Vivo Energy Ghana, the Shell Licencee, has announced the biggest fuel portfolio launch ever in Ghana.
The entire new Shell fuels portfolio (Shell V-Power, Shell FuelSave Unleaded and Shell FuelSave Diesel) is now designed to enhance engine efficiency, as Shell’s new fuels contain exclusive Dynaflex Technology.
This new formulation helps clean...
A Regional Workshop on the validation of the ECOWAS Draft Petroleum Code opened in Accra on Wednesday morning at the Mensvic Grand Hotel.
This Workshop comes on the back of ECOWAS' initiative to provide the region with a regional petroleum code. This regional Code will enable Member States to attract...
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...
As part of its ongoing efforts to tackle child labour in the cocoa sector, Cargill has announced progress on measures and partnerships taken to reduce child labour incidences in cocoa farming communities of the world.
The company has been partnering cocoa-farming communities to identify, remediate and prevent child labour through...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has expressed concern over an amount of US$843million owed Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) by power utilities, lamenting that the situation denies the Ghana Petroleum Funds of much needed money for investment and development.
GNGC, the nation’s premier mid-stream gas business company, processes...
The upstream petroleum industry awarded contracts worth US$3.6billion to indigenous companies over the last three years, thereby deepening the local content policy.
The contracts were awarded between 2018 and 2021 by upstream petroleum exploration and production firms as part of efforts to increase local participation, says the Ghana Upstream Petroleum...
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...
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...
Solidaridad has partnered the Department of Cooperatives in Ghana to facilitate the establishment of a robust regional and national cooperative association to increase cocoa farmers’ participation in decision-making.
The partnership was formalised by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) during a brief ceremony at Solidaridad’s office in Accra.
This is against...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is assisting its counterpart in Sierra Leone, the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), to improve efficiency in regulating the petroleum downstream in that country.
A team, led by its Executive Chairman, Dr. Brima Baluwa Koroma, said they were here to share and learn experiences in terms...