Accra, Ghana//-Vivo Energy Ghana’s Managing Director (MD), Ben Hassan Ouattara has been adjudged the CEO of the Year for the Petroleum Sector at the just-ended fifth Ghana CEO Summit in Accra.
Category: Energy
Africa’s Energy Transition Dilemma
On the continent, oil majors Total, Shell and Eni have shifted their focus over to natural gas developments, but their renewable energy and carbon offset projects still make up a relatively small slice of their business.
ZEN Petroleum Sets Ambitious Target, Wants To End 2021 with 50 Fuel Retail Outlets
Accra, Ghana//-ZEN Petroleum, a wholly owned Ghanaian Oil Marketing Company (OMC), has disclosed that it would end the year 2021 with 50 fuel retail outlets stations across the length and breadth of the country.
ECG Releases Another ‘Dumsor’ Timetable
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) today published another schedule for the disruption in power supply in parts of the Greater Accra Region.
Ghana: $8.4bn Petroleum Revenues Hang in the Balance
Ghana’s government stands to rake in $8.4billion revenue from the proposed unitisation or merger of the Sankofa and Afina fields; but the continued delay in the process puts such huge revenues at risk, especially in COVID-19 times such as these, the energy think-tank Institute for Energy Security (IES) has said.
IES MarketScan: A Year On, Why Hasn’t ENI and Springfield Unitized
In April 2020, the then Energy Minister John Peter Amewu wrote to the subsidiary of the Italian oil major Eni Ghana Exploration and Production Limited (ENI), and Springfield Exploration and Production Limited (Springfield) a subsidiary of Springfield Group, directing them to execute a Unitization and Unit Operating Agreement (UUOA).
Ghana: ZEN Petroleum Gives Facelift to Odorkor Divisional Police Headquarters
Accra, Ghana//-ZEN Petroleum, a wholly owned Ghanaian Oil Marketing Company (OMC), has given a facelift to the Odorkor Division Police Headquarters in the Greater Accra Region.
Egypt-Ethiopia: ‘Dam of Discord’ Continues to Pressure Relations
The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile tributary has been poisoning the atmosphere between Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum for more than 10 years. The situation has escalated to the point where a military conflict can no longer be easily dismissed.
Oil Prices Rebound As Global Oil Glut Drains
Oil prices rebounded on Friday after a midweek selloff. Neither the bullish nor bearish narratives are taking hold at the moment, and Brent crude is trading in the upper-$60s.
Ghana: LPG Marketers Fear Losing GH¢60m Investment
A GH¢60million investment by the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketing Companies (LPGMCs) Association into building about 100 LPG retail outlets before the 2017 Atomic Junction accident in Accra is at risk of going down the drain.