Ministry Of Petroleum Distributes 1,200 Gas Cylinders And Cook Stoves At Busunya in B/A

The Ministry of Petroleum has distributed 1,200 gas cylinders and cook stoves at Busunya in the Nkronza North district in the Brong Ahafo Region.

Sector Minister, Hon. Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah said government aims to provide cleaner, healthier and safer form of cooking fuel and ultimately to reduce the number of Ghanaians who die from Household Air Pollution (HAP) every year.

According to him, one way of that we can achieve this is to stop using solid fuel and accept the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for our household activities because LPG is proven to be clean, safe and efficient.

He disclosed that 13,000 cylinders, cook stoves and related accessories were distributed last year to households in the three Northern Regions, Central, Western and Brong Ahafo.

Hon. Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah explained that government expects in the process, to improve and increase access to LPG in rural areas from the current 3% in 2012 to 15% by the end of 2016.

"This year, the distribution was scaled up to 40,000 cylinders and cook stoves in eight districts. We hope to distribute additional 20,000 cylinders and cook stoves by the end of the year."

He said all these efforts are also aimed towards creating wealth and employment opportunities for Ghanaians to ensure that domestic LPG produced at the gas processing plant in Atuabo, benefits all Ghanaians.

"Government successfully, through its Ghana National Gas Company completed the Atuabo Gas Project which commenced commercial operations in April 2015 and was officially commissioned by His Excellency the President on September 16, 2015. The new Gas Processing Plant, aside from delivering over 100mmscf of lean gas per day for thermal plants to generate power is also currently producing 500 tons of LPG a day
for the domestic market."

"The people of Ghana are therefore well positioned to obtain regular supply of LPG from Atuabo in addition to the current imports and thereby prevent a situation where consumers of LGP are forced to return to the use of firewood because of the unavailability of the product on the market."

The Minister entreated each and every one using LPG to observe the basic safety precautions necessary to ensure optimum safety and security.

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