Cultivation of poor planting materials and wrong cultural farming practices have been identified as major challenges accounting for low cashew productivity among local farmers.
In recent times, cashew has been identified as a new ‘gold’ for farmers, especially among those in the savannah-transition zone. It has triggered massive cultivation across...
Ghana’s oil and gas industry has made steady progress in pushing for more local content in the sourcing of goods, services and labour. However, with the outbreak of COVID-19, the industry is set to face major setbacks due to disruption caused by the Coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in...
An application filed by operator of Ghana’s Sankofa oil field, ENI, and its partner, Vitol Upstream Ghana, at an Accra Commercial High Court, to quash an order of 30 percent of revenue to be paid to the court registrar, has been described by the Supreme Court as having no...
To say this pandemic poses a threat of serious losses to the Petroleum Industry worldwide might not adequately capture the sheer numeric magnitude of the shortfall for this particular industry. We are talking about an industry where small change is spoken about in the billions, so you’d have to...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has refuted allegations made by the Member of Parliament for the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, that the authority is acting with impunity and engaging in an act of illegality.
Dr. Forson alleged that the NPA is illegally receiving revenues through the collection of...
With health and safety as a priority, Tullow Ghana has attained a remarkable drilling operation without lost time injury. Lost time injury (LTI) refers to any injury sustained by an employee that leads to loss in productivity, and delays in production.
Presently, the Tullow team have impressively clocked over 500...
Productivity is commonly defined as a ratio between the output volume and the volume of inputs. In other words, it measures how efficiently production inputs, such as labour and capital, are being used is an economy to produce a given level of output. Usually, increase in productivity in very...
Kuapa Kokoo, a cocoa farmers' co-operative organization, is to set up a coffee processing plant and coffee plaza at Ampabame and Daatano respectively in the Ejisu Juaben district of the Ashanti Region under its sustainable development programme, Managing Director  for the organization, Samuel Adimado, has revealed.
Mr. Adimado indicated that...
The year 2020 marks exactly 10 years of continuous power generation by Sunon Asogli Power Limited in Ghana. Owned by Shenzhen Energy Group of the People’s Republic of China with support from China Africa Development Fund (CADFUND), the company is not only the first successful Independent Power Producer (IPP)...
The Ghana Oil and Gas Service Providers Association (GOGSPA) has dragged Tullow Ghana Limited before the Accra High Court, Commercial Division, over alleged violation of local content laws.
The plaintiff is praying the court to halt the defendant from re-awarding any petroleum contract being executed by indigenous companies to foreign...