Olakunle Williams is 38 years old, trained as a lawyer, and has built Tetracore Energy Group into one of the largest gas trading operations in Nigeria in five years.
The company supplies more than 90 million standard cubic feet of gas per day to industrial users and supports over 300 megawatts of embedded and industrial power generation.
Revenue grew 240 percent in the most recent reporting period. Valuations have crossed into billion-dollar territory.
Now he is in Ghana.
Tetracore Gas Ghana, the group's local subsidiary, commissioned a $15 million compressed natural gas facility in Tema in early 2026. President Mahama attended the opening.
Initial capacity is 5.1 million standard cubic feet per day, with plans to double that within nine months. The facility is projected to cut carbon emissions by approximately 1,347 metric tonnes daily.
The Tema operation runs on what the industry calls a virtual pipeline. Instead of building fixed gas infrastructure, Tetracore uses specialised trucks to deliver CNG to factories and logistics operations beyond the reach of physical pipeline networks.
The model avoids the capital cost and regulatory timeline of a pipeline build. It also means Tetracore can serve industrial clients in locations that Ghana's existing gas infrastructure does not reach.
The Nigerian base
Tetracore operates through a group structure with distinct subsidiaries: Tetracore Petroleum Development Company for upstream, Tetracore Gas Company for trading, Tetracore Power Company as an independent power producer, and Tetracore CNG Solutions for the virtual pipeline business. The group also has entities in Equatorial Guinea.
Williams holds a joint venture with NNPC Gas Marketing Limited, Nigeria's state gas marketing arm, and is a registered shipper on the West Africa Gas Pipeline. The WAGP registration is what gives Tetracore the legal framework to move gas across borders in the ECOWAS corridor. The Tema facility is the first commercial deployment of that cross-border capability.
Williams received the Energy Icon of the Year award in 2025, alongside the Nigeria Domestic Gas Ambassador award and the Innovative Gas Company of the Year honour.
What to watch
The $15 million Tema investment is a proof of concept.
If Tetracore can demonstrate that CNG delivery by truck is commercially viable for Ghanaian industry at a competitive price to diesel and LPG, the expansion case writes itself. The capacity doubling within nine months will be the first test.
The broader signal is a Nigerian energy company building physical infrastructure in Ghana, funded by private capital, at a moment when most cross-border investment in the ECOWAS corridor is still running through development banks and sovereign agreements.
