The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Yinson Production West Africa Limited (Yinson), and the Petroleum Commission (PC) have commissioned the Net-Zero Carbon Emission Lab (NCEL), Ghana’s first specialized centre devoted to clinical carbon size, emissions modelling, complicated decarbonisation analysis and industry-focused coaching.

The lab, located on the College of Engineering, paperwork a part of the Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Project (NCEP), a five-year analysis and entrepreneur partnership signed on 12 June 2025 to harmonise Ghana’s greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions information right into a unmarried interactive nationwide map and habits a complete carbon-intensity overview of the oil and gasoline plan.

Yinson funded the established order of the power with an returns of about US$350,000, with the primary tranche launched in an instant after the inception file and implementation expansion have been submitted.

Prof. Kwabena Biritwum Nyarko, Provost of the College of Engineering, stated the initiative displays the University’s dedication to generating industry-ready graduates whilst contributing clinical strategy to nationwide entrepreneur.

“Our work with industry is very relevant. We design our curriculum to respond to the needs of industry. They provide opportunities for internships and vacation training, ensuring our students are ready for the jobs of today and tomorrow,” he stated.
“We also work with them in innovation and entrepreneurship, so students can create jobs when they finish.”

Representing the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Asare-Nkansah stated the NCEL addresses a vital nationwide hole: the absence of a consolidated, scientifically tough dataset at the nation’s present emissions profile.

“Although Ghana is committed under the Paris Agreement to decarbonisation and net-zero emissions, we lack a unified emissions baseline. The NCEL is a clear demonstration of commitment to collaboration and knowledge-transfer partnerships between academia and industry,” he stated.

He added that the assignment will fortify evidence-based local weather coverage, beef up tracking capacity and suggest mitigation methods for {industry}, particularly the oil and gasoline plan.

Naa Opoku-Agyeman, Managing Director of Yinson Ghana, stated the trade perspectives the assignment as a part of its long-term dedication to capability entrepreneur.

“We believe in the power of education to turn around fortunes. When we invest in scholarships and infrastructure, we look not only at the impact today but at how these resources will support future students,” she stated.

CEO of the Petroleum Commission, Victoria Emeafa Hardcastle, described the commissioning as “a transformative journey and a forward-looking commitment to sustainability, innovation and responsible resource development.”

The Principal Investigator of the assignment and Senior Lecturer within the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Dr. Yen Adams Sokama-Neuyam, said that the workforce stays firmly dedicated to handing over state-of-the-art analysis and high-level advisory services and products to fortify govt coverage and business tactic to advance nationwide local weather motion.

He famous that the assignment stands as an impressive testomony to the native oil and gasoline {industry}’s dedication to daring net-zero ambitions, demonstrated via strategic returns in in-country analysis and entrepreneur.

The NCEL homes an ultra-modern workspace that doubles as a coaching studio, with high-performance computing for AI-driven analytics and simulations, leading-edge analysis workstations, sensible presentation programs, energy-efficient infrastructure and enhanced safety programs to safeguard apparatus and assignment information.

When absolutely operational, the lab will serve as as a dual-purpose facility, a analysis hub and an {industry} coaching centre, and a residing laboratory for rising applied sciences together with Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) for oil and gasoline decarbonisation.

In simply six months, the assignment has assembled an interdisciplinary workforce, appointed a assignment supervisor and communications officer, recruited six funded MPhil scholars, and complicated stakeholder engagements throughout nationwide establishments.

Unlike conventional project-based labs that stall after seed accomplishment, NCEL is structured to develop into self-sustaining. NCEL will maintain its operations via a mixture of revenue-generating services and products, together with skilled coaching and certification, strategic advisory fortify, carbon credit score validation and verification, and specialized laboratory services and products.

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