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A former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s national oil company, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Mr. Alex Mould, has called for a broad stakeholder consensus to give authority to the national oil company, to be a catalyst for deepening local content in the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors. Catalysing local content development has been […]

In its quest to ramp up oil production in the country, the government is taking steps to amend two petroleum laws to enable it to achieve that objective. The laws, the Exploration and Production Act, 2016 (Act 919) and the Petroleum Exploration and Production General Regulations, 2018 (L.I. 2359), are to be reviewed to give

The Fair-Trade Oil Share Ghana (FTOS-Gh) Campaign, under the auspices of the Centre For Natural Resources and Environmental Management (CNREM) and GhanaHero.Com, has issued a call for papers on Ghana’s petroleum and oil resources, including extraction and sales of oil on the world market beginning in 2010.   While final submissions will be selected by

Government says all companies in the oil and gas value chain will, before the end of this year be audited. It said, it is part of moves to check cash inflows and expenditure. Deputy Energy Minister, Dr Mohamed Amin Adam who disclosed this on the sidelines of the JoyBusiness Town Hall Meeting on Oil and

The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has cautioned that the ECOWAS region risks losing out on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 if the issue of low access to electricity is not resolved in the region immediately. In his view, the ECOWAS region is at a

Electrical Contractors Association in the West African nation, Ghana, have welcomed the decision by the Akufo-Addo-administration to terminate the concession agreement signed between the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Meralco-led Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited. In a press statement signed by the President of the Association Nana Addo Tetebo, it said: “We hereby

Lukoil, Russia’s second largest oil company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Equatorial Guinean government) at the Russia–Africa Summit Sochi. President of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov initialed the deal on behalf of his company while Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea Gabriel signed on behalf of

General Electric(GE) and Africa’s leading cement producer Dangote Cement Plc have signed an agreement for the deployment of GE’s Asset Performance Management (APM) digital solution to reduce unplanned downtime and enhance performance at its two cement plants in Obajana and Ibese, Nigeria. The project includes extending the current service agreement for an additional 50,000 operating

Some five young Ghanaians who were enrolled by the Petroleum Commission at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), one of North America’s leading technical institutes, to train as professional welders for Ghana’s booming oil and gas industry, are making steady progress in their studies. The students started the 10-month program in July 2019, and

The 5th edition of Africa Oil Governance Summit has opened in Accra, the capital of Ghana, West Africa. The Deputy Minister of Energy in-charge of Petroleum Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam opened the two-day summit, being organised by the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), and  under the theme: ‘Optimising Oil and Gas Resources in Africa: The