Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has disclosed that Ghana will soon commence the construction of a 290-kilometre gas pipeline in the country.

The Bank of Ghana has taken steps to address the perennial shortage of dollars for the local petroleum sector, with the introduction of a foreign exchange forward auction for Bulk Oil Distributing Companies (BDCs).

Ghana is constructing a petroleum hub in a bid to facilitate relevant industrial services such as railways, roads, storage tanks, refineries, and air transportation, which will be established along the coast of the country’s Western Region province.