Zeal Environmental to ensure clean shores
The Chief Executive of Zeal Environmental Technologies (ZETL), Mr Kweku Ennin, has expressed the company’s readiness to promptly respond to any form of oil spill to maintain the beauty of the country’s coastlines.
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During a tour of the ZETL waste transfer station at Nyankrom in the Shama District of the Western Region by the board of Petroleum Commission (PC), he said the company had invested in an equipped mobile van in readiness for any unexpected oil spillage.
The oil spill response mobile truck is equipped with suck-booms, absorbing pads, personal protective equipment, storage tank, pumps and skimmers.
“It is the wish of every international oil company to operate and maintain a clean environmental sheet wherever they find themselves, we as a waste management firm understand the needs of the industry in that direction,” he said.
The CEO said in the event of any disaster, the mobile facility would be deployed to clean up the shoreline without any difficulty and the waste brought to the transfer station at Shama for treatment.
Mr Ennin said Zeal had invested in the equipment and trained hundreds in the communities along the coast, therefore, in the event of any form of spill “we are more than ready to clean the coastline”.
In support of this proactive move, Mr Ennin appealed to the PC to ensure some form of retainer with the oil companies. “As an indigenous company, we see the need to support the industry, the responsibly to manage the waste associated with the oil operations as a call to duty.”
“As a company managing offshore upstream waste, we don’t have to wait for any spill before we tool, that is why we invested in the equipment now,” he said.
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Mr Ennin said aside the equipment; operators had been trained and capable hands and communities tutored on how to identify any change in terms of hydrocarbon along the coast.
The Chief Executive of the commission, Mr Theo Ahwireng, commended Zeal and other local companies for the efforts in tooling and noted that the commission found it necessary to visit and have full understanding of what the needs of the local operators were.
He said as a regulator, it was important to draw closer and work towards the set goals of the industry and that the commission’s tour of various Ghanaian operators in the industry had showed that local content in the oil industry needed to be promoted.