May Day fanfare at the Independence Square in Accra on Sunday on the state of the country’s premier oil refinery which was lying idle, he implored Ghanaians to compel the government to recapitalise the facility to enable it fulfill its mandate of producing quality premium finished protroleum products.
According to him, TOR was refining crude oil when Ghana had not discovered oil, saying why should we after discovering oil still continue to export the crude when this same could be refined by TOR, he asked.
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