CEO of PHDC Dr Toni Aubynn terminates appointments of staff due for confirmation
PHDC employed the three officers in October 2024 and they were due for confirmation at the end of March 2025 after completing their probation
OThe newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Petroleum Hub Development Corporation (PHDC), Dr. Toni Aubynn, has terminated the appointments of three staff members who were due for confirmation.
The three staff members were employed in October 2024 and were due for confirmation at the end of March 2025 after completing their 6-month probation.
The dismissed employees of the PHDC are the head of Communications and Corporate Affairs, the Business Manager at the office of the CEO, and the Deputy Director of Operations and Technical.
Dr Toni Aubynn, who assumed office as the CEO of PHDC about a month ago, has allegedly recruited other persons to replace the dismissed officers after their employments were terminated.
Dr Toni Aubynn held a meeting with the staff of PHDC when he assumed office a few weeks ago. At the meeting with both management and staff of the corporation, Aubynn underscored the importance of teamwork in achieving PHDC’s ambitious goals.
“Collaboration and unity are fundamental to our success. Together, we will elevate this institution to new heights and solidify Ghana’s position as a leading petroleum hub in West Africa,” Dr Toni Aubynn reportedly stated.
The PHDC
The objective of the PHDC is to realise a long-standing dream of making it possible for Africa to establish an integrated petroleum industry that will enable the continent to better exploit and realise optimal returns from the entire value chain of its rich oil and gas resources. President Akufo-Addo also sees this as being in line with the African Continental Free Trade Area project.
Industry players view the PHDC project as timely, given that the emerging global energy transition phenomenon requires oil-rich countries such as Ghana to look beyond the mere production and sale of crude oil and gas for fuel while remaining dependent on value-added exports abroad.
For instance, Ghana has yet to monetize its gas or oil resources as feedstock for a range of by-products, including plastics, fertilizers, and industrial chemicals.
The PHDC policy document outlines the president’s vision for the hub as the primary tool to develop a modern, diversified, efficient, and financially sustainable energy economy, ensuring that all Ghanaian homes and industries have access to an adequate, reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable energy supply.
This will enable the people of Ghana to meet their social and economic needs and support the national agenda for accelerated growth and industrialization in a rapidly integrating Africa.
The project
At the 48th meeting of the cabinet on 14 February 2019, the then energy minister, John Peter Amewu, received approval to launch the implementation of the master plan for developing a petroleum hub in the Western Region.
If the master plan is implemented, the overall value of the petroleum hub, when fully realized, will be in the range of US$60 billion.
The entire multibillion-dollar project, although facilitated by the Government of Ghana, is designed to be based solely on private sector funding, attracting investors across the entire petroleum value chain.
West Africa’s first integrated oil and gas infrastructure will be established on a 20,000-acre piece of land, known as the Domunli enclave, in the Jomoro Municipality of the Western Region.
At its peak, it can house three refineries, each with a minimum capacity of 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), together with five petrochemical plants, jetties, and port infrastructure, 10 million cubic meters of storage tanks, gas infrastructure, and ancillary facilities.
The role of the government, besides setting up the institution to drive the project, is to provide land, off-site infrastructure, tax incentives, and other amenities to support the project. The project will be implemented in three phases over the coming decade.
Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra
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