Justice Ohene-Akoto, an engineer and researcher, has been nominated for the innovation project of the year and the digitalisation project of the year at the Ghana Energy Awards 2021. The awards gala will take place on 19th November, 2021 in Accra under the theme, “Digitalised Energy Sector: The Key for...
The global nuclear power industry is growing and modernising rapidly Emerging economies are increasingly looking to nuclear to meet energy needs Many emerging nations are developing capacity, or will do so in coming years While some misgivings have been voiced, nuclear appears to be growing The ongoing UN Climate...
China has been playing an important role as Africa’s big investor. This can be attributed to the growing cooperation between China and Africa. The Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) was set up to build a solid material and physical foundation for the establishment of a China-African community with a...
Global oil production is slowly recovering towards pre-Covid-19 levels, but in West Africa the pandemic is set to leave lasting effects. This important region for sweet crude oil production faces numerous challenges as it strives to heal from the pandemic, including underinvestment, a lack of infill drilling at mature...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has said the rise in illicit fuel trade along some entry and exit points of the country, notably the Afloa border, has become a major concern, and a threat to the revenue mobilization efforts of the government. The Chief Executive of NPA, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid...
It was highly unique step forward in October 2019, during the first Russia-Africa Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi reaffirmed commitment to scale-up cooperation in various economic sectors and particularly expedite work on the special industrial zone and the construction of proposed four nuclear...
Demand to out-strip current dependable capacity of 4742MW by 2026 Peak demand to hit 4460MW, export to ECOWAS to rise to 28550GWh Takes 3-4yrs to build new plant The country risks a power generation deficit by 2026 if it fails to plan for new capacity now. Out of an...
As a result of the stringent measures instituted, the retail outlet failure rate has reduced drastically from 32% as at 2013 to 2.51% as at August, 2021,the Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has said. Among the key strategies adopted are the revision of operating...
…supports 117 Project Affected Persons with fishponds The Bui Power Authority (BPA) has supplied 39 fishing ponds to 117 people whose livelihoods were earlier affected due to construction of the Bui Hydroelectric Project. The 117 people were in 39 groups and opted for a Fish Raising module under the Authority’s...
ZEN Petroleum has participated in the 2021 edition of the Forecourttech Conference in Alicante, Spain, being the only Oil Marketing Company (OMC) operating in Ghana to have taken part in the conference. ZEN’s participation is a crucial step towards bolstering the international standards that have defined its operations and...