Category: Oil And Gas
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AGM Petroleum Ghana relinquishes South Deep Water Tano block
AGM Petroleum Ghana Limited (AGM) has decided to quit the South Deep Water Tano (SDWT) block to after considering all options. The move comes as the Energy Ministry issued a final deadline to Aker Energy to submit its Plan of Development The SDWT block is located in ultra-deep waters and requires substantial investments to proceed…
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IES raises doubts on claimant to 600,000 barrels Russian oil
The Institute for Energy Security (IES) has raised doubts over the claimant to the 600,000 barrels of Oil that arrived in Ghana on Friday from Russia. A release by the IES indicated that the consignment aboard the vessel MT Theseus is being stashed in Ghana as the pool of buyers shrinks after Russia was blacklisted…
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Fuel prices likely to drop in March – COPEC
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has predicted that fuel prices are likely to see a decline in the first pricing window of March 2023. According to COPEC, prices of both petrol and diesel have all declined marginally within the period while crude price has also minimally dropped from $82.99/barrel to $82.48/barrel (-0.61%). With the…
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We’ll keenly monitor every step in ‘Gold4Oil’ chain – Opoku Prempeh assures
Energy Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has assured that his ministry will keenly monitor every step in the Gold for Oil programme value chain from the ship that brings the oil, through delivery to the BDCs, to the OMCs and to the pumps. This, according to Dr Opoku Prempeh will ensure that the purposes for…
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Gold-for-oil: Govt spent $40m on first consignment – NPA
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that the initial 40,000 tonnes of diesel that arrived in January under the Gold-for-oil policy were valued at US$40 million. The clarification by the NPA comes after several calls by industry experts including the Institute of Energy Securities for the government to provide details on how much it…
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Come clean on gold-for-oil ‘fiasco’ – COPEC to govt
The Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC), Duncan Amoah, is charging government to spell out the nitty-gritty of the gold-for-oil policy to Ghanaians. He said the policy seems dead on arrival because the oil delivered seems not to have any impact on pump prices as they keep increasing. His call comes…
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Ghana paid cash for 40,000 tons of oil instead of gold – Egyapa Mercer confirms
The deputy Energy Minister, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has confirmed that the initial consignment of 40,000 tons of oil brought into the country under the Gold-for-oil policy was purchased with cash instead of gold. His disclosure comes after several calls by Industry experts such as the Institute of Energy Securities and COPEC for the government to…
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Gold for oil policy will reduce pressure on forex – Bawumia
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is confident that the gold for oil policy will reduce the pressure on forex and also present the country with cheaper fuel. The government took delivery of 40,000 metric tons of the first consignment of the gold for oil deal on Monday. Many have, however, raised concerns about the…
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GNPC exploring hydrocarbon prospectivity of Ghana’s Voltaian basin
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) is currently exploring the hydrocarbon prospectivity of Ghana’s onshore sedimentary basin (Voltaian basin). The prosectivity exploration is being conducted under a Reconnaissance license through a mix of geophysical, geological and geochemical techniques. According to the CEO of GNPC Opoku Awheneeh Danquah, the Corporation is looking forward to “crown our efforts…
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COPEC raises concerns over ‘high rates’ charged by major OMCS
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has expressed concern over what it describes as overcharging by the three major Oil Marketing Companies in the country. According to COPEC per data available to it for the first pricing window of the month, Petrol should retail at GHS 10.59 per litre and Diesel at GHS12.84 a…