Trinidad and Tobago has promised to place its expertise and more than 100 years experience in the oil and gas industry at the disposal of Ghana.
The country’s envoy to Ghana, Mrs Victoria Mendez-Charles, gave the assurance when she called on the Western Regional Co-ordinating Council on Wednesday.
She said Ghana had the potential to harness its latest discovery in addition to many of its natural resources to its advantage.
Trinidad and Tobago is said to be one of the wealthiest countries in the Caribbean due to maximum use of its large reserves of oil and gas, the exploitation of which dominates its economy.
She said about 99 per cent of the energy needs of Trinidad and Tobago were gas-powered, while the country exported petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas and chemicals, among other things.
Mrs Mendez-Charles said what Ghana needed at the moment was support to exploit its discovery to build a stronger economy.
She said it was very important that Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago collaborated to ensure that every benefit that would accrue from the oil find benefited the country.
She said her government was seeking to extend its technical expertise to Ghana, describing the country as one of the countries with which they had long-standing relations.
For her part, the Deputy Western Regional Minister, Ms Betty Bosumtwi-Sam, said the government was doing everything possible to ensure that the country’s natural resources were exploited to the benefit of the people of Ghana.
She said the country was ready to partner countries with the right approaches to the exploitation of the resources with maximum respect to laid down rules.
The deputy minister said in the same direction, the government was also setting the pace to ensure that the right environment was created for investors.
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