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An Accra circuit court has convicted three persons for diverting premix fuel meant for fishermen at Chorkor in Accra. Benjamin Nii Quaye, Paul Dogba and Emmanuel Kubi, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy and discharging petroleum into a container (drums) instead of motorbike tanks. However, the court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh deferred the sentence […]

A relatively unknown group in the Niger Delta is threatening to stop production at oil facilities of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in the area, saying that a so-called ‘Operation Zero Barrels’ would begin at “any time from 00hrs on Wednesday, June 20.” The group, Niger Delta Activists Forum (NDAF), says that it represents

The U.S-led coalition fighting Islamic State has killed the leader of the militants responsible for its oil and gas smuggling operations, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials said on Tuesday. Abu Khattab al-Iraqi, the leader of ISIS’s oil network who managed revenue generation through the illicit sale of oil and gas, was killed

IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil and its partners have achieved an eighth deepwater oil discovery in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. The Longtail-1 exploration well, spudded by the drillship Stena Carron late last month in 6,365 ft (1,940 m) of water in the southeastern part of the block, penetrated around 256 ft (78 m) of good-quality,

Aker BP has been given a permission by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to drill three wells in the North Sea. The company will use the Maersk Intrepid jack-up drilling rig to drill production wells 25/10-16 S, 25/10-16 A, and 25/10-16, after it completes drilling production wells on the Martin Linge field in the northern part

The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is expected to shut down due to lack of crude oil which serves as raw material for the refinery. Highly-placed sources at TOR told Class News on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 that the situation is as a result of TOR’s inability to raise letters of credit to import crude oil

As oil prices continue to fall, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a draw of 3.016 million barrels in crude oil inventories for the week ending June 15, compared to analyst expectations that this week would see a draw in crude oil inventories of 1.898 million barrels. Last week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a

The Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Ben Boakye has told Citi Business News petroleum prices at the pumps will not experience any significant drop in the coming weeks, even though crude oil price continues to drop on the international market. According to him, a continuous depreciation of the cedi against the

Today can report that the Isaac Owusu-led Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is seriously facing financial challenges as the company had in the past few months been struggling to pay salaries and allowances of its workers. The situation, Today gathered, if not addressed with a sense of urgency, will soon see workers of the nation’s only refinery lay down their

Deputy Minister of Energy in charge of Petroleum, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has defended calls for the setting up a special authority to oversee the management of Ghana’s Petroleum Hub project. Dr. Amin believes a dedicated authority will among other things facilitate the raising of the needed funds to develop the petroleum hub. The hub is expected