The Chinese-built gas processing plant at Atuabo, some 218 km west of Ghana's capital Accra, is a critical piece of infrastructure to aid the country's economic transformation, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said on Aug. 9 .

Speaking during a visit to the multi-million-dollar project constructed by Sinopec, China's largest oil refiner, and funded by the China Development Bank, President Akufo-Addo said so much of the country's future was bound up with the plant.