Category: Oil And Gas
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Ghana Gas restricts access to ‘demonstrating’ staff of Atuabo gas facility
Citi Business News is learning that workers of the Ghana Gas Company Limited, who demonstrated against poor working conditions at the Atuabo gas processing plant, have been restricted access to the facility. The aggrieved workers last Friday, demonstrated against the management for what they say is management’s failure to heed their plea. The workers have…
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Plant ‘shut down’ not to impact power supply hugely – Ghana Gas
The Ghana Gas Company Limited has ruled out any significant impact of its ten day shutdown of the Atuabo gas processing plant, on the country’s power supply, for the period. The company is expected to shut down the facility from Wednesday, August 31, 2016; for routine maintenance. A statement on the exercise indicated that the…
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Ghana Gas workers to meet management over grievances
Aggrieved workers of the Atuabo gas processing plant are scheduled to meet management of the Ghana gas company, this week, over their concerns for better conditions of work. The meeting is to find a solution to what the workers describe as the failure by management to heed their demands as the current working environment poses…
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Claims by Ghana Gas workers are flawed – Alfred Ogbarmey
The Ghana Gas Company Limited has described as flawed, claims by workers of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant over poor conditions of service. Though the company admits some of the concerns of the workers are genuine, majority of the issues raised against the management are illegitimate. “I have heard some if the issues that they’ve…
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Ghana Gas workers protest poor working conditions
Workers at the Atuabo Gas Processing plant of the Ghana Gas Company Limited, protesting against their poor working conditions have vowed not to rescind their decision until their issues are addressed. The workers who form the local union of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union today (Friday), demonstrated against what they say is a…
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Local participation in petroleum industry hits $221m in first half of 2016
The volume of contract awarded to Ghanaians in the Petroleum and Gas Industry from January to June this year has hit 221 million dollars. The figure is an improvement on previous years which was about half under same period of review. Speaking to Citi Business News, the Minister of Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah attributed…
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Govt is careful on overestimating revenue from TEN- Terkper
The Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has stated that government is being careful in projecting revenue from the Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme (TEN) field due to uncertainties in the prices of crude oil. Prior to oil production in Ghana’s first oil field, Jubilee project, government pegged full capacity at over 90,000 barrels per day but technical hitches hindered…
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Only residential users should pay energy sector levies – Tony O. Gyasi
A former President of the Association of Ghana Industries [AGI], Tony Oteng Gyasi, is impressing on government to limit the imposition of the energy sector levies to residential users of petroleum products only. According to him, the imposition of the taxes on all categories of petroleum users (both industrial and domestic), is to the disadvantage…
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Western region chiefs demand over 20% oil revenue allocation
Chiefs in the Western region have renewed calls for increased allocation of the oil revenue to the region. They have expressed grave concern over what they say is the continuous disadvantage of the region despite it being home to the commercial exploration of the country’s hydro carbon resources. The calls follow the official commissioning of…
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Mahama commissions FPSO Atta Mills [Photos]
President John Dramani Mahama today [Thursday], turned on the production valve on the Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO), John Evans Atta Mills, to officially commence production of oil in commercial quantities at the Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) Fields. The ceremony was held offshore on the FPSO as the President also opened a…