The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, has said it is important to support the Volta River Authority (VRA) with operational and maintenance experts at the Takoradi Thermal Plant.
British exploration firm Tullow Oil has discovered oil and natural gas deposits even as its Canadian partner Africa Oil also announced that it had discovered gas at another site in northern Kenya.
Private developers have encroached on the buffer zone created around the 110-kilometre multi-million dollar gas pipeline from the Atuabo Gas Processing site in the Ellembelle District to the Aboadze Thermal Plant in the Shama District in the Western Region.
Kosmos Energy, an oil company, has so far invested $3 billion in Ghana’s oil sector. It has also decided to invest additional $2 billion in the sector which will go a long way to offer more employment opportunities to the people.
The fifth Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA), Ghana Africa Conference, has ended with a call on the government to take advantage of the oil boom in the country to establish an all purpose university to focus on oil and gas.
The 5th training programme for 30 journalists working in the oil, gas and mining sectors drawn from Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania has opened in Kampala, Uganda.
A portion of an old dump site located on the main Ablekuma-Anyaa Highway that has since 2012 been put under preparation for a biogas project is now being converted into a gas filling station.
There is a looming controversy over which entity has the right to process gas from the country’s oil fields, as some of the oil companies which have discovered only gas deposits offshore insist they want to process before passing on to Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas).
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) is worried that Ghana's oil and gas industry may be exposed to international ridicule following the alleged forging of the signature of the Minister of Energy and Petroleum by an employee of Miura Petroleum, an oil firm claiming the right of first negotiation over the Offshore Cape Three Points South (OCTPS) block in Ghana.
The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Mr. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah will on Monday open a two-day Oil and Gas thematic Convention in Takoardi to help stakeholders identify emerging issues and opportunities for engagements to build a win-win relationship. among all stakeholders.
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has expressed worry about how contracts were being awarded to companies with no experience in oil at the Jubilee Oil Fields in Ghana.
The fifth Ghana Summit, an internationally recognised conference and exhibition opens in Accra from Tuesday April 8 to Thursday April 10 at the Accra International Conference Centre.
BY: Charles Benoni Okine / Graphic Business / Ghana
In spite of the awareness creation of the impact of telephone cable cuts in the country on communications, the incidence seems to be on the ascendency.
Subscriptions on tiGo, the mobile network operated by Millicom Ghana Limited shot up to 4,014,487 from 3,933,195, according to a Mobile Voice Market Share report for November 2013 released by the National Communications Authority (NCA).
A crucial facility Ghana should have installed ahead of her upstream oil and gas development and production phase was a shorebase facility to handle thousands of tonnes of logistics required to enhance industry efficiency.
Bharti Airtel plans to sell most of its transmitter towers in Africa in a process that could raise up to US$2 billion for the country's top telecom operator and help reduce its debt.
MTN Ghana has partnered the Ghana Multimedia Incubator Centre (GMIC) to create a platform for young entrepreneurs to nurture their own ideas of creating businesses within communities.
BY: Charles Benoni Okine / Graphic Business / Ghana
Kosmos Energy Ltd has announced that Tullow Oil plc, the operator of the Jubilee field, has provided a revised production forecast of 100,000 barrels of oil per day (Bopd) for the full year 2014.
