… Providing vital power infrastructure to meet dev.’s needs
Very few people across the world expected to begin the year 2020 locked up in their homes, and faced with restrictions on some of their social freedoms. While many heard the news about the soaring coronavirus infections in China in December...
So far, an estimated US$324million worth of drilling, acquisition and interpretation of seismic, geological and geophysics data projects have been postponed across the petroleum upstream sector, the National Petroleum Commission has said as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the country’s oil and gas industry.
Among them is...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) bumped up its 2020 oil demand forecast last week Friday but warned that the spread of COVID-19 posed a risk to the outlook.
The Paris-based IEA raised its forecast to 92.1 million barrels per day (bpd), up 400,000 bpd from its outlook last month, citing...
Renewable energy offers a clean and sustainable future for Ghana and Africa in a post COVID-19 world, Raymond Nuworkpor, Research and Policy Analyst at the Institute for Energy Security (IES), has said.
“It is the resilience of renewables to the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the falling cost of power generation...
The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) was fumigated and disinfected by Dansworld Services Limited in a bid to kill all viruses and bacteria that might be present in their premises. The fumigation exercise was carried out in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which some staff members...
GOIL Company in Ghana (GOIL), in partnership with the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), has launched the gh-link card on GOIL’s Point of Sale (POS) devices for use across the country.
With this development, all gh-link cards used mainly by banks and other financial institutions can now be...
The Management of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has announced that staff of its Tema Office would immediately undergo COVID-19 testing, as a precautionary measure, after a staff tested positive for COVID-19.
According to the Company, while a comprehensive contact tracing process has also begun in order to ensure appropriate...
With new data showing that global carbon emissions are rebounding more quickly than expected after coronavirus lockdowns are eased, questions are being asked about the prospects for renewable energy projects in emerging markets.Â
Just as the pandemic has had an considerable impact on the global economy, travel restrictions and the suspension of...
We are now at a crossroads in Libya where a military solution is temporarily off the table, as factions and their external allies wrangle over oil revenues--the distribution of which will now decide when the pumps are turned back on and force majeure lifted.
For the first time in seven...
