{"id":461496,"date":"2018-02-05T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/05\/energy-minister-being-ill-advised-on-tor-staff\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:56:13","slug":"energy-minister-being-ill-advised-on-tor-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/05\/energy-minister-being-ill-advised-on-tor-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy minister being ill-advised on TOR &#8211; Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-top bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1 bsac-hide-on-phone bsac-hide-on-tablet-portrait bsac-hide-on-tablet-landscape bsac-hide-on-desktop\">\n<div id=\"bsac-277964-1529884534\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image  bsac-hide-on-desktop bsac-hide-on-tablet-portrait bsac-hide-on-tablet-landscape bsac-hide-on-phone\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"277964\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-banner-web-renault.jpg\" alt=\"Renault\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aggrieved workers of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) are expected to meet their management today (Monday February 5) over plans to build a new refinery.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko last week announced that government in partnership with the private sector would soon build a new oil refinery at the cost of $4billion.<\/p>\n<p>The new refinery is expected to produce about 150,000 barrels of oil per day \u2013 eight times the current production of the TOR.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure, which came in the wake of some bad blood between energy think-tank, Institute for Energy Security (IES) and the management of TOR court the displeasure of the workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chairman of the General Transport, Petroleum, and Chemical Workers Union at TOR, John Elton Botwey, the announcement by the Energy Minister was in bad faith as TOR has a development plan towards expanding the current refinery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody has an idea what the Minister really wants to do,\u201d he stated noting that whoever was technically advising him has not done a good job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause\u2026as it stands TOR itself has a development plan that\u2019s going to see to it for an expansion and it is going to be the 160,000 barrels he was craving. And apparently, if he says he is going to build a new TOR I don\u2019t know what is going to happen to the old TOR,\u201d he told Starr News.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, TOR requested for $67.7 million for plant stabilisation and enhancement projects. In response, the government in 2012 released $30 million, which was used to complete the first phase of plant stabilisation and enhancement projects on the crude distillation and residual fluid catalytic cracking units.<\/p>\n<p>TOR has completed the first phase of plant stabilisation and enhancement projects on the crude distillation and residual fluid catalytic cracking units at a cost of $30 million.\u00a0With 45,000 barrels per day capacity, TOR should be able to refine over 16 million (16,425,000) barrels of crude oil annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Ghana\/Starrfmonline.com\/103.5FM<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268363-1139435356\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268363\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Telesol-ad.jpg\" alt=\"Homepage Header Ad\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1136575713042949\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>\n\t\t\t(function () {<\/p>\n<p>    function appendFbScript() {\n        var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk',\n            fjs = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];<\/p>\n<p>        if (document.getElementById(id)) return;\n        js = document.createElement('script');\n        js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=298184353996497&version=v2.0\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);<\/p>\n<p>        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                appId: '298184353996497',\n                xfbml: true,\n                version: 'v2.0'\n            });\n            FB.Event.subscribe('comment.create', function (comment_data) {\n                console.log(comment_data);\n                update_comments_count();\n            });\n            FB.Event.subscribe('comment.remove', function (comment_data) {\n                update_comments_count();\n            });<\/p>\n<p>            function update_comments_count(comment_data, comment_action) {\n                jQuery.ajax({\n                        type: 'GET',\n                        dataType: 'json',\n                        url: 'http:\/\/starrfmonline.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php',\n                        data: {\n                            action: 'clear_better_facebook_comments',\n                            post_id: '283685'\n                        },\n                        success: function (data) {\n                            \/\/ todo sync comments count here! data have the counts\n                        },\n                        error: function (i, b) {\n                            \/\/ todo\n                        }\n                    }\n                )\n            };\n        };<\/p>\n<p>        appendFbScript();\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    appendFbScript();<\/p>\n<p>})();\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggrieved workers of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) are expected to meet their management today (Monday February 5) over plans to build a new refinery. The Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko last week announced that government in partnership with the private sector would soon build a new oil refinery at the cost of $4billion. 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