A del­e­ga­tion from Ghana's par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee for oil, gas and min­ing is cur­rent­ly in T&T to seek guid­ance and un­der­stand­ing on this coun­try's ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion bill.

There is a new ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion bill be­fore the Par­lia­ment in Ghana to re­place the 1980s vin­tage Act and the com­mit­tee is re­view­ing the Bill be­fore it goes be­fore Ghana's Par­lia­ment.

They have met with En­er­gy Min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine at his of­fices Lev­el 26, Tow­er C In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Cen­tre, Port-of-Spain and plan to vis­it the State in­sti­tu­tions that man­age or are man­aged by that min­istry to get a sense of the im­por­tant is­sues to fo­cus on in their own leg­is­la­tion. They are in­ter­est­ed in meet­ing the reg­u­la­tors and un­der­stand­ing some of the is­sues of their leg­is­la­tion, as well as the roles and ex­pe­ri­ences of lo­cal reg­u­la­tors and State com­pa­nies.

Dur­ing his meet­ing with the del­e­ga­tion, Ram­nar­ine un­der­scored the im­por­tant re­la­tion­ship be­tween T&T and Ghana on en­er­gy, cit­ing his­tor­i­cal re­la­tions. He said he looked for­ward to "our con­tin­ued work to­geth­er in the fu­ture."