For the fourth consecutive year the Ghana Oil and Gas Awards (GOGA) has rewarded the best of industry players from the upstream, midstream and downstream to allied and supply chain service providers. At a glitzy event at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, more than 50 individuals and organisations were...
Aker Energy Ghana Limited has reaffirmed its commitment to finding a solution that will allow for the commencement of a phased development of the Pecan field offshore Ghana. “In a time when most other E&P companies are putting development projects on the shelf due to the COVID-19 situation and historic...
Brent reaches highest in five years Ghana averagely imports more oil that it exports Ghana will likely hedge its oil imports under a new risk management strategy to keep fiscal consolidation on track as global crude prices recover, a finance ministry source told Reuters on Monday. Brent crude futures hit...
Consumers will soon have to pay more than the current average pump price of GH¢4.01 per litre for fuel, the Institute of Energy Security (IES) has predicted, citing a surge in prices on the international market. The energy think-tank believes that the national average price of Gh¢4.01 per litre for...
Christine Churcher, a former Minister of state under President Kufuor’s administration, has been appointed board chair of the Ghana National Gas Company. At a ceremony in Accra to officially inaugurate the nine-member board, the Chairperson, thanked the President for the confidence reposed in them and promised the board will deliver...
The shortage of premix fuel in communities within the South Dayi constituency in the Volta Region, has resulted in untold economic hardship for the people of the area, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Member of Parliament for the area, has revealed. According to him, fishermen are unable to go about their daily business...
A team of officers from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is in the Central Region visiting selected communities as part of a nationwide door-to-door LPG safety campaign. The team, from the Corporate Affairs Division, visited several eateries in the Mankessim, Komenda and Cape Coast areas, where vendors were educated on...
Four major oil-funded projects that were listed as completed in the Northern, Upper West and Brong Ahafo Regions cannot be traced, Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (KITE) has revealed after a visit to proposed oil-funded project sites. The four missing projects were: a 3-unit classroom block at Soo...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is set to introduce some taxes and other charges on Marine Gas Oil (GMO) operations in the country, Hassan Tampuli - CEO of the NPA, has disclosed. The move, he noted, is aimed at curbing some illegalities the Authority has observed in the petroleum downstream...
As part of its sustainability efforts focused on the environment, Vivo Energy Ghana, the company that markets and distributes Shell branded fuels and lubricants has entered into partnership with Environment 360, a Non-Governmental Organisation to roll-out a comprehensive recycling programme dubbed CyClean targeted at basic schools in the James...