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Unstable oil prices affecting petroleum downstream business, threatening jobs
The Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMC) has lamented the dire effects of unstable global oil prices on the operational sustainability of its members, which is also threatening jobs in the sector. According to Kweku Agyeman-Duah, the Association’s Chief...
NPP’s management of energy sector better than the NDC – Bawumia, Vice President
The ruling government, contrary to assertions of poor governance by its opposition, has insisted that it has performed incredibly better in the management of the economy, especially with regards to the petroleum sector. Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President and Head of...
Gas Aggregator role: ACEP insists Ghana Gas not fit
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy, ACEP, has responded comprehensively to a refutal by the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) to its “Analysis of the Proposal to Make Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) The National Gas Aggregator” published on 21st May ...
Ghana Gas unfit to be National Gas Aggregator – ACEP
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has warned government against consenting to the request of the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) to make it the National Gas Aggregator instead of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC). It offered that Ghana Gas'...
100-bed COVID-19 Treatment Facility ready by mid-June
Ghana is set to get its first Infectious Disease Isolation and Treatment Facility by the middle of June 2020, although Senyo Hosi, the Managing Trustee of the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, has said some GH¢7 million is still needed to finish the project. The...
Wissam Al Monthiry to take over from Kweku Awotwi as Tullow Ghana MD
Following the retirement of Kweku Awotwi from Tullow Ghana this June end, the company has appointed Wissam Al Monthiry as the new Managing Director. Kweku Awotwi is the first Managing Director of Tullow Ghana to be promoted to Executive Vice President of Tullow Oil...
Fuel smuggling ‘Dendeys’ to be clamped down – Maritime Authority
Large wooden vessels, commonly referred to as ‘Dendeys’ designed like fishing boats, are gaining disturbing prominence as smuggling vessels of petroleum products in a thriving illicit fuel trade along the Central and Western coastlines. With capacity to carry heavy...
US$50m Pokuase Bulk Supply Point 61% through
Construction of the US$50 million Bulk Supply Point at Pokuase is 61 per cent through, the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has reported. The project which began April 30, 2019, is scheduled to be handed over to the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and the...
ECG to end Ashanti Region ‘dumsor’
The usual power cuts in the Ashanti region is soon to cease as the Electricity Company of Ghana is exhausting considerable resources to resolve the region’s incessant power supply issues. To this end, the company is devoting GH¢44.7million to address the situation....
West African Gas Pipeline damage to blame for Dumsor – Terkper
Contrary to claims by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, that Ghana’s hitherto prolonged power crisis was due to internal causes, former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has said the problem was a result of damages to the West Africa Gas Pipeline. He said the...
